Opinion
BATEMAN | What It Is to Break a Strike
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Cornell’s vision of community is hollow and immoral. The strikers look to chart a different course; don’t get in their way.
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Job Insecurity and Inconsistent Working Conditions: Ithaca Construction Workers Navigate Local Industry
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Ithaca construction workers discuss struggles with job insecurity amidst labor struggles and extreme weather.
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Common Council Approves DPW Union Contract, Appoints New Fire Chief
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In its monthly meeting, Ithaca Common Council opened up floors for residents to voice their concerns and issues. Mayor Laura Lewis appointed a new fire chief, and the Common Council voted in favor of the new labor contract of public workers.
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Legal Clinics Offer Real World Practice for Cornell Law Students
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To supplement what they learn in the law school classroom with real-life experience, Cornell law students participate in courses, dubbed “clinics,” where students assist real clients with real legal problems.
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From Labor Stronghold to Right to Work, ILR Prof Dissects Walker’s Wisconsin Legacy
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In a Monday night event immediately preceding former Walker’s talk at Cornell, Prof. Lee Adler, labor relations, dissected how — in just eight years — one leader’s tenure turned a once hotbed for union activism into a state synonymous with organized labor’s most high-profile, decisive defeats.
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Former New York Times Reporter Steven Greenhouse Speaks on Donald Trump and Labor Rights
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Steven Greenhouse, a former reporter for The New York Times, an advocate for worker’s rights and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, gave a public lecture in Ives Hall Monday to discuss the future of labor in the United States. Students, professors, and faculty filled up all the seats in the lecture room, some even sitting on the stairs or forced to stand.