Graduate Center faculty are frequently in the news, sharing their expertise with the public and weighing in on pressing issues. Following are some prominent news...
WNYC News shared highlights from "The State of the Unions 2017," the annual report from CUNY's Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, co-authored by Distinguished Professor Ruth Milkman (GC, Sociology) and Professor Stephanie Luce (GC/Joseph S. Murphy Institute, Labor Studies).
Unionization rates in New York City and State continued to rebound from their post-Great Recession lows and outpaced the rest of the nation in 2016 and the first half of 2017, according to an annual report out today. But the expected outcome of an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case could dramatically weaken public-sector unions across the nation - including those in New York.
Defying the national trend of diminishing labor union membership in most parts of the United States, the New York City union rate has grown more than 16 percent since 2012.