LSER Experts In the News

The Detroit Free Press investigates whether the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration is helping big businesses by misclassifying worker deaths as suicides, quoting Susan Schurman.

Winsight Grocery Business, a trade magazine for the supermarket industry, reports on the strike by 31,000 Stop & Shop workers, quoting Francis Ryan.

Nonprofit Quarterly publishes an op-ed on the ways employee ownership can level the playing field, citing research by Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

NJBIZ explores how New Jersey’s public sector unions are faring after the Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan and Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) director Michael Merrill.

The Hill publishes an op-ed by Rebecca Kolins Givan, arguing Democrats have shifted from attacking teachers’ unions to embracing them in the run up to the 2020 presidential election.

The Hartford Courant publishes an op-ed by Todd Vachon, arguing the Green New Deal empowers the labor movement to address climate change and income inequality.

Eater explores the growth of union organizing in the food industry, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Bloomberg Law reports the Green New Deal highlights the importance and challenges of retraining the U.S. workforce, quoting Todd Vachon.

WPVI-TV airs a new installment in the documentary series Philadelphia: The Great Experiment, including part of an interview with Francis Ryan about child labor in the city in the early 20th century.

The Labor Network for Sustainability publishes an op-ed by Todd Vachon, arguing the Green New Deal would achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair transition.