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Disability & Employment
Earn certification and develop leadership skills in disability and employment-support practices through virtual courses through our Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability.
Diversity & Inclusion
Our instructors guide organizations to solve problems, change behaviors, and build inclusive workplaces right down to the core: from recruiting and onboarding through retention and promotion.
Employee Relations
Our courses apply a wide range of research and practices (from emotional intelligence and communication to conflict resolution and investigations) to give your HR professionals skills they need to build employee relationships.
Employment Law
Every aspect of work involves the law, and understanding how it affects your organization will give you an edge in your career. Our courses are designed to be of immediate use, and cover topics from understanding legal implications to handling investigations.
Human Resources
We make use of research from the world's leading HR faculty to design professional training for the world's leading businesses. One in two Fortune 500 companies has an ILRie in a senior HR position.
Leadership Development
Understanding how to lead with values, emotional intelligence, and negotiation skills gives leaders an edge. Our leadership training courses focus on thinking strategically when making decisions and solving problems.
Labor Relations
Learn from researchers and practitioners that span organizational and organized labor to gain skills from negotiations through to bargaining and communications. Our programs train people to systematically solve problems.
Conflict Resolution
A deep, practical understanding of conflict management can position you uniquely within your enterprise. These courses train people to solve problems and design resilient systems for their organizations.
Union Leadership
Our institutional experience, world-class faculty, and deep relationships with labor organizations let us equip organizers to lead with labor's values, think strategically, and build collective-bargaining skills.
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The global pandemic exposed and created systemic conflict throughout our society. Nowhere is this more obvious than in our workplaces. Employers, unions, and other stakeholders have identified a substantial increase in conflict between and among employees and employers on issues such as remote work, staffing, racial and gender justice, workplace violence, health and safety, benefits and pay, to name a few. Recent trends show high public support for unions along with increased organizing, strikes and other action by workers which highlight a growing need and desire for effective ways to address workplace conflicts.
The Labor-Management Conflict Symposium provides management and union leaders the opportunity to come together to engage in discussion, share, and learn best practices on diagnosing and managing the range of conflicts they face. Strengthening and growing conflict resolution practices and systems is key to labor and management’s ability to address the many critical challenges in the workplace now and in the future.
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A Webinar Series Co-Hosted by US Department of Labor–Women’s Bureau & The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR
This webinar series will bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, unions, philanthropy, and advocates to share current research and praxis that address the need for a just economic recovery that reverses long-existent inequalities in job creation and access. The current crisis of inequality, made worse by the intersecting crisis of the pandemic and its impact on women and people of color, accelerates the need to envision job creation through the perspective of an equity lens.
Unprecedented levels of public investment to spur economic recovery after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an historic opportunity to dismantle structural barriers and achieve equity and inclusion in economic development through high-quality jobs access for women and people of color. The question this webinar series will explore is how best to achieve equity goals. Drawing on existing models of practice from around the United States, this series will show how local and state actors have successfully implemented equity and job creation.
The goal of this series is to showcase current research on equity and its application to spur the upscaling of effective policy innovation at the state and local level at a time of record levels of economic investment by the federal government.
Speakers
ALEXANDER COLVIN
Dean, ILR School, Cornell University
Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, is the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, 'MS '76 Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is an associate member of the Cornell Law Faculty. His research and teaching focuses on employment dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on procedures in nonunion workplaces and the impact of the legal environment on organizations. His current research projects include empirical investigations of employment arbitration and a cross-national study of labor and employment law change in the Anglo-American countries. Read more.
WENDY CHUN-HOON
Director, Women's Bureau, Department of Labor
Wendy Chun-Hoon serves as the 20th director of the Women’s Bureau, appointed by President Biden on February 1, 2021. Ms. Chun-Hoon is skilled at coalition building, bridging strategy across grassroots community organizing, and public sector policy making at state and national levels. She has held senior positions in Maryland state government and private philanthropy, overseeing large-scale, results-driven initiatives for worker and family economic justice. Read more.
ANNE MARIE BRADY
Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity, The Worker Institute
Anne Marie Brady is the Senior Extension Associate - Director of Research for Worker Rights and Equity for the Worker Institute. Dr. Brady holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy Research from the London School of Economics. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods of social and labor market policy research and has a 10 -year record of designing research projects with a variety of stakeholders in the policy-making process. Read more.
