SMLR Experts In the News

Over the past half-century, labor activists Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen Lerner have been responsible for spurring major strategic advances in union organizing and movement building. In this episode of the "Reinventing Solidarity Podcast," they discuss their recent New Labor Forum article, titled “Making Hope and History Rhyme: A New Worker Movement from the Shell of the Old“.

In this New Labor Forum article, authors Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen Lerner reflect on the lessons of the past half-century & assess the strategic challenges and opportunities confronting a new generation of workers, activists, and organizers.

The Tributary interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan, who says a growing number of institutions are trying to decertify their faculty unions.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports healthcare workers and their unions are fighting for stronger contracts, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan of the Center for Work and Health.

ETF reports the two largest exchange-traded fund issuers are moving to increase investor input on proxy voting, quoting Peter Rokkos.

HR Dive publishes an op-ed by Kyra Leigh Sutton, who surveyed 121 of her undergraduate students about what they are seeing in their own workplaces.

WQAD, the ABC-TV affiliate in the Quad Cities, interviews Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) about the possibility of a rail strike.

The Star-Ledger runs an op-ed by Janice Fine of the workplace justice lab@RU and Carmen Martino of the Occupational Training and Education Consortium.

Patch previews the upcoming New Jersey Senate vote on the Temporary Workers Bill of Rights, citing data from the Center for Women and Work.

New Jersey 101.5 News reports 14 of 15 rail unions have reached a contract agreement, quoting Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN).