LSER Experts In the News

Healthcare Dive reports more than 1,000 workers are preparing to walk off the job to demand safe staffing levels, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan of the Center for Work and Health.

The New York Times interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about her new study, which finds that minimum wage violations go up during periods of high unemployment. | The Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, South Florida Sun Sentinel, and several other newspapers republish the story.

Jonathan Van Ness interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan for his Getting Curious podcast. | Transcript

KPFA Radio’s Flashpoints interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about her new study on minimum wage compliance in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports more than half of the city’s domestic workers are victims of wage theft, quoting Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and citing a study she co-authored with research fellows Daniel Galvin and Jenn Round.

HuffPost interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about why the boycott by NBA, WNBA, and MLB players was actually a strike.

Bloomberg Government reports the Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated 51 contracts since 2018, quoting Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

Vanity Fair writes about the disconnect between police unions and the rest of organized labor, quoting Sheri Davis of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

The Counter reports on the FDA’s new worker safety checklist, quoting Susan Schurman who says “there’s no way to know if anyone’s following it.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education writes about how unions representing faculty, staff, and graduate students are now working together to protect their members during the pandemic, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.