The Worker Institute brings together researchers, educators and students with practitioners in labor, business and policymaking to address issues related to confronting systemic inequality and building a fair economy, robust democracy and just society. We will share opinion, analysis, research, data, insights and training from our faculty and staff.
Lois Gray
Worker Center Innovation in Upstate New York
On October 25th, in Syracuse, New York, more than 8 upstate organizations gathered for an event to strategize on building long-term worker power in their region.
Closing Plenary: Labor in the 21st Century National Conference
The closing plenary’s three featured speakers -- Ariel Avgar, Erica Smiley, and Elizabeth Shuler -- discussed the future of the Labor Movement and the role of ILR, activists, and unions in it.
Worker Institute hosts National Virtual Conference on Labor in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
On March 26, 2021, the ILR school celebrated its 75th anniversary by hosting a National Virtual Conference on Labor in the 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities: A Worker-Centered Economic Recovery, A Changing Legal and Regulatory Environment, A Contested Political Terrain.
Worker Centered Economic Recovery : Labor in the 21st Century National Conference
This breakout session of the Labor in the 21st century focused on critical initiatives needed to launch a Worker Centered Economic Recovery featured as we currently face the worst political, social, and economic inequality in a century. While a recovery will require work on many
A Changing Legal and Regulatory Environment: Labor in the 21st Century National Conference
This breakout session of the Labor in the 21st century discussed some of the most pressing legislative and regulatory issues for workers and their organizations. It explores current challenges and opportunities for reform.
Welcome and Opening Plenary: Labor in the 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities
The opening plenary of the Worker Institute’s conference “Labor in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities” featured three speakers with innovative ideas on show to shape the trajectory of work, and worker power, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Worker Institute is hosting a national conference, Labor in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
On March 26th, as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations for the School of Industrial Labor Relations, the Worker Institute is hosting a conference focused on Labor in the 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities: A Worker-Centered Economic Recovery,.
“State of the Artist: Challenges to the New York State Arts & Entertainment Industry and Its Workforce” was funded by the New York State Legislature. The study was built on a 2007 ILR School report funded by the Empire State Development Corp.
Lois S. Gray received the Labor and Employment Relations Association Founders Award at the presidential luncheon during their Annual Meeting this past May 28th, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
On Tuesday, March 22, The Worker Institute hosted a conversation in New York City with British Columbia Federation of Labour (BCFED) President Irene Lanzinger and Professor Emeritus Lois Gray of The Worker Institute.
Lois Gray, the Jean McKelvey-Alice Grant Professor Emerita of Labor-Management Relations, is ILR's longest-serving faculty member, and one of the longest-serving faculty at Cornell.
Authored by Lois Gray and Maria Figueroa of the Worker Institute, "Women's Committees in Worker Organizations: Still Making a Difference" is the newest in a series of collaborations between the ILR School and the Berger-Marks Foundation.
Lois Gray is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Association for Labor Education (UALE). She received the award on Saturday at the annual UALE conference.
The Berger-Marks Foundation announces the release of its newest report, “Women’s Committees in Worker Organizations: Still Making a Difference,” written by Lois Gray and Maria Figueroa of the Worker Institute at Cornell,
