LSER Experts In the News

Law360 writes about how Amazon instilled “anxiety and uncertainty” among the workforce in Bessemer, Alabama, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

NBC News interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about how an employer like Amazon “successfully busts the union by instilling fear and uncertainty into the workers.”

ABC33/40 in Birmingham interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about the union’s plan to challenge the results.

Newsweek publishes an op-ed by Rebecca Kolins Givan of the Center for Work and Health, arguing that the national COVID-19 vaccination program could serve as a model for single payer healthcare.

AlterNet explores how online voting helps people with disabilities, citing a study by Douglas Kruse and Lisa Schur of the Program for Disability Research.

NPR interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan about the union’s loss at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. (Transcript)

BBC News reports workers in Bessemer voted 1,798 to 738 against unionizing, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Protocol interviews Susan Schurman about why the RWDSU should form a minority union, similar to one UAW created at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee in 2014.

The Birmingham News quotes Will Brucher, who says “community-based, grassroots organizing can succeed, even against a powerful employer like Amazon.”

Raw Story quotes Will Brucher on the resilience of the labor movement. The story, originally published by Agence France Presse, appears on numerous other sites.