News Digest
Highlights from ILR
An audio interview with ILR Director of Workplace Issues KC Wagner about sexual harassment, domestic violence and how they affect workplaces and communities is posted online. Wagner was interviewed by Tish Pearlman of the "Out of Bounds" public affairs program broadcast on WSKG-FM and WEOS-FM. Please note: You must have or download Real Player in order to listen to the interview.
Alyssa O'Connor '12 will attend the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. She is one of about 1,000 university students nationwide nominated to participate in a five-day Washington program sponsored by the University Presidential Inaugural Conference. It is designed to give students a deeper understanding of electoral process history and of inauguration traditions. Students will meet with former White officials including Al Gore and Colin Powell and Washington political commentators such as James Carville and Mary Matalin. In addition to attending the inauguration, students will watch the inauguration parade and attend an inaugural ball.
Sean Sweeney and Jill Kubit of ILR's Global Labor Institute were in Poznan, Poland, this month for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Poznan conference is considered the half-way point in the United Nation's negotiating process for a post-2012 climate change pact. The event drew thousands of people, including government delegates from nearly 200 nations, along with representatives of environmental, business and non-governmental organizations. During the conference, the Global Labor Institute sponsored a meeting of union and environmental leaders. Human rights activist Bianca Jagger attended and was thanked by Sweeney for her work in support of workers and the environment. Jagger is chair of the World Future Council, an international group focused on climate protection, human rights, peace and ethics in politics and economics.
An Institute for Workplace Studies Colloquium Series lecture entitled "Crafting and Implementing a New Labor Policy" can be viewed online. The video features Harry Katz, ILR's Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and Jack Sheinkman Professsor of Collective Bargaining, and Thomas Kochan, professor of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School. The talk was presented this month at the Cornell Club in New York City as part of the 2008-2009 Joseph R. Rich Lectures.
KC Wagner, director of Workplace Issues at ILR's New York City office, will talk about her work on the "Out of Bounds" radio show Dec. 18 and Dec. 21 with Tish Pearlman, host/producer. The show will air live at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 on WEOS-FM (88.1 Ithaca, 90.3 and 89.7 Geneva, with a live stream at weos.org) and again at 11:30 a.m. Dec 21 on WSKG-FM (89.3 Binghamton, 90.9 Ithaca, 91.7 Cooperstown/Oneonta, 91.1 Corning/Elmira, 88.7 Hornell/Alfred). More information about "Out of Bounds," named "Best Public Affairs Program Series" in 2008 by the New York State Broadcasting Association, is available at www.outofboundsradioshow.com.
Francine Blau, the ILR School's Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics, has been named an inaugural academic fellow of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Blau and four other inductees will be formally named Jan. 4 at the association's annual meeting in San Francisco.
Andrew Starr, candidate for a 2009 masters of ILR degree, is student manager of the Cornell team which will compete Feb. 5-12 in the International Chamber of Commerce International Commercial Mediation Competition in Paris. Forty teams from 19 countries are competing. The Cornell team, comprised of Starr and four Cornell Law School students, is being sponsored by ILR's Scheinman Institute of Conflict Resolution and the law school.
