Led by Patricia Campos-Medina ’96, MPA ’97, it conducts research and outreach on today’s rapidly changing employment landscape
When workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted to unionize earlier this year—a first for the retail giant—it was a surprise win for organized labor. In the months since, similar efforts have flourished at multiple Starbucks cafes, news outlets, even a video game company.
And when media and others needed to make sense of this seeming rebirth of the U.S. labor movement and the factors behind it—including pandemic-related health concerns and a surge in employee activism—they turned to the experts at the ILR Worker Institute.
Created in 2010 to bring the ILR School’s existing research, education, and training programs on contemporary labor issues under one roof, the NYC-based Institute hosts trainings for union and worker-justice leaders and offers workshops and webinars for union members.
“We’re seeing this moment where it is low-wage workers, workers of color, single women who are organizing—all of them in the service and logistics economy,” says Patricia Campos-Medina ’96, MPA ’97, the Institute’s executive director.
The Institute also serves as a training, research, and policymaking hub and partners with agencies and labor groups nationwide on advancing a clean-energy green job market, employment opportunities tied to infrastructure improvements, and more.
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