Labor's Big Moment?

Alexander Colvin, Ph.D., ’99, is the Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman ’75, M.S. ’76, Professor of Conflict Resolution at Cornell University’s ILR School.

Dean Colvin’s research and teaching focuses on employment dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on procedures in non-union workplaces and the impact of the legal environment on organizations. His current research projects include empirical investigations of employment arbitration and cross-national analysis of labor law and dispute resolution. Dean Colvin is the co-author of “An Introduction to U.S. Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations” (with T. Kochan and H. Katz) and of “Arbitration Law “( with K. Stone and R. Bales).

Dean Colvin received his J.D. in 1992 from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in 1999 from Cornell University. He received the 2003 Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) and the 2000 Best Dissertation Award from the IRRA for his dissertation entitled “Citizens and Citadels: Dispute Resolution and the Governance of Employment Relations.” Before joining the faculty of the ILR School, Dean Colvin taught at Penn State University from 1999 to 2008.

Eleanor Mueller is a labor reporter for POLITICO and POLITICOPro covering labor politics and policy, with a focus on legislation. She has written extensively about paid leave and child care, as well as unions, unemployment insurance, and other issues. Mueller joined POLITICO as a copy editor in 2018. Prior to that, she reported out of newsrooms including CNN, McClatchy, USA TODAY, and others.

Lauren Kaori Gurley is a senior staff writer at Motherboard, VICE Media’s tech site, covering the intersection of labor and technology. Her reporting has also been featured in The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, In These Times, and The American Prospect. Gurley was the recipient of the 2021 Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation for her coverage of the Amazon union drive in Bessemer, Alabama, and the 2019 Amnesty International Student Journalism Media Award. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Noam Scheiber is a Chicago-based reporter who covers workers and the workplace. Before coming to The New York Times, he spent nearly 15 years at The New Republic magazine, where he covered economic policy and three presidential campaigns.
His book, “The Escape Artists,” is a narrative of the Obama administration’s efforts to save the economy from the Great Recession. He holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and undergraduate degrees in math and economics from Tulane University.

Based in Washington, D.C., Paige Smith is a labor and employment reporter with Bloomberg Law, where she covers a range of topics related to employment law. In the past year, she has reported stories ranging from whether your employer can offer a cash incentive to encourage you to get a vaccine to whether caste discrimination is currently illegal under existing federal law. Smith also covers the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.