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Andrew Wolf

@mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social
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Labor sociologists, assistant professor at Cornell ILR. Studies gig worker and immigrant worker organizing. PhD from UW-Madison, fmr post doc Rutgers SMLR, fmr campaigner SEIU 32BJ. Website: andrewwolfsociology.com

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Make no mistake about it, the Carney government's labour reforms neuter the right to strike. A right that’s suspended when it becomes effective isn’t much of a right at all. www.thestar.com/business/uni... #canlab #cdnpoli
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Unions hammer Carney government’s revamp of labour rules: ‘This bill neuters the right to strike’
Unions and labour organizations across the country blasted the federal government’s new legislation overhauling labour law Monday, saying it will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but im...
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some 11,000 Teamster mechanics at United Airlines voted down a TA by 53 percent. These Teamsters have been trying to reach a deal for two years. Why was it voted down?
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Teamsters Land Industry-Leading Deal at United Airlines
(WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters Union has reached an agreement in principle with United Airlines (UA) on a new contract for more than 11,000 mechanics and relate
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sociology of Work (tenure track): www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...
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Tenure-track Faculty Position in Sociology of Work | Ressources humaines | Université Laval
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The grad students in our department have developed a culture that they show up to each other’s thesis defenses and it’s really the most wonderful thing.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lovely piece celebrating the retirement of my mentor, colleague, and friend Kate Bronfenbrenner jacobin.com/2026/08/bron...
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Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, and how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her fin...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What does it mean to have a "human-in-the-loop"? Mishal Khan dives into the many different HITL provisions being proposed in legislatures across the country today, highlighting their impacts on workers. just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/co-... @ssrc.org
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Co-opting or Centering the Human Worker in the Digital Age? An Overview of Human-in-the-Loop Legislation in the United States
Since the release of ChatGPT in 2023, predictions of widespread job loss have littered headlines. Silicon Valley’s tech titans claim they will reshape the global economy with the creation of...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When you attempt to participate in the replacement of your labor with AI but accidentally prove you, a human, need to do your job.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Went on Spectrum's the Big Deal show to talk about how the proposed congressional gig work portable benefits bill is just a backdoor attempt to massively expand independent contractor status and undermine labor and employment rights www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGw...
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Debate over access to benefits for gig workers | The Big Deal
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Santiago Anria @anriasantiago.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Happy to share that "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" is out now with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and available in multiple formats. If it looks interesting, please consider requesting it at your university library! Check it out 👇 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Polarization and Democracy in Latin America
An insightful examination of Latin America’s contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility. Although Latin American democracies have shown considera...
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Good Jobs First @goodjobsfirst.org · 16/12/2025
NEW ANALYSIS: Federal regulatory agencies charged with enforcing wage and workplace safety conditions are taking drastically fewer actions against companies, and proposed rule changes by the administration will give workers even fewer protections. 🧵 goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...
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Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First
Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Check out Alex Kowalski's excellent new paper on robots in fulfillment warehouses. We think this is the first published paper that was first work-shopped at Cornell's new Sociology of Organizations, Labor, and Economy Seminar! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our new chapter (#3) “Toward a Sociology of Labour Regulation and Enforcement in the Context of the Modern Fissured Workplace” in the Handbook on the Sociology of Work is out now. Excellent volume with chapters from lots of amazing people! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In his last hours as Mayor Eric Adams vetoed every progressive labor reform passed this month. This was not based on conviction but a corrupt man trying to add zeros to a lobbying career that won’t pan out because he has in fact zero juice.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Gotta love the student whose fake AI citation was attributed to ME!!!
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Algorithmic management and AI making decisions to fire people is not only morally unexplainable but is prone to error and racial bias. NYC took a massive step forward yesterday in providing just cause protections and the right to arbitration for gig workers. www.amny.com/news/city-co...
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City Council approves ‘unfair deactivations’ safeguards for rideshare drivers, delivery workers – amNewYork
The City Council approved on Thursday a pair of measures designed to bolster protections for app-based rideshare drivers and delivery workers against firings
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
My old friend Alex Bores is running for Congress and gave a great interview to Odd Lots on NYS’ efforts to regulate AI open.spotify.com/episode/067Q...
