SMLR Experts In the News

Marketplace Tech examines how voting accessibility affects turnout, citing data from the Program for Disability Research.

Forbes cites a voting accessibility study by the Program for Disability Research and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Truthout writes about the looming threat of a nationwide rail strike, quoting Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN).

Marketplace interviews Michael C. Sturman, who says firing employees by email is “like breaking up in a relationship by text.”

Arbets Världen (Sweden) examines how the U.S. midterm elections could affect the labor movement, quoting Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN).

Insider examines how younger workers are turbocharging the resurgent labor movement, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

CNN Business reports on allegations of union busting in Starbucks stores, quoting Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN).

The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cites data from the Program for Disability Research.

Savannah Morning News examines voting accessibility in Georgia, citing a study by the Program for Disability Research.

In this piece in The Progressive Magazine, author Sarah Jaffe describes how the CIO benefited from the momentum generated by overlapping protest movements: tenant, immigrant, and anti-racist organizing, all in response to the massive crisis of the Great Depression. Against this background of desperation, the organizers of the 1930s were willing to put resources behind a new path for organizing. Marilyn Sneiderman says that is what unions and organizers should emulate. “This is a time for some massive experimentation, some radical risk-taking, pushing every boundary.”