Rebecca Givan In the News

Quartz reports the Dartmouth Men’s Basketball team has voted to join SEIU Local 560, becoming the first college sports team to unionize. Rebecca Kolins Givan is quoted.

The Washington Post reports some independent coffee shops have closed to avoid a unionization effort. Rebecca Kolins Givan says the fines for doing so are “basically nonexistent.”

Courthouse News Service reports on UAW’s ongoing effort to organize non-union auto plants in Alabama and Tennessee, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The Boston Globe talks to Eric Blanc and Rebecca Kolins Givan about the teachers strike in Newton, Massachusetts and the potential for more education strikes in the state.

The New York Times reports some unions are conflicted over how to respond to the Israel-Hamas war, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The Washington Post interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about the most significant union contract agreements and organizing victories of 2023.

Detroit Free Press talks to Rebecca Kolins Givan about the UAW’s bold plan to organize auto plants in the traditionally anti-union South.  

Bloomberg Law reports Microsoft has agreed to provide increased training for workers and collaboration with unions on AI standards, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Bloomberg Law reports 95% of OpenAI’s workforce is threatening to resign if the Board does not reinstate CEO Sam Altman. Rebecca Kolins Givan is quoted.

Bloomberg reports the UAW’s new contract agreements with Ford, GM, and Stellantis provide two weeks of paid parental leave to workers, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.