Raahi Reddy is the Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program. Her team is responsible for ensuring Metro’s programs, investments and internal practices lead with a racial equity lens to effectively advance equity in the region. This work includes launching and leading the groundbreaking Construction Careers Pathways Project that is bringing together numerous public agencies and stakeholders in the Portland metro region to jointly plan, invest and support a new generation of diverse workers in the construction sector. Read more.
RAAHI REDDY
LEAH RAMBO
Director of Training, Smart SM, Local Union 28
Leah Rambo began her career as a sheet metal apprentice in 1988. In 2011 she was appointed as first woman to serve as Director of Training for SMART Local 28 and continues to work in this capacity. Her high energy and dedication have helped to attract and retain an increasing number of women. Local 28 has increased their percentage of female from 3% in 2011 to 13% in 2019. As Director of Training, Ms. Rambo has been responsible for the training of over 3,000 Local 28’s apprentices and active members. Read more.
ANDREA FLYNN
Senior Director, Insight Center
Andrea Flynn is Senior Director at the Insight Center. Prior to joining Insight, she spent eight years at the Roosevelt Institute, where she was most recently the Director of Health Equity. She is the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She frequently writes and speaks about the race and gender dimensions of economic inequality, reproductive health and justice, and health equity. Read more.
ROBERTA REARDON
New York State Secretary of Labor
Director of Metro's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program
KELLY KUPCAK
Executive Director, Oregon Tradeswomen
Kelly Kupcak grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where early on she realized the critical importance of speaking out against injustice and wrote her first letter to the editor of the local newspaper in the third grade. After raising her sons as a single mom, working as a union heavy equipment operator, and working as an advocate for women for almost two decades, she relocated to the Pacific Northwest to serve as Oregon Tradeswomen’s Executive Director in 2017. Read more.
New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon was appointed in October 2015 to oversee the Department’s more than 3,300 employees. On June 15, 2016, Commissioner Reardon was unanimously confirmed by the New York State Senate. Commissioner Reardon graduated from the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School’s New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wyoming. She is a Worker Institute Fellow at Cornell University and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Actors Fund of America. Read more.
KATELYN WALKER MOONEY
Policy Advisor at the Department of Labor in the Office of the Secretary
Katelyn Walker Mooney is a Policy Advisor at the Department of Labor in the Office of the Secretary. Walker Mooney is leading the Department’s Good Jobs Initiative, which is focused on providing critical information to workers, employers, and government agencies as they work to improve job quality. She recently served as the Associate General Counsel for the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more.
Overview
Date:
November 13, 2023
Cost:
$500.00 for the 1st person who registers from an organization.
$250.00 for each additional person who registers from the same organization.
In-Person
Cornell University, ILR School
NYC Conference Center
570 Lexington Ave., 12th Floor
New York, NY 10022
For more information,
please contact:
On different sectors of the economy, bridging theory with practice in discussing how best to advance an equity lens in job creation.
February 2022 - September 2022
Hear from Experts
in the field
Researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and advocates will discuss a just recovery.
THREE WEBINARS
Online / In-Person
in the field
Three virtual webinars culminating with an in-person reception on September 22, 2022.
Grow Your Network
in the field
This series will allow attendees to share what they are working on in the field of equity and connect with others.
A Webinar Series Co-Hosted by US Department of Labor–Women’s Bureau & The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR
This webinar series will bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, unions, philanthropy, and advocates to share current research and praxis that address the need for a just economic recovery that reverses long-existent inequalities in job creation and access. The current crisis of inequality, made worse by the intersecting crisis of the pandemic and its impact on women and people of color, accelerates the need to envision job creation through the perspective of an equity lens.
Unprecedented levels of public investment to spur economic recovery after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an historic opportunity to dismantle structural barriers and achieve equity and inclusion in economic development through high-quality jobs access for women and people of color. The question this webinar series will explore is how best to achieve equity goals. Drawing on existing models of practice from around the United States, this series will show how local and state actors have successfully implemented equity and job creation.
The goal of this series is to showcase current research on equity and its application to spur the upscaling of effective policy innovation at the state and local level at a time of record levels of economic investment by the federal government.
Previous events
Feb 24, 2022
Job Creation for a Just Society
We explore how equity in job creation is defined – with a focus on job growth through the current expansion of infrastructure investment.
