LSER Experts In the News

Fortune reports on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s claim that automation will create more factory jobs. Eric Blanc is quoted.

KPFA Radio interviews Eric Blanc about President Trump’s desire for a manufacturing renaissance and why unionization is needed to ensure a living wage.

The New Jersey Democrat asks Susan Schurman why building trades unions support Steve Sweeney’s run for governor, while public sector unions oppose him.

Jacobin publishes an article by Eric Blanc, addressing critics of his new book, “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big.”

Texas Observer examines how Republican state lawmakers are targeting gender and ethnic studies programs in higher education, quoting Danielle Phillips-Cunningham.

Jacobin publishes a review of the book, “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big” by Eric Blanc.

Fortune interviews Eric Blanc about his assertion that “being pro-factory is not the same thing as being pro-worker.”

Jacobin publishes an article by Eric Blanc, arguing that mass unionization is needed to ensure that factory jobs are good jobs.

HoosLeft, a podcast, interviews Eric Blanc about his new book, “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big.”

The Star-Ledger reports more than 10,000 NJ Transit employees worked overtime in 2024. Will Brucher says hiring more full-time workers would reduce OT costs.