Smlr_net October 2022

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October 31, 2022
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31 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 31, 2022* *Title:* Workers at Trader Joe’s in Brooklyn Reject Union *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Noam Scheiber *Date:* October 28, 2022 *Summary:* The loss raises questions about whether a national wave of unionization may be slowing. A union had won two previous votes at the grocery chain. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3Fw0EAA *Title:* Dropbox CEO on the Boomerang Benefits of Offering Workers Virtual-First Jobs *Source:* CNBC Work *Author:* CNBC.com Staff *Date:* October 28, 2022 *Summary:* For all the corporate leaders out there who are pushing as far as the labor market will let them to hit the reset button on 2019 office life, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston has a message: take yourself into the future instead. *Link:* https://cnb.cx/3sKXlhy *Title:* NBA Wants to Create Upper Limit on Team Salaries, but Players Mounting Significant Resistance, Per Report *Source:* CBS Sports *Author: * Sam Quinn *Date:* October 28, 2022 *Summary:* According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA is pursuing the idea of implementing an upper limit on team salaries in the next CBA. Such a system would replace the luxury tax, according to Wojnarowski. This would effectively create a hard cap in the NBA, though how it would interact with the league's current soft cap is not yet known. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3TPxFwf *Title:* How Much is Long COVID Reducing Labor Force Participation? Not Much (So Far) *Source:* Brookings *Author:* Louise Sheiner and Nasiha Salwati *Date:* October 27, 2022 *Summary:* There is growing evidence that some people infected with the COVID-19 virus experience long-run health problems known as long COVID, potentially leading them to drop out of the labor force. At the same time, the advent of remote work might have increased the participation of people with disabilities. We use data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to assess the effects of long COVID and remote work on the labor force participation and work hours of people with disabilities. *Link:* https://brook.gs/3Dghd0E *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 28, 2022
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28 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 28, 2022* *Title:* What’s the Salary? N.Y.C. Job Seekers Can No Longer Be Kept in the Dark *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Matthew Haag *Date:* October 28, 2022 *Summary:* A new city law going into effect on Tuesday will require companies with at least four employees to post salary ranges for openings, even if the jobs involve remote or hybrid work. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3fkXB3z *Title:* Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Violated Labor Laws with Union Remarks, Federal Agency Alleges *Source:* CNBC *Author:* Annie Palmer *Date:* October 27, 2022 *Summary:* In a complaint late Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board pointed to comments Jassy made in an April interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box” and a June interview at the Bloomberg Tech Summit. *Link:* https://cnb.cx/3DkB9jj *Title:* California Union Alleges that Fast-Food Effort to Block New Labor Law is ‘Willfully Misleading Voters’ *Source:* Los Angeles Times *Author: * Suhauna Hussain *Date:* October 27, 2022 *Summary:* The complaint by Service Employees International Union California, which was filed both with California’s secretary of state and its attorney general’s office Thursday, focuses on a referendum filed in September seeking to repeal AB 257, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Labor Day. The union sponsored the legislation, known as the Fast Recovery Act, to boost protections for fast-food workers. *Link:* https://lat.ms/3zLTchp *Title:* US Unemployment Claims Inched Higher, But Remain Very Low *Source:* Associated Press *Author:* Matt Ott *Date:* October 27, 2022 *Summary:* Jobless claims for the week ending Oct. 22 inched up by 3,000 to 217,000 from 214,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week moving average rose to 219,000 from 212,250 the previous week. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3SSGzYA *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 27, 2022
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27 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 27, 2022* *Title:* A Second Railroad Union Votes Down Biden’s Tentative Agreement *Source:* NPR *Author:* Ximena Bustillo *Date:* October 26, 2022 *Summary:* The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, which represents over 6,000 workers in the United States, announced that its members voted to reject the tentative agreement, sending the union back to the bargaining table with management. In a statement, union president Michael Baldwin notes that it's the first time the union has voted against ratifying an agreement. *Link:* https://n.pr/3TZZ5yX *Title:* Starbucks’ Expanded Benefits for Nonunion Workers is Being Contested in Seattle Hearing *Source:* The Seattle Times *Author:* Renata Geraldo *Date:* October 26, 2022 *Summary:* At the hearing in Seattle that began Tuesday, union lawyers brought to the forefront the question after months of Starbucks announcing several extended benefits, such as wage increases and more tipping options, to nonunion employees. