SMLR Experts In the News

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.

Global Banking and Finance Review publishes a summary of updates to the Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership (CLEO), a database of teaching resources redesigned by Julie Peters and Adria Scharf and housed within the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

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.

New Jersey 101.5 interviews Debra Lancaster of the Center for Women and Work about the disproportionate number of women leaving the workforce.

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.”

Marketplace interviews Javier Morillo, a research fellow in the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, about the challenges facing the labor movement and what to expect after the pandemic.

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.

Forbes publishes a column about the persistent turnout gap between voters with and without disabilities, citing studies by Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research.