The ILR Labor Roundtable is an annual event that brings together a wide range of representatives from labor leadership, unions, and social justice organizations to campus for dynamic, in-depth conversations with students. Through these discussions, students gain exposure to current trends in the labor movement and the fundamental role that it plays in bringing about social change. This event is open to all students. Please register by logging into your existing Handshake account to attend. Speakers include: Shirley Aldebol, Council Member, District 13; Chair, Committee on Civil Service and Labor, New York City CouncilWallace Alpern, Organizing Apprentice JFK8, Amazon Labor UnionKathryn Cernera, President, Ithaca Teacher's AssociationDennis Diaz, Director for Airports, Unite Here! Local 100Austin Knipper, Senior Planner for Labor and Economic Development, Metropolitan Area Planning Council of MAAbigail R. Levy, Deputy General Counsel & Executive Secretary, NYC Office of Collective BargainingBruce Levine, Labor & ERISA Attorney, Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLPGlenna Li, Strategic Researcher, 32BJ SEIUDan Point, President, Local 802 of American Federation of MusiciansJacki Thompson, Bargaining Committee Member, CWA-Cayuga United 1111, Cayuga Medical CenterDave Wazeter, PhD '91, Program Manager, Pennsylvania State Education AssociationBill Zoda, Director of Collective Bargaining, The News Guild of New YorkMore to come! This event is co-sponsored by: Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA) Department of Government ILR Career Development ILR Scheinman Institute ILR Worker Institute Latina/o Studies Program

Since 2016, the China labor collection at Kheel Center in the ILR School’s Catherwood Library, has amassed a vast audio-visual archive consisting of photographs, films, brochures, oral interviews, poetry, and other materials on labor in the People’s Republic of China between the years 1993-2023. This exhibition is a curation of this invaluable collection, made available for the first time to the Cornell and greater Ithaca community. Come and learn about the multifaceted lives of China’s workers: their struggles, their efforts to determine their own working conditions through strikes and protests, and their self-expression in the form of documentation, poems, videos and more. Acknowledgements: Cornell Kheel Center, ILR School; Department of Asian Studies; The East Asia Program; Department of History of Art & Visual Studies; the China Asia Pacific Studies Program; and the Asian Labor Institute Sat, Nov 14 1 p.m.: Exhibit opens 5 p.m.: Opening Reception 6 p.m. : Opening Roundtable: “Thirty Years of Chinese Labor” (with Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Shaoling Ma, Xiangzi, and A-Gan) For more information and a full list of events, please see the main event page.