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3U3NT4z *Title:* New York Cleaners Create New Path to Entrepreneurship *Source:* BBC News *Author: * Nathalie Jimenez *Date:* October 26, 2022 *Summary:* Co-opportunity, a New York-based non-profit, acts as the corporate overlord, giving members access to brand, marketing, training and tools like an online scheduling and payment system, that would be costly to create independently. In return, it collects 5% of gross sales, which it says goes towards administrative costs. But unlike a typical franchisor, Co-opportunity is governed by its members, with a "one worker, one vote" rule that applies to decision-making. *Link:* https://bbc.in/3SHjRCD *Title:* NYC Judge Tells City to Rehire Workers Fired for Refusing Vaccination *Source:* Washington Post via Yahoo!News *Author:* Bryan Pietsch *Date:* October 26, 2022 *Summary:* A group of sanitation workers who were fired for refusing to comply with New York City's coronavirus vaccine mandate for government employees should be given back their jobs, as well as retroactive pay, a New York state judge ruled. *Link:* https://yhoo.it/3W8VaSs *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 26, 2022
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26 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 26, 2022* *Title:* Early Retirement Took Off During the Pandemic. An Economic Downturn Could Change That *Source:* NPR *Author:* Andrea Hsu *Date:* October 25, 2022 *Summary:* In September, the share of people 55 and older who were working or looking for work was down 1.5 percentage points as compared with February 2020, according to the Labor Department. (For comparison, prime-age workers, or those 25 to 54 years old, are down just 0.3 percentage points from before the pandemic.) *Link:* https://n.pr/3FzHCJZ *Title:* For Disabled Workers, a Tight Labor Market Opens New Doors *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Ben Casselman *Date:* October 25, 2022 *Summary:* With Covid prompting more employers to consider remote arrangements, employment has soared among adults with disabilities. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3W6NuzS *Title:* A ‘Catastrophe’ is Coming for the Economy, But It’s Not Recession or Inflation, Says Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh *Source:* CNBC Work *Author: * Eric Rosenbaum *Date:* October 25, 2022 *Summary:* There has been a lot of talk about looming layoffs, and by some recent surveying, as many as half of large employers are thinking about labor cost cuts as the economy slows. But U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh doesn’t see the recent job gains reversing, according to an interview at CNBC’s Work Summit on Tuesday. *Link:* https://cnb.cx/3DvR7Z5 *Title:* Workers Without Sick Pay or Family Leave Quit During the Pandemic More Than Those Who Had Benefits, House Report Shows *Source:* NBC News *Author:* Eli M. Rosenberg *Date:* October 25, 2022 *Summary:* Employees at some of the country’s biggest companies who lacked sick pay or family leave quit at significantly higher rates than other workers during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a congressional report released Tuesday — the latest indication how the absence of social safety net policies in the U.S. can affect the labor force. *Link:* https://nbcnews.to/3Dzj9mz *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 25, 2022
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25 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 25, 2022* *Title:* Black Owned Co-Working Space in East Brunswick Focuses on Community *Source:* NJ Advance Media for NJ.com *Author:* Shaylah Brown *Date:* October 24, 2022 *Summary:* Co-working spaces, where different companies come to work in one location, are expected to grow past 40,000 locations by 2024, according to a global co-working growth study. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3TPODdp *Title:* Twitter Employees Protest Elon Musk’s Plan to Fire 75% of Workforce *Source:* Time *Author:* Billy Perrigo *Date:* October 24, 2022 *Summary:* Employees at Twitter are circulating an open letter protesting Elon Musk’s plan to fire as much as 75% of the company’s workforce, as the deadline for him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the company looms, TIME has learned. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3TQv2tx *Title:* University Staff to Strike Over Pay and Pensions *Source:* BBC News *Author: * Alice Evans *Date:* October 24, 2022 *Summary:* University lecturers, librarians and admin staff across the UK will strike over pay and pensions, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced. A total of 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities were asked to vote in two separate ballots - one on pay and working conditions, and another on pensions. *Link:* https://bbc.in/3CWJPvW *Title:* Universal Basic Income Has Been Tested Repeatedly. It Works. Will America Ever Embrace It? *Source:* The Washington Post Magazine *Author:* Megan Greenwell *Date:* October 24, 2022 *Summary:* For as long as America has had a poverty problem — which is to say, for its entire history — a small group of dreamers has proposed guaranteed income as a solution. The idea dates to the year the country was founded: Thomas Paine proposed a type of basic income in his 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense.” *Link:* https://wapo.st/3gIpy5C *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 24, 2022
