ILRGL 2220: Employee Voice at Work - Yang (Fall 2025): Policy Documents & News

A directory of Think Tanks, IGOs and NGOs, with books, reports and other publications, including the publications of organizations no longer in existence. Researchers can also "follow" an organization or topic, create lists, and limit a search to publications with statistical tables.

"Initiated in 1993 ... he Policy Agendas Project developed a coding scheme utilizing 19 major topic and 225 subtopic codes. Codes are assigned based on policy content and are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. All activities are categorized, and each item (such as a congressional hearing) is assigned one and only one category...
The series include Congressional hearings, public laws, roll call votes, Congressional Quarterly coverage, Presidential State of the Union speeches, Executive Orders, Supreme Court cases, a sample of New York Times articles, and Gallup’s Most Important Problem public opinion series. In addition, the Project tabulates Congressional Budget Authority using the Office of Management and Budget’s categorization. We also work with the Congressional Bills Project to make available Congressional bills introduced, and with James Stimson to make available Policy Moods opinion data on an issue-by-issue basis. The total number of observations across all series is almost 260,000 (over 500,000 including Congressional bills)." [Website]

Labor Notes is a monthly publication and organization devoted to the activities of grassroots labor and union activists. The web site offers selected articles from the current and recent (past year) issues, plus sells Labor Notes books and pamphlets.

"New York’s leading source of news for politics and economic issues affecting workers."

LabourStart is an online news service maintained by a global network of volunteers, which aims to serve the international trade union movement by collecting and disseminating information. Its features include daily labor news links in 17 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 630 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union, and alternative news sources by a network of nearly 350 volunteer correspondents based on every continent.

Highlights of ILR Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students in the news.

Selected by the Catherwood Library Reference Staff each Monday through Friday, excluding University holidays, WIT is a free alert service, providing abstracts and links to workplace-related news stories covered in the major media.

This is an historical bibliography of U.S. labor union periodicals. (November 2010) It includes links to web locations for many of the periodicals. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of sources for labor union news and two brief studies on the 2010 state of union communications.