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Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Tomorrow is shaping up to be a massive day for workers’ rights in NYC with votes on just cause protections for gig workers and street vendor licensing reform. I have written reports on why both are needed. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/carow-... www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-insti...
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Just Cause for NYC Gig Workers Provides Human Review for Algorithmic Firings
App workers receive minimal benefits and protection. Termination decisions are made by algorithms, which are prone to error and discriminatory customer abuse. ILR Assistant Professor Andrew Wolf descr...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Aurora borealis over Cornell on my walk home tonight.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
GOP bill to destroy the NLRA www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What's happening here? "President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce report..." www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks
President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I wrote a policy brief on why NYC’s just cause protections for gig workers bills are needed given the prevalence of discrimination in the industry. @nytwa.bsky.social @workersjusticep.bsky.social
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Just Cause for NYC Gig Workers Provides Human Review for Algorithmic Firings
App workers receive minimal benefits and protection. Termination decisions are made by algorithms, which are prone to error and discriminatory customer abuse. ILR Assistant Professor Andrew Wolf descr...
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#CornellILR's @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social, assistant professor of global labor and work, provides expert commentary on the dynamics of ethnic groups in street vending and the challenges vendors face under current regulations.
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Fear and Anger Fill New York’s Canal Street After Immigration Raid
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Full moon over Cornell University at sunset. Wish I had had a better camera. And that I wasn’t standing in front of the waste water treatment plant.
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Jim DelRosso - SOLIDARITY AND POWER TO THE WORKERS @niwandajones.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cornell University Library is hiring two Processing Archivists! Come work with us! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
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Processing Archivist (2 Positions) - Cornell University Library in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Library & Museum at Cornell University
Apply for Processing Archivist (2 Positions) - Cornell University Library job with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Library & Museum at Cornell University
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
On Friday, the NYC Council Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection discussed a local law to amend administrative code in relation to the wrongful deactivation of app-based delivery workers. #CornellILR's @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social submitted testimony before city council on this measure.
Andrew B. Wolf, assistant professor of global labor and work at the Cornell University ILR School, says: “Unlike traditional jobs where workers are disciplined by managers, app delivery workers are being terminated by algorithms and AI systems with no human oversight. Research shows these algorithmic firings are often triggered by racist customer ratings or algorithmic glitches. The just cause protection bill ensures human review of automated termination and provides an innovative path for workers to access City provided arbitration ensuring a fair hearing.”
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🚨 New Paper! 🚨 Why do employers violate employment law? Turns out the answer is radically different for small businesses, especially IBIPOC businesses whose marginallization diminishes HR capacity. We find this complicates govt enforcement efforts. Out now in IREL doi.org/10.1111/irel...
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Threats to Legitimacy in Local Employment Law Enforcement Regimes Among Immigrant and Racially Marginalized Small Business Owners
U.S. municipal labor enforcement agencies find they are often inundated with complaints from small, immigrant- or minority-owned firms. This undermines these agencies' efforts to engage in strategic ....
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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Call for Bordeaux 2026 Mini-Conference Theme Proposals! SASE invites scholars to propose mini-conference themes for its 38th Annual Meeting at Sciences Po Bordeaux, 1–3 July 2026 (virtual: 22–24 June) Deadline: 18 Sept 2025 Details: sase.org/news/call-fo... #SASE2026
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Call for Bordeaux 2026 Mini Conference Proposals - SASE
38th Annual SASE Conference Location & Date: Sciences Po Bordeaux, France — 1–3 July 2026 Virtual events: 22–24 June 2026 Submit your mini-conference proposal by 18 September 2025 via this form What I...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Pretty funny that both the unions and the bosses made the same calculus on endorsing Cuomo.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Excited about Zohran Mamdani? Read my recent book chapter about the NYTWA hungry strike which he participated in a fought endlessly with Brad Lander to win. andrewwolfsociology.com/wp-content/u...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Good book from the summer office.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
And the people likely to suffer the most are not the detested cultural elites, but admin staff, grounds crew, janitors, food workers, adjuncts, lecturers, lab techs, grad students. That tenured Marxist in the English dept is keeping their job, even if their travel budget is going to be cut
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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC! Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history. Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15 ✅ Feedback + mentoring ✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed) 🔗 forms.gle/vDkCHyenE5yQ...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
ICE recently conducted a raid of farm workers, seemingly focused on pro-union worker leaders. On Friday in New York the federal agents stopped a bus and, armed with a list, appeared to single out those who have been doing union organizing for years. theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
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“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.
group of supporters outside an ICE detention center
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
How does local place & its socio-political & histories of racism shape gig economy algorithms? Our take out now in @bjireditor.bsky.social "‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South
The proponents of app-based, algorithmically mediated employment seek to create an easily transferable uniform labour process around the world. These apps classify their workers as independent contra...
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Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
@thecity.nyc wrote an excellent future on our new study finding problems in NYC’s street vendor enforcement and reform efforts @cornellilr.bsky.social @streetvendorproj.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/25/v...
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Vending Enforcement Slams Poor Minorities in White Neighborhoods, New Report Finds
The ticketing is “costly and ineffective,” according to the researchers, with $21 spent for every ticket issued on average.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our new @cornellilr.bsky.social Worker Institute study finds that New York City’s street vending enforcement is a massive money loser which disproportionately criminalizes immigrants and that reform efforts have failed to meet their goals. @streetvendorproj.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/1813/116768
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Evaluating the Regulation and Reform Implementation of Street Vending Laws in New York City
Street vending has long been an important entry point to the local labor market for New York City’s immigrant communities. Thousands of New Yorkers build their livelihoods around servicing our tourist industries and provide fresh food to our communities. Recently New York City engaged in a series of reform efforts aimed at lifting barriers to accessing vendor permits and attempts to limit the criminalization of street vending in the City. This report evaluates the regulatory environment which street vendors face investigating the implementation of these reform efforts and the disparate impacts and costs of vending enforcement.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Happy Pub Date to THE PANDEMIC AND THE WORKING CLASS: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19 edited by Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #LaborStudies #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress cc: @umassboston.bsky.social
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍 Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power! 📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual) 📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025 🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig... @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Visual der Veranstaltung DigiMeet
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s publication day on this excellent new volume on the pandemic and the working class. I contributed a chapter on gig worker and street vendor organizing during the pandemic in NYC. Get 30% off with the discount code below. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...
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Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
NEW: 2024 union filings are in from a host of unions, here is the data on membership changes so far: @seiu.org +101,000 @afscme.bsky.social +40,000 @unitehere.org +31,000 UFCW +18,000 @weareliuna.bsky.social +7,000 @uaw.org +5,000 @iuoe.bsky.social +4,000 @smart-union.bsky.social +4,000
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
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Cornell University, Global Labor and Work
Job #AJO29869, WDR-00051984 Postdoctoral Associate – Global Labor and Work, ILR Future of Work Program, Global Labor and Work, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Dept of Global Labor and Work @cornellilr.bsky.social is hiring a Post Doc on the impact of AI at work. Please apply! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Cornell University, Global Labor and Work
Job #AJO29869, WDR-00051984 Postdoctoral Associate – Global Labor and Work, ILR Future of Work Program, Global Labor and Work, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/03/2025
For the first time EVER in the Las Vegas Strip’s 90-year history, every casino resort is unionized. Congratulations to the @culinary226.bsky.social workers at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on their new contract!
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Las Vegas Strip Reaches Full Union Coverage as Fontainebleau Signs First Labor Deal
The Culinary and Bartenders Unions have reached a historic agreement with Fontainebleau, making all casino resorts on The Strip 100% unionized
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The NYAG’s settlement with DoorDash was a huge victory for workers but without legislation protecting workers from algorithmic wage setting the problem with persist.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hosted a screening of Union last night the incredible new doc about the fight for a union at Amazon in NYC. Natalie Monarrez one of the worker leaders did a powerful Q&A after the film. Go see this moving film about how hard it is to form a union in the U.S. @cornellilr.bsky.social
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Can’t believe we lost Burawoy. Everything changed and clicked for me in grad school when I read “Manufacturing Consent.” His work and methodological approach were such an inspiration and comfort that not all Sociology had to be the same.
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Building a lecture for next term around the Blake Lively sexual harassment lawsuit to explain the difference between labor and employment law. Such an interesting case of how being a union member with a CBA strengthens your employment lawsuit.
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