Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing Progress and Remaining Challenges Across NYS

Join Rusty Weaver, Director of Research, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, and community leaders in broadband accessibility for a virtual presentation of the new Digital Equity Portal and a discussion on what progress has been made since the pandemic and what still needs to happen.
Heat map of digital equity accessibility across NYS
Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing Progress and Remaining Challenges Across NYS

Tracking Worker Militancy with the Labor Action Tracker

High-profile strikes and protests have recently garnered national attention. Yet, are worker actions increasing? If so, what demands are being made, and how can we understand their effectiveness? In 2021, researchers at Cornell's School of Industrial Labor Relations sought to provide the answers to these questions through the Labor Action Tracker. The Labor Action Tracker can be used as a comprehensive database of strike and labor protest activity across the United States to better inform and support labor movement activists, policymakers, and scholars about the state of US labor actions today. Please join the Center for Applied Research on Work in conversation with the Labor Action Tracker project leads and special guest Daniel Perez, State Economic Analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the genesis of the tool, how to use it, how it compares to other labor action trackers around the world, and what they see in the data.
Picketing workers
Tracking Worker Militancy with the Labor Action Tracker

2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

The Worker Institute will host the 2024 Future of Care Work Convening, bringing together advocates, care workers, labor leaders, scholars, and organizers committed to placing care workers' needs and voices at the center of discussions on the future of care work. Building on the energy of the first convening, this year’s speakers, panels, and action sessions will focus on care as a public good, innovative examples of raising standards across care sectors, and building connections across care providers and recipients and paid and unpaid care work.

Older woman outside with a walker assisted by a home health aide
2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

Uniting on the High Road A Conference on Economic Justice at the Local Level

Additional conference dates and times: Friday, June 21, 2024 at 9:00am to 6:30pm Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 9:00am to 12:30pm Bringing together activists and leaders working in local and national movements for racial and economic equality, climate justice, worker rights and power, and a strong democracy. In cities across the United States, everyday people are working to transform our democracy by strengthening their voices in local government, shaping an economy that works for all, and reimagining public safety and health. They are organizing locally to imagine and build a new future where people have good jobs, affordable housing, climate justice, and a real voice in the decisions that affect our lives. Join us in Buffalo for Uniting on the High Road, June 20-22, 2024, a conference bringing together leaders, advocates, researchers, and organizers from these broad movements for racial and economic justice and authentic democracy. The conference will include speakers from local and national organizations like PowerSwitch Action, Good Jobs First, ALIGN, Demos, Bargaining for the Common Good, Grassroots Collaborative of Chicago, New Yorkers United for Child Care, and local unions, universities, and partners in government. Come and take part in interactive workshops, field experiences in Buffalo neighborhoods, art performances, and collective artmaking as we learn from each other and imagine future collaboration within and across cities. The cost for this conference is $275.

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Uniting on the High Road A Conference on Economic Justice at the Local Level