SMLR Experts In the News

Marketplace talks to Francis Ryan about how “the COVID crisis has lifted the sanitation worker into the public consciousness.”

The River writes about two Amazon facilities opening in New York’s Hudson Valley, quoting Will Brucher who says not all jobs are good jobs.

CNET reports Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama will vote again on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The Counter reports workers at four Starbucks stores in Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, and Oregon have filed for union elections, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The Wall Street Journal reports on the scheduled revote, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan who says the odds are once again stacked against the union.

Marketplace interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan of the Center for Work and Health about the pay gap between travel nurses and staff nurses, and the tension that creates.

Scientific American talks to Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work about her research on the extensive financial costs of restrictive abortion laws.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes about an employee-owned trucking company in Western Pennsylvania, citing research by the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

The Hill reports the CDC is reducing the isolation period to five days for asymptomatic cases, quoting Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN).

The Nation publishes an op-ed by Janice Fine of the workplace justice lab@RU about the tornado that killed six workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.