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Harsh Prison Sentences: A Labor Issue?
Is mass incarceration a labor issue? According to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the answer is a resounding “yes”. According to Dave Jamieson, writing in the Huffington Post, Trumka is prepared to give remarks on Friday “offering robust support” for California’s Porposition 47, a proposal that would downgrade non-violent crimes to misdemeanors, thereby rendering thousands of state and county prisoners…
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Stephanie Luce on the Fight for a Living Wage
This past week, Murphy Institute Professor Stephanie Luce gave a talk at the James Connolly Forum on the fight for a living wage and the $15 minimum campaign. Couldn’t make it person? Catch the talk here: [youtube=http://youtu.be/QfrjZ1ezkaI] Stephanie Luce is an Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute.
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Students Fight Back in Philadelphia
By Steve Brier In the latest ominous sign of the ramping up of the neoliberal agenda to undermine public funding for public institutions, the state-appointed Philadelphia School Reform Commission (PSRC), which has managerial control over the city’s public school system and its 130,000 students, on October 6th unilaterally cancelled the longstanding contract it had with…
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Opening: Extension Associate in the Worker Institute – School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Description The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University has an immediate opening for an Extension Associate in the Worker Institute. The position of Extension Associate – Co-Director Cornell Union Leadership Institute within the Worker Institute (WI) in the Extension/Outreach Division of the ILR School is responsible for providing a range of training,…
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