SMLR Experts In the News

The Los Angeles Times reports on a study by the Workplace Justice Lab@RU, which finds that minimum wage theft is rising sharply in Los Angeles fast food restaurants.

The New Republic explores how unions can challenge President Trump. Eric Blanc says they must “fill the political vacuum created by the Democratic Party’s disarray.”

Telemundo 52 covers a Workplace Justice Lab@RU study on minimum wage theft in Los Angeles fast food restaurants. The average victim loses nearly $3,500 annually.

The Guardian publishes an op-ed by Eric Blanc, arguing that organized labor can help to counter President Trump’s “shock-and-awe offensive.”

Vox examines how progressives can defeat President Trump’s political agenda, quoting Eric Blanc on the power of collective action in the workplace.

Jacobin publishes an article by Eric Blanc detailing how federal workers can stand up to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.

USA TODAY writes about the Black labor leaders who are standing up to the Trump administration, quoting Danielle Phillips-Cunningham.

Bloomberg talks to Rosemarie Cipparulo about the Department of Government Efficiency’s controversial deferred resignation offer to the federal workforce.

The Record examines how the loss of remote work harms people with disabilities, quoting Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research.

Rutgers Today publishes a Q&A with Danielle Phillips-Cunningham about her book on Nannie Helen Burroughs, who started her own school for Black women and girls in 1909.