Newswise — Millions of American jobs have vanished since 2000. Entire industries have been decimated – even the newspaper industry has been affected. Workers lucky enough to have a steady paycheck worry about stagnant wages, benefit slashes, lack of workplace legal protections and undercapitalized pensions.
Reporters are invited to a journalists-only luncheon in Midtown Manhattan with Lowell Turner, Worker Institute academic director, and Marc Bayard, executive director, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15. It will be held at Cornell’s ILR Conference Center in Manhattan.
The Worker Institute at Cornell will focus on innovative strategies to revitalize worker rights and strengthen collective representation. (The Worker Institute at Cornell – which officially launches on Sept. 12 – is part of the university’s Industrial and Labor Relations School.)
Join us for a conversation designed to help reinforce your reporting on the employment crisis and its impact on society. Tap into the expertise of workplace researchers, academics and practitioners who can help you tell the story of what’s happening to workers.
Lowell Turner, academic director of the institute, is a professor in Cornell’s ILR School. He teaches international and comparative labor and collective bargaining. Marc Bayard is executive director of The Worker Institute. He has worked nationally and internationally in the labor movement for more than 15 years.
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