Ithaca Co-Lab

The 18th Transatlantic Social Dialogue Webinar Series kicked off with a conversation with ILO Director General Guy Ryder on October 15, 2020. The discussion addressed rising unemployment, the impact of the crisis on migrant and informal workers, the impact of trade agreements on workers, and gaps in social protection.

The Ithaca Co-Lab launches a research project on workers made unemployed during the current pandemic aimed to find out how supports such as unemployment insurance, social services, retraining programs, mutual aid, churches and charities shape workers' transitions from work to unemployment and back again.

The Transatlantic Social Dialogue (TSD) continues this fall with another series of webinars focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on organized labor issues. Registration will open on October 1st.

Cornell students are learning all about unemployment with ILR professor Ian Greer in his course titled The Fight Against Unemployment: Advocacy and Policy being offered this fall semester at Cornell University.

The Worker Power, Racial Justice and Mutual Aid Webinar brought together numerous local organizers in Tompkins County with national organizers to discuss racial justice and mutual aid during the pandemic held Tuesday, July 28, 2020.

Students and academics in Ithaca virtually joined strikers in Europe to discuss shared injustices and the global struggle and to record statements of solidarity on Thursday, March 5, 2020, international day of mobilization for academic workers.