LSER Experts In the News

Financial Times runs an editorial, quoting Joseph Blasi of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

The Wall Street Journal asks Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) how Yellow’s bankruptcy will affect union organizing in that industry.

The Christian Science Monitor interviews Susan Schurman, who says unions are the only way for workers to get leverage on the job. “There is not another way to do that.”

News 12 New Jersey interviews Christopher Hayes about recent labor actions, including a nurse strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.

Vox reports more than 11,000 sanitation workers, airport employees, traffic officers, engineers, and other workers are striking in Los Angeles. Susan Schurman is quoted.

The Washington Post talks to Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work about the changes proposed under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

Devpolicy Blog, a publication of The Australian National University, writes about a new study co-authored by Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work.

Vox talks to Susan Schurman about the rise of “horizontal solidary” – unions supporting other unions – during the recent wave of strikes.

The Conversation publishes an article summarizing research studies co-authored by Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work.

Scripps News reports younger workers are revitalizing the labor movement, quoting Susan Schurman. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch republishes the story.