SMLR Shares Expertise on How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing the World of Work

Fast Company publishes an op-ed by Kyra Leigh Sutton about why she encourages her students to use generative AI, noting that 91% of employers value that experience.

Jacobin publishes an article by Eric Blanc about the way “young, radicalized, digitally coordinated workers” are leading a new kind of labor organizing.

Jacobin runs an interview with Eric Blanc about why the successful labor organizing strategies of the 1930s are no longer effective today.

Fortune writes about people who pretend to be in a Zoom meeting in order to look busy or avoid talking to their co-workers, quoting Jessica Methot.

The Boston Globe talks to Eric Blanc and Rebecca Kolins Givan about the teachers strike in Newton, Massachusetts and the potential for more education strikes in the state.

Fortune reports on the growing number of union campaigns. David (DK) Kryscynski says too many employers view organizing as an external threat, rather than a chance to look inward.

Jacobin talks to Eric Blanc about the recent surge in labor militancy across the country and what unions must do to reverse decades of declining membership.

Financial Times reports the unionization rate remains low despite recent high-profile victories. Christopher Hayes says it will take “a lot of stars to line up” to change that.

WHYY interviews Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) about the union organizing effort at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia.

Convergence Magazine publishes an article co-authored by Liz Perlman of AFSCME 3299 and Sandra Jeong Lane of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.