Cornell ILR School Launching Institute To Link Labor Educators, Practitioners

NEW YORK—The Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations School is readying for the formal launch of a new Worker Institute as a vehicle to link researchers, educators, and students with practitioners in labor, business, and policymaking, the institute’s directors said Aug. 15.

Set for Sept. 12, the launch comes at a “historic juncture” in a period of crisis and conflict over organized labor and worker issues, Lowell Turner, the institute’s academic director, told reporters at a briefing. The think-tank project aims to bring together some 100 experts to offer evidence-based research to inform the growing debate and work with practitioners, ...