Union Leads in Vote at Ford Battery Plant

#CornellILR's @ianithacagreer.bsky.social provided context on unionization challenges facing the U.A.W. in the South in this @nytimes.com article: “The footprint has shifted from Michigan southward,” said Greer, who researches labor relations. “It’s a very challenging environment for the U.A.W.”

HAPPENING NOW: 📍Washington, DC

We are rallying in solidarity with our union brother and
@seiuca.bsky.social President David Huerta.

From Massachusetts to California, we call for his immediate release and for an end to ICE raids that are tearing our communities apart. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Albany Bails Out Our Unemployment Insurance Boat. Guess What? It Still Leaks. — Center for New York City Affairs The good news: Benefits will go up from disgracefully low levels. The bad news: The system’s underlying finances remain insecure and unfair.  

Latest on unemployment insurance in NY State. James Parrott on how workers will get an increase in benefits, employers will get a bailout, and the UI boat will still leak -- www.centernyc.org/urban-matter....

Commentary: New York must get serious about fixing Unemployment Insurance Proposals being floated by state leaders do nothing to tackle the root causes of the system’s insolvency and would soon lead to more debt.

Fixing unemployment insurance in US states can feel Sisyphean at times. But maybe this year New York State will get serious about fixing its inadequate and regressive tax structure, which has led to a freeze in benefits levels since 2019. Here's my op ed --

www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti....

Tesla’s ‘American-made’ cars won’t get hit as hard by the auto tariffs | CNN Business Just this week, Tesla boasted as anxieties swirled over tariffs on automobiles.

Tariffs are "a boon to fiercely anti-union Tesla, which will benefit from the disarray of competitors...who need time to rethink production strategies and retool factories. Any new automotive jobs will be overwhelmingly nonunion,” said @ianithacagreer.bsky.social. www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/c...

Earlier this year (gosh, doesn't time fly) we celebrated the official launch of Work-Net International and we're pleased to announce that videos from the launch, including our 2 panel discussions, are now available: www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk/news/work-ne...

Student Project: Examining Worker Misclassification in New York State’s Unemployment Insurance System (Video) This student-led video examines worker misclassification in New York State’s unemployment insurance (UI) system. Employees treated by their employers as independent contractors, often in violation of ...

Worker misclassification is costing law abiding employers many millions and making it very difficult for workers to get unemployment benefits. See the short video by my @cornellilr.bsky.social students, and learn about proposed legislation in NY State to fix it! www.ilr.cornell.edu/ithaca-co-la...

Student Project: Examining Unemployment Insurance Overpayments in New York State (Video) This student-led video examines unemployment insurance overpayments in New York State. Through conversations with past unemployment benefits claimants, this video shows how strict policing of fault an...

New short video from @cornellilr.bsky.social students and the UI coalition about how unemployed people are unjustly accused of fraud, and legislation to reduce the punitiveness of the system in NY State. www.ilr.cornell.edu/ithaca-co-la...

In Ithaca - Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) workers represented by @uaw.org Region 9 have been negotiating for a fair contract for three weeks without reaching an agreement with management.

One worker tells me a strike is “very feasible” at this point.

@ithacatimes.bsky.social

A panel of six people sitting at the front of a lecture hall.

Professor Duncan Ivison speaking at the front of a lecture hall.

A group photo featuring representatives from 26 of WorkNet's founding institutions.

Earlier this week, @workequalities.bsky.social, alongside founding member institutes from around the world, proudly celebrated the launch of WorkNet International – a pioneering global network committed to advancing research on work and employment.

@worknetint.bsky.social

Pictures shared on a community Facebook group of what eye witnesses assume are ICE agents outside the Tompkins County Department of Social Services. Taken ~ 1 hr. ago.

🙏🙏Really enjoyed reading the review and discussing w Harry. Hopefully the book will be available open access some point soon

Not easy to get so many people together for a photo, but we’re thrilled so many of our Work-Net representatives could be together for the official launch at the @workequalities.bsky.social Fairness at Work conference! A huge thank you to everyone who supported us and we can’t wait to get started!

Just got home from Manchester, where I attended the edifying and intellectually stimulating launch of @worknetint.bsky.social

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New issue of Organization, featuring my review of @ianithacagreer.bsky.social & @charlesumney.bsky.social's excellent book "Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy" out now with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@charlesumney.bsky.social While rereading our book for the ir theory phd seminar, I am experiencing states of outrage I had forgotten about.

I set up a ‘labor research and policy’ starter pack. It’s almost at the 150 person capacity… but let me know if I should add you to a ‘part 2’ list… go.bsky.app/55FK3m7

Taramasalata shortage is not due to a lack of cod roe but a lack of decent pay for workers Workers at a factory in Spalding which produces, amongst other things, taramasalata for most supermarkets have been on strike for six weeks over pay. The workers, members of Unite, are being paid a…

kmflett.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/t...

The digital version of my new book Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers & the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics, co-authored with @stephross.bsky.social, is now available from @ubcpress.bsky.social.

You can also download & read the introductory chapter for free!

www.ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears

📽️Cinema is a passion of mine, so I was happy that
Sociologia del Lavoro asked Riccardo Chesta and me to write the first piece for their new section Taccuino. We focus on a legend, Ken Loach, and the relationship between his cinema and sociology of work
journals.francoangeli.it/index.php/sl...

update from the bad place (my former employer)

Welcoming @aslefunion.bsky.social and @usdawunion.bsky.social, to bring our trade union starter pack up to 14.
bsky.app/starter-pack...

TCAT Workers Prepare to Negotiate a New Contract YouTube video by Cornell ILR

Voices of public transportation workers in Ithaca going into collective bargaining, UAW Local 2300 members interviewed by ILR students - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9l...

As this is really helping me getting a network, here are some people doing research on industrial relations and trade unions

Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR

A good bunch of Unions and other associated Labor orgs/unionists have joined in the last day or so. Been able to add more to the American Labor Starter Pack I've got going.

Attention #tradeunion Skywalkers!

Here's a second starter pack we've been curating: this time for the many accounts of trade unions and federations across Europe.
go.bsky.app/PB949GM

As before, share widely ... and comment below if you see we're missing some (highly likely!)