<p>Haha, well since this seems to be a ILR FAQ thread, I might as well ask: I take it more students/professors in ILR generally have a (pro-union) stance? Will being anti-union ostracize one from the community? My ILR interviewer worked at GM essentially as a union-breaker, but after doing some research online, I get the feeling that the ILR curriculum is supposed to do the opposite? Thanks!</p>
<p>"I take it more students/professors in ILR generally have a (pro-union) stance?"
not really, only in the departments of labor history and collective bargaining. You probably wont be doing a whole lot of union talk otherwise. </p>
<p>"Will being anti-union ostracize one from the community?"
not really, but i wouldn't bring up anti-union stuff until you learn about what's taught first. </p>
<p>"My ILR interviewer worked at GM essentially as a union-breaker, but after doing some research online, I get the feeling that the ILR curriculum is supposed to do the opposite?"
there is a pro-union part to ilr, but things are usually taught pretty well rounded - like, classes aren't taught on why unions are good, but rather the history of their formation, why they were formed in the 1800's and so forth. Collective bargaining discusses how negotiations are made and how the whole process works</p>
<p>The only thing that most ILR profs are against is Wal-Mart. This includes me.</p>
<p>does anybody have a list of notable alumni from ILR?</p>
<p>I don't know the exact list, but the founder of Priceline.com is from ILR.</p>
<p>The ILR alum that most registers in my mind is Harold Tanner, who was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers, one of the elite securities & commodities trading firms in the day, before it was bought out.</p>
<p>I think the Commisioner of the National Hockey League is an ILR alum. But I'm not an ILR guy, I don't really know others.</p>
<p>Basically though, not that many corporate or employment lawyers, or labor union executives, get really famous. No matter where they went to school.</p>
<p>Just a quick lookup of ILR grads I went to school with, off the top of my head : five went to law school at: NYU, NYU, NYU, Harvard, Emory. Three of these are partners at big law firms, one is a partner at a small firm, and one is in-house at a "hot" corporation. Another ILR alum I know got a PhD at a top grad program and is a professor. </p>
<p>All of them are doing fine, but none of them is on a track to get famous.</p>
<p>One got an MBA from a good program right from college and I don't know where he is now.</p>
<p>Then there are some real bozos:
My freshman roommmate flunked out. So I guess he doesn't count.</p>
<p>And then there was this complete idiot in my upperclassman suite who transferred from some bad college, where he aced out,and wanted desperately to go to law school. I'm not sure he ever got there though, since he was barely passing in ILR and had the IQ of a toad.</p>
<p>I can't tell you whatever happened to these yahoos. But obviously they did not drag the others down. My experience is, in the end, you basically get what you personally deserve, on your own merits not so much your school's coattails.</p>
<p>yeah, well I am not necessarly looking for "famous" alumni, just confirmation that successful people have come from there....</p>
<p>your posts are hilarious, monydad, thanks for comming back for the time being.</p>