This fall LER welcomes its second class of Labor and Global Workers’ Rights (LGWR) students.
The cohort includes seven students from India, Brazil, South Korea, and the United States. They are embarking on a 12-month program in which they will learn about international labor standards and employment relations practices, women and work in the global economy, research and writing for labor practitioners, and labor in China. These mid-career labor unionists and professionals will spend part of the summer interning for US labor unions before returning to Penn State to finalize their capstone projects and finish the program.
On August 15, just one week before the new students arrived, the first group of LGWR students graduated. They included Shirley Pryce, a domestic worker organizer from Jamaica; Michela Cirioni, an Italian unionist, and Zhihang Ruan, a labor researcher from China.
The incoming class includes: