SMLR Experts In the News

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

Marketplace interviews Todd Vachon of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) about how U.S. labor law benefits employers like Amazon.

MarketWatch quotes Rebecca Kolins Givan in the headline of its story about Amazon’s victory in Bessemer, Alabama.

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

Motherboard by VICE examines the “imbalance of labor law” that contributed to the outcome in Alabama, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

BBC News reports workers in Bessemer voted 1,798 to 738 against unionizing, 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.”

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

Law360 reports on Amazon’s early edge in the Bessemer union election, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Law360 reports New York’s recreational marijuana law requires cannabis employers and unions to enter into labor peace agreements, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.