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Led by Patricia Campos-Medina \u201996, MPA \u201997, it conducts research and outreach on today\u2019s rapidly changing employment landscape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island voted to unionize earlier this year\u2014a first for the retail giant\u2014it was a surprise win for organized labor. In the months since, similar efforts have flourished at multiple Starbucks cafes, news outlets, even a video game company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when media and others needed to make sense of this seeming rebirth of the U.S. labor movement and the factors behind it\u2014including pandemic-related health concerns and a surge in employee activism\u2014they turned to the experts at the ILR Worker Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created in 2010 to bring the ILR School\u2019s existing research, education, and training programs on contemporary labor issues under one roof, the NYC-based Institute hosts trainings for union and worker-justice leaders and offers workshops and webinars for union members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing this moment where it is low-wage workers, workers of color, single women who are organizing\u2014all of them in the service and logistics economy,\u201d says Patricia Campos-Medina \u201996, MPA \u201997<\/a>, the Institute\u2019s executive director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campos-Medina (center) with a participant at a recent Institute retreat for union leaders. (Provided)<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Institute also serves as a training, research, and policymaking hub and partners with agencies and labor groups nationwide on advancing a clean-energy green job market, employment opportunities tied to infrastructure improvements, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As seasoned voices on labor issues, ILR faculty and staff affiliated with the Institute are regularly quoted in the media; a recent sampling includes a Politico<\/a><\/em> piece on unions and student debt relief<\/a> and a CNBC story on workers supporting unionization<\/a>, as well as coverage in the New York Times<\/em>, Washington Post<\/em>, Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than a dozen undergraduate and graduate research fellows train with the Institute each year on research methods and the basics of policymaking. Over the years, thousands of labor leaders and workers have participated in its programs and initiatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few of the Institute\u2019s key offerings target workers in low-wage, non-unionized jobs\u2014like its We Rise Nanny Training certificate program, which has trained more than 400 childcare and domestic workers not only in first aid, nutrition, and early childhood psychology, but also in leadership skills, employment relations, and strategies for negotiating contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Institute has focused much of its effort on essential workers\u2014those who didn\u2019t have the option to work from home and who have risked their lives to keep the healthcare system, grocery stores, and other vital sectors open, often for low wages and with few mechanisms to safeguard their health.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A National Labor Leadership Initiative session hosted by the Institute. (Clark Jones)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This includes a first-of-its-kind report that examined the harsh conditions and dangers faced by New York City’s app-based delivery drivers and couriers<\/a> in the unregulated digital platform economy. Another study looked at the low wages and precarious conditions of nail salon workers in New York State<\/a>, who typically had little say in whether their employers complied with COVID regulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other research has charted racial, gender, and economic disparities in the workplace that have been exacerbated by the pandemic\u2014such as a study of a peer education program addressing sexual harassment and violence in California\u2019s janitorial industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the studies looking at today\u2019s quickly changing employment landscape have resulted in policy changes and rights-protection laws targeted to the gig economy, and are driving broader proposals in the New York State Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the 2021 report on food delivery drivers, published by the Institute and the NYC-based Worker\u2019s Justice Project, helped push through a city law\u2014the first of its kind in the nation\u2014to set minimum pay and work conditions, an initial step in regulating what has become a multibillion-dollar industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campos-Medina at a union leadership retreat on Long Island in May. (Courtesy of Worker Institute)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And while some unions\u2014which have long been structured toward representing workers in industrial manufacturing, who have historically been white and male\u2014are responding to these evolving needs, Campos-Medina notes that many have not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnions need to change, to allow for different strategies and more innovation at the grassroots level,\u201d she says, \u201cand they need to support the workers who have the courage to organize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of her colleagues at the Institute is also her former teacher: Risa Lieberwitz<\/a>, its academic director. On the ILR faculty for four decades, the professor of labor and employment law helps tie the school\u2019s research to real-world policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood practice is based on good theory,\u201d she notes. \u201cAnd bridging the extension and resident sides of ILR has always been an important goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridging the extension and resident sides of ILR has always been an important goal.<\/p>\nRisa Lieberwitz<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A focus on those connections has informed the educations of ILR students like master\u2019s candidate Victor Yengle. Having studied economics and political science as an undergrad and worked as a community and labor rights organizer for more than seven years, he came to the Hill to research worker-led initiatives and to design remedies for human and labor rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a graduate fellowship, he has worked closely with Institute faculty and staff to organize events like the school\u2019s Labor Roundtable and annual Union Days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn class, we\u2019re learning about labor rights and labor law\u2014and we also see how they interact in the workplace through the Institute,\u201d he says. \u201cIt has helped me figure out the intersection between research and impact.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by early activism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Campos-Medina returned to her alma mater in 2015 to lead the Institute\u2019s leadership development program, assuming her current role as executive director six years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of El Salvador\u2014which was riven by civil war during her childhood in the 1980s\u2014she\u2019s the daughter of political refugees who came to the U.S. as undocumented immigrants. They worked low-wage jobs and sent money home, but it took another nine years for them to win political asylum and to bring Campos-Medina, then 14, and her three brothers to the U.S. legally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family settled in the Alexandria, VA, area\u2014home to a thriving community of immigrants from Central America, Pakistan, and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campos-Medina (center) co-founded the student dance troupe Sabor Latino, which remains active. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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She excelled academically and ultimately followed her older brother (engineering alum Edgar Campos \u201993, BS \u201994) to Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campos-Medina, who had closely watched her parents\u2019 experience and hardships, aimed to study labor rights and employment law.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Her activism on the Hill began on the day she moved into North Campus, when she saw University food service staff and others handing out leaflets in a union organizing drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawn to the cause, she soon became involved with labor-rights issues on and off campus, joining such organizations as ILR\u2019s Committee on Labor Action, Cornell\u2019s Committee on U.S.\/Latin America Relations, and the University\u2019s chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was part of a group of student protestors\u2014including Eduardo Pe\u00f1alver \u201994, who\u2019d go on to serve as dean of the Law School from 2014\u201321\u2014who held a four-day takeover of Day Hall in 1993 that led to additional faculty hires in Latino studies and across campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unions need to support the workers who have the courage to organize.<\/p>\nPatricia Campos-Medina \u201996, MPA \u201997<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese were moments where you had to choose: which side are you on?\u201d she recalls. \u201cAm I in school just for myself? Or am I in school for others\u2014to make sure that others can come behind me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduation, Campos-Medina went to work for the apparel and textile workers union with whom she had collaborated on the anti-sweatshops campaign, serving as a researcher and community organizer in L.A. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She subsequently worked as political director for the Service Employees International Union and as a state and assistant national director for several unions and labor councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1999, Campos-Medina (center left) helped organize a protest of the World Trade Organization, held in Seattle. (Provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After joining the Institute, she earned a PhD in global affairs and political science from Rutgers. As a sideline to her day job, she hosts Activista Rise Up<\/em><\/a>, a podcast devoted to social and economic justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Cornell, Campos-Medina continues to conduct research on immigrant workers\u2019 rights, is a policy adviser to labor unions and worker justice organizations in the service and warehouse industries, and serves as a career liaison to students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have always believed,\u201d she says, \u201cthat the future of the labor movement lies in the young people who are passionate about change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Campos-Medina at the ILR School. (Lindsay France \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published June 10, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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