SMLR Experts In the News

StudyFinds summarizes research on the enduring value of a college education. Xiangmin (Helen) Liu co-authored the study.

Fortune writes about people who pretend to be in a Zoom meeting in order to look busy or avoid talking to their co-workers, quoting Jessica Methot.

America’s Work Force Union Podcast features an interview with Marilyn Sneiderman of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

Quartz reports the Dartmouth Men’s Basketball team has voted to join SEIU Local 560, becoming the first college sports team to unionize. Rebecca Kolins Givan is quoted.

Patch runs Mayor Ras Baraka’s press release about the Newark Women Moving Forward financial initiative. A study by the Center for Women and Work is cited.

In These Times reports on a Bargaining for the Common Good campaign in Minnesota, quoting Marilyn Sneiderman of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

The Washington Post reports some independent coffee shops have closed to avoid a unionization effort. Rebecca Kolins Givan says the fines for doing so are “basically nonexistent.”

Jacobin publishes an article by Eric Blanc about Starbucks and Workers United jointly announcing that they will begin bargaining a first contract in earnest.

Common Dreams writes about Starbucks and Workers United agreeing to bargain a first contract, quoting Eric Blanc. He says it is “hard to overstate how big a deal this is.”

Courthouse News Service reports on UAW’s ongoing effort to organize non-union auto plants in Alabama and Tennessee, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.