SMLR Experts In the News

Fortune interviews Janice Fine about the early success of the Alphabet Workers Union.

Recode by Vox writes about how unions and workers might approach the next organizing drive at an Amazon facility, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The Verge quotes Rebecca Kolins Givan, who says U.S. labor law is “stacked against the people it’s meant to protect.”

Bloomberg interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about the labor movement’s history of “failing forward.”

Protocol interviews Susan Schurman about why the RWDSU should form a minority union, similar to one UAW created at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee in 2014.

Newsweek publishes an op-ed by Rebecca Kolins Givan of the Center for Work and Health, arguing that the national COVID-19 vaccination program could serve as a model for single payer healthcare.

CBS News reports the union plans to challenge the election results over Amazon’s alleged interference in the vote, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Raw Story quotes Will Brucher on the resilience of the labor movement. The story, originally published by Agence France Presse, appears on numerous other sites. 

NPR interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about the union’s loss at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. (Transcript)

CNET writes about how Amazon “bombarded” the Bessemer workforce with anti-union messaging, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.