Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab

Cathy Creighton, director of ILR's Buffalo Co-Lab, says that Starbucks airing their labor law violations publicly “will tarnish their brand, and when it tarnishes their brand, it will hurt their bottom dollar, and then they’ll stop doing it. They’re not going to stop doing it unless someone stops them.”

Starbucks won’t admit to breaking the law by union busting Longtime CEO Howard Shultz testified before a Senate committee as the company’s labor violations stack up.

The Cornell ILR Eviction Filings Dashboard for New York is a new tool from Russell Weaver, director of research at the Buffalo Co-Lab. The dashboard is designed to help citizens, policymakers and nonprofits more easily visualize where eviction filings have occurred since 2018, their frequency and how filing patterns have changed over time.

“In a nutshell, the biggest cost facing working families across NYS is housing, and housing costs have been rising rapidly in recent years,” said Weaver. “The lack of living wage earnings across the state that our Wage Atlas reveals, combined with rapidly rising housing costs -- all happening at the same time the statewide COVID eviction moratorium expired -- is leading to increased interest in eviction across the state and the impacts it will have on NYS communities and the state economy.”

The eviction dashboard project is part of the public impact mission and “data democratization” initiative at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.

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Strikers Winning Concessions: “If there’s nobody in line to take your job because there are just not enough people, that gives you incredible strength in striking,” says Cathy Creighton

U.S. labor strikes went up almost 50% between 2021 and 2022 Cornell University counted almost 400 strikes last year, following decades of declining union membership. Here's why labor action is becoming more common.