SMLR Experts In the News

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.

CBS News reports some Amazon workers are forced to urinate in bottles because they don’t have enough time for bathroom breaks, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

The BBC (UK) conducts a live interview with Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, who says, “Amazon is the king of e-commerce, but it’s acting like anything but a benevolent dictator."

Bloomberg Law investigates alleged corruption within the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), quoting Susan Schurman.

Charlie Hebdo (France) writes about the significance of the union vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, quoting Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

Forbes interviews Rebecca Kolins Givan, who says Amazon workers are unhappy about extreme surveillance, grueling working conditions, and “the inhumanity of feeling like they are managed by apps.”

Elemental writes about how the pandemic exposed critical blind spots in science and society, quoting Christopher Hayes on the “brutal way of life” facing low-wage workers.