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Browsing The Worker Institute by Title
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Revitalizing Labor In Today's World Markets
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] Competitiveness for firms is possible via the high road or low road, or some combination of the two. For a nation, however, if competitiveness means the ability of a country's firms to sell on world markets while ... -
Revival of the American Labor Movement: Issues, Problems, Prospects
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] The purpose of this book is to examine union revitalization efforts: to identify central developments, to analyze strengths and weaknesses in the new initiatives, and to assessprogress made and prospects for the ... -
Reviving the American Labor Movement: Institutions and Mobilization
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] The reawakening of the American labor movement under new leadership with new strategic orientations is a remarkable chapter in late 20thcentury American economic and political history. Given up for dead by so ... -
Reviving the Labor Movement: A Comparative Perspective
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] In recent years, the long-declining U.S. labor movement has refocused in new and promising ways on rank-and-file mobilization, in organizing drives, collective bargaining conflicts and political campaigns. Such ... -
Robo the Steward
(2003-01-01)[Excerpt] Some years ago a science fiction movie featured Robocop, the perfect police officer. He had super-human abilities and a set of prime directives to govern his approach to the job. It got me thinking: What if there ... -
Serving the Public Interest: Preventing Double-Breasting in the Construction Industry
(2007-10-17)Excerpt] But the immediate question I am addressing is how the practice of double-breasting undermines the stability of collective bargaining in the construction industry. The simple answer is that it is not exceedingly ... -
Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions
(1981-07-01)[Excerpt] Organizing a film festival of pro-labor Hollywood films would be rather difficult. When unions do appear, they are often part of the subplot or the background for the main story line. -
Social Partnership in Germany: Lessons for U.S. Labor and Management
(1993-01-01)German industrial relations in the postwar period have made a major contribution to German industrial success. The German system is rooted in the explicit recognition of well organized interests: strong, assertive employers ... -
Social Partnership: An Organizing Concept for Industrial Relations Reform
(1994-06-01)[Excerpt] In this era of globalization and intensified world market competition, once stable relationships involving firms, unions and government have come under pressure everywhere. Here in the United States, a crisis of ... -
Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the Twenty-First Century
(2005-09-01)American building trades unions have historically played a critical and stabilizing role in the nation’s construction industry, establishing uniform standards and leveling the competitive playing field. Union members have ... -
State of the Artist: Challenges to the New York State Arts & Entertainment Industry and its Workforce
(2017-06-01)[Excerpt] In 2009, with support from Empire State Development (ESD), the Cornell University ILR School published its first report on the state of the New York arts and entertainment (A&E) workforce, Empire State’s Cultural ... -
Steward Training in the Construction Industry: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Faces the Challenge
(1993-01-01)[Excerpt] This article examines the development and delivery of the Carpenters union national construction steward training program. It describes the collaboration of the union and Cornell University in the design of the ... -
Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State: Past, Present, and a Possible Future
(2019-01-01)This report maps current patterns of workplace sexual harassment and their impact in New York State. It also provides a broader frame for understanding how efforts to confront sexual and gender-based harassment and assault ... -
Strategic Grievance Handling
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] Imagine a doctor who tells every patient to take aspirin no matter what the aliment, or a carpenter whose only tool is a hammer. No, this isn't an article about HMO's or an ad for tools. It's about thinking ... -
Sweeping Change: Building Survivor and Worker Leadership to Confront Sexual Harassment in the Janitorial Industry
(2020-01-01)This report documents experiences of workplace sexual harassment in the California janitorial industry, as well as the conditions that hinder reporting and impose silence. It also examines a survivor- and worker-led peer ... -
Talking vs. Communicating
(2006-07-01)[Excerpt] There is a saying, "When all is said and done, more is said than done." Stewards who attend union meetings to decide how to handle and issue or grievance sessions with management probably agree. Why is it so ... -
Tax and Policy Implications of Changes to Reporting Requirements for Construction Services
(2013-12-01)[Excerpt] New York and other states could increase revenue and improve their tax systems by requiring information reporting for all payments by businesses for construction services, utilizing a form similar to the Federal ... -
The Clear Picture on Clear Channel Communications, Inc.: A Corporate Profile
(2004-01-28)[Excerpt] This research was commissioned by the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) with the expressed purpose of assisting the organization and its affiliate unions – which represent ... -
The Contribution of the Latinx Immigrant Workforce to Staten Island’s Economy Before and During the Pandemic
(2020-09-01)[Excerpt] New York City workers and communities have been weathering the impacts of a public health and economic crisis of unprecedented magnitude in U.S. history of the last 100 years. This report focuses on the experience ... -
The Cost of Worker Misclassification in New York State
(2007-02-01)[Excerpt] This study uses data based on audits performed by the NYS Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division during the four-year period 2002-2005. Audits were performed on firms in certain industries, and data ...
