SMLR Experts In the News

Action News on 6abc interviews Bill Dwyer about the tense contract negotiations between NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

Houston Landing reports the city has recouped lost wages in only a handful of wage theft cases, quoting Jenn Round of the Workplace Justice Lab@RU.

NBC New York interviews Bill Dwyer about the looming NJ Transit strike. The union representing train engineers is demanding higher pay on par with other railroads.

NJBIZ reports on the tense negotiations between NJ Transit and the union representing train engineers. Bill Dwyer says, “This is about as arduous as it gets in the world of labor relations.”

Jacobin publishes an interview with Eric Blanc about his new book, “We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big.”

NJBIZ runs an op-ed by a former employee-owner at National Van Lines, praising the new partnership between the NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership and the state.

The Record reports on an Assembly bill that would change the way tipped workers are paid. The story cites a wage theft study by the Workplace Justice Lab@RU.

Rutgers Today publishes a Q&A with Bill Dwyer about the looming NJ Transit strike. He says it would be a “public relations nightmare” for both management and the union.

The Star-Ledger reports on last-minute negotiations to avert a possible NJ Transit strike. Bill Dwyer, who negotiated labor contracts at PSE&G, shares expert insights.

theAnalysis.news interviews Eric Blanc about May Day protests and the growing role of unionized workers opposing President Trump's agenda.