April 26, 2022
Investing in Childcare Careers
We explore the challenges of the childcare industry and highlight local examples that are improving access to child care while also raising wages for child care workers.
Scheinman Institute
Faculty
PAY DISPARITY
IS REAL:
Is Wage Transparency
the Answer?
OCT 25, 2022
Symposium for Labor and Management on Workplace Conflict
New York City
November 13, 2023
January 25, 2023
Cheryl Teare
Cornell University, ILR School
SENIOR EXTENSION ASSOCIATE, LABOR RELATIONS PROGRAMS
SENIOR EXTENSION ASSOCIATE, LABOR RELATIONS PROGRAMS
Anne Marie Brady
Research for Worker Rights and Equity at the ILR Worker Institute
MODERATOR | DIRECTOR
Schedule
Registration and Breakfast
Welcome and Opening Plenary Session
Historic levels of social and economic change are manifesting in an array of conflicts in the post-pandemic workplace. Our panel of national leaders will discuss the sources and impacts of these conflicts on public, private and nonprofit sector workplaces.
Panelists:
Marilyn Chow, Professor, University of California-San Francisco and former V.P. of Patient Care Services, Kaiser Permanente
Rebecca Dixon, President and CEO, National Employment Law Project
Michael Mulgrew, President, United Federation of Teachers
Martin F. Scheinman, Esq. Arbitrator and Mediator, Scheinman Arbitration and Mediation Services
Small Group Discussion: The Impact of Conflict
Join a facilitated session where participants reflect on the opening plenary discussion and share their own challenges with conflict in their workplace. Discussion will explore existing and emerging causes of conflict across different industries and types of organizations and how workplace conflict is affecting workers, employers, and the communities/consumers they serve
Lunch
Plenary Session: Framework for Diagnosing Conflict
Different types and levels of conflict require different approaches. Join this discussion led by Scheinman Institute faculty to learn to identify the source, type and level of conflict occurring, and options for managing it. Participants will engage with their own examples to analyze the “why, what, and who” of conflict situations.
Break
Plenary Session: Conflict Management Approaches, Processes, and Systems
Recognition of the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplace conflict necessitates that labor and management incorporate new approaches to managing conflict and potentially retool some existing dispute resolution methods. Panelists will illustrate a spectrum of conflict resolution processes – from restorative justice circles to more traditional processes such as collective bargaining, grievance handling, mediation and arbitration -- and how to expand our conflict management capacity to include multiple perspectives and approaches.
Small Group Discussions Round 1
Participants will rotate through four concurrent small group facilitated discussions to share challenges and opportunities they’ve experienced and explore best practices in conflict management.
Small Group Discussions Round 2
Transition Time
Small Group Discussions Round 3
Transition Time
Small Group Discussions Round 4
Transition Time
Closing Plenary
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
9:00 A.M
6:30 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
7:45 P.M.
11:30 A.M
12:15 -1:15 P.M
1:15 -2:15 P.M
2:15 - 2:30 P.M
2:30 - 3:45 P.M
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
12:20 -12:30 P.M
10:00 - 10:10 A.M
10:10 - 11:10 A.M
11:20 - 12:20 P.M
10:00 A.M
4:00 - 5:00 P.M
11:10 - 11:20 A.M
9:00 - 10:00 A.M
12:20 - 1:30 P.M
Panelists
Anne Marie Brady
Research for Worker Rights and Equity at the ILR Worker Institute
MODERATOR | DIRECTOR
Scheinman Institute's
Labor-Management Conflict Symposium
Art Wheaton
Cornell University, ILR School
DIRECTOR, WESTERN NY LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
DIRECTOR, WESTERN NY LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
An interactive conference to learn and apply best practices on conflict management.
This is a public event, which will be photographed and filmed and/or otherwise recorded. Your registration for this event constitutes your consent to such photography, livestreaming, filming and/or recording and to any use, in any and all media.
The history of labor relations has repeatedly shown us that labor and management can create mutually beneficial and often creative solutions to difficult workplace problems when they come together to exchange ideas and take everyone’s concerns seriously. We hope you’ll join us in this opportunity to engage in interactive discussion and learning sessions led by Scheinman Institute faculty, hear from national leaders on conflict trends and strategies and, and share your own challenges and best practices. We especially encourage teams of labor and management leaders from locations to attend together.
Harry Katz
Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining
Director, Scheinman Institute
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