LSER Experts In the News

The Washington Post asks Rebecca Kolins Givan why Microsoft’s president is vowing to “make it simpler rather than more difficult” for workers to unionize.

American Educator, the magazine of the American Federation of Teachers, runs an article co-authored by James Boyle and Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN).

USA Today runs a story about Bitty & Beau’s, a coffee shop chain that employs people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research is quoted.

NBC News interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan, who says Starbucks has deployed a “typical anti-union playbook” in response to the nationwide organizing effort at its stores.

NPR interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about the Game Workers Alliance, which now represents about 20 employees at Activision Blizzard.

Forbes runs a contributor piece quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Commonweal cites The Citizen’s Share, a book co-authored by Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing.

Patch reports a study co-authored by Carmen Martino of the Occupational Training and Education Consortium prompted Rep. Donald Norcross to call for an investigation.

MarketScale interviews Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) about Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s response to unionization.

PBS NewsHour reports Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.