SMLR Experts In the News

Law360 writes about how Amazon instilled “anxiety and uncertainty” among the workforce in Bessemer, Alabama, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Marketplace interviews Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) about how U.S. labor law benefits employers like Amazon.

ABC33/40 in Birmingham interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about the union’s plan to challenge the results.

MarketWatch quotes Rebecca Kolins Givan in the headline of its story about Amazon’s victory in Bessemer, Alabama.

AlterNet explores how online voting helps people with disabilities, citing a study by Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research.

Motherboard by VICE examines the “imbalance of labor law” that contributed to the outcome in Alabama, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

BBC News reports workers in Bessemer voted 1,798 to 738 against unionizing, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The Birmingham News quotes Will Brucher, who says “community-based, grassroots organizing can succeed, even against a powerful employer like Amazon.”

NBC News interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about how an employer like Amazon “successfully busts the union by instilling fear and uncertainty into the workers.”

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