SMLR Experts In the News

The Conversation publishes an essay by Simon Pek, a research fellow in the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

VICE reports on legislation that would allow 14-year-olds in Iowa to work six-hour night shifts. Eric Blanc calls it a “pretty unprecedented attack” on the labor movement.

BBC Business Daily interviews Paula Voos about the history of tipping in the U.S. and how the practice has changed in recent years.

The Wall Street Journal publishes an op-ed about new research that finds success can actually hurt a winning team. Christopher To co-authored the study.

Insider quotes Susan Schurman, who says Chris Smalls and the Amazon Labor Union should be focused on securing their first contract.

Bloomberg Law examines how the rise of remote work has affected people with disabilities, quoting Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research.

Insider reports on growing tensions within the Amazon Labor Union, including a physical fight between its president, Chris Smalls, and a worker. Susan Schurman is quoted.

WIRED interviews Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) about a worker shortage in the renewable energy sector.

VICE asks Eric Blanc why strikes are so much tamer in the U.S. than in France. He says, “The U.S. has the most anti-democratic labor laws of any industrialized country.”

The New York Times reports on the death of longtime union activist and writer Jane LaTour, who earned a master’s degree in Labor Studies at Rutgers in 1977.