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Employee Assembly Debates Cornell Snow Day Policy
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“One of the issues is this macho, ‘you better come in to work’ thing that seems to be out there, and that has to be addressed.”
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“One of the issues is this macho, ‘you better come in to work’ thing that seems to be out there, and that has to be addressed.”
Administered by the Survey Research Institute, the survey covered nearly 5,000 non-academic staff, with a response rate of 68 percent.
The Cornell Employee Assembly unanimously voted to pass a resolution to declare its support for undocumented students under the Deferred Action of Children Arrivals program.
“In light of the current legal and political climate, I think you might see an uptake in international students,” he said, urging the office to use provisions that would provide confidentiality for students.
In 2016, the University received three reports of conflicts between pedestrians and motor vehicles, according to Brady. She stressed that these were just the reported conflicts and that many others go unreported.
COLA wants to ensure that Cornell is “the best labor school in the nation” and is “at the forefront of encouraging human rights for workers around the world,” the letter says.
The Collegetown Neighborhood Council held its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, in which speakers detailed Collegetown redevelopment, focusing on the Schwartz Center and the Maplewood Park Apartments.
“I am able to learn from my students, about the rapidly-evolving nature of trans-inclusion politics that they’re better at than me. It’s an inspiring and powerful moment, when I can listen and learn, by keeping students at the center.”
“I anticipate further action on this issue, both from the folks at the Cornell Organization for Labor Action who launched this campaign and the Cornell community at large,” Hanna said.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations kicked off its annual three-day Union Days this Wednesday, bringing together various union leaders to talk about this years topic, “Workers Without Borders.”
The event included a guest panel including Ben Norton, grad, of the Cornell Graduate Student Union, Alex Ivovic representing the University of Toronto Graduate Student Union, Scott Marsland of Cayuga Medical Center nurses and Patrick Quinn, Patricia Greenberg and Ruth Heller of Service Employees International Union Healthcare 1199 NE. Norton’s talk focused on his experience organizing students while in England and the difficulties international students face here at Cornell. “In England, I got involved with helping to organize people on campus to go and help protest against the British government as they increased university fees,” he said. “The experience has been very different in America. When I was in England, I was trying to get people to volunteer to get heckled by heavy-handed police.”
The labor issues in the U.S. are different than those in England, according to Norton.