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24 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 24, 2022* *Title:* Starbucks Showdown in Boston Points to New Phase of Union Campaign *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Noam Scheiber *Date:* October 24, 2022 *Summary:* The company moved to contain the labor push after it took off nationally. Now, with strikes and other tactics, organizers seek to regain momentum. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3DriP9g *Title:* Paying the Disabled Like Everyone Else Would Reduce Poverty, Economists Say *Source:* Ohio Capital Journal *Author:* Marty Schladen *Date:* October 24, 2022 *Summary:* Ohio’s minimum wage is set to increase in January from $9.30 an hour to $10.10, but unless the law changes the disabled will be left far behind. They can currently earn the state’s “subminimum” wage of $4.25 an hour and can be paid substantially less than that, NBC 4 reported. Now Ohio Reps. Brigid Kelly, D-Cincinnati, and Dontavius Jerrells, D-Columbus want to raise it to where it will be for most other workers. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3VUfpmE *Title:* Wisconsin Workers Show Renewed Energy After Decade of Anti-Union Laws *Source:* PBS Wisconsin / Wisconsin Watch *Author: * Jacob Resneck *Date:* October 19, 2022 *Summary:* While union leaders say private sector efforts to organize are on the rise, formerly unionized employees switch tactics, using a collective voice to force change. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3TxrLzq *Title:* Iran’s Labor Strikes Give Protest Movement Added Momentum *Source:* The Wall Street Journal (Access via Free Limited Accounts or Rutgers Libraries) *Author:* Benoit Faucon *Date:* October 23, 2022 *Summary:* Iran’s labor unions are helping antigovernment protests maintain momentum by calling for strikes at oil facilities, schools and factories, opening another front in the upheaval inside the country. *Link:* https://on.wsj.com/3eZDFTO *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 21, 2022
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21 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 21, 2022* *Title:* Fewer Americans Apply for Jobless Benefits Last Week *Source:* Associated Press *Author:* Matt Ott *Date:* October 20, 2022 *Summary:* Considered a proxy for layoffs, applications for jobless aid have remained historically low since the initial purge of more than 20 million jobs at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3DiGCs6 *Title:* Amazon Workers Fail to Reach Strike Threshold in Historic UK Ballot *Source:* BBC News *Author:* BBC News *Date:* October 20, 2022 *Summary:* The first ever ballot for strikes at a UK Amazon warehouse site has failed to reach the legal threshold for industrial action. According to union GMB, it was missed by just three votes, despite 99% of those who took part backing action. UK law states at least 50% of members entitled to vote must do so for strike ballots to be valid. *Link:* https://bbc.in/3Dill1J *Title:* Railroads Reject Latest Proposal from Third Largest Union, As Strike Date Looms *Source:* CNN Business *Author: * Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore *Date:* October 20, 2022 *Summary:* BMWED proposed seven paid sick days — up to 56 hours per year — as part of a new contract agreement, which the railroads outright rejected, according to Peter Kennedy, BMWED’s director of strategic coordination and research. *Link:* https://cnn.it/3eNVbdx *Title:* Organized Labor Groups Call on Leaders to Oppose “Right to Work” Legislation *Source:* Fox 21 Local News *Author:* Sophie Varner *Date:* October 20, 2022 *Summary:* Wednesday, a number of organized labor groups called on candidates and lawmakers to oppose what is known as “Right to Work” legislation. In many states it allows workers at a company the choice about whether or not they want to join the union. Labor leaders said they have opposed such legislation in the past and will do so again. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3MS9DxL *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 20, 2022
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20 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 20, 2022* *Title:* They Inhaled Asbestos for Decades on the Job. Now, Workers Break Their Silence *Source:* NPR / ProPublica *Author:* Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi *Date:* October 20, 2022 *Summary:* Now, the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to finally outlaw asbestos in a test case with huge implications. If the agency fails to ban a substance so widely established as harmful, scientists and public health experts argue, it would raise serious doubts about the EPA's ability to protect the public from any toxic chemicals. *Link:* https://n.pr/3saFWhT *Title:* Burned Out on Your Personal Brand *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Emma Goldberg *Date:* October 20, 2022 *Summary:* Younger workers embraced the idea of a personal brand as a way to get ahead, and carve out some power and security in their careers. But posting through it has its drawbacks. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3VIXa3l *Title:* America’s Disappearing Income Inequality *Source:* Cato Institute *Author: * Scott Lincicome and Ilana Blumsack *Date:* October 19, 2022 *Summary:* A new study from Cato adjunct scholar John Early explores how the Census Bureau overstates U.S. inequality by excluding taxes and welfare payments from the agency’s income estimates. Early shows that, when accounting for the taxes Americans (mostly middle‐ and higher‐income) pay out of their own income and the welfare payments Americans (mostly lower‐income) receive, 2017 income inequality between the top and bottom households shrinks from almost 17‐to‑1 to just 4‑to‑1. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3MN6CPt *Title:* Hyundai to ‘Sever Relations’ With Alabama Suppliers Accused of Child Labor ‘As Soon As Possible’ *Source:* AL.com *Author:* Howard Koplowitz *Date:* October 19, 2022 *Summary:* Hyundai intends to “sever relations” with SL Alabama and SMART Alabama “as soon as possible,” Global Chief Operating Officer Jose Munoz said Wednesday to Reuters, the wire service whose investigation unearthed the allegations involving children as young as 12 working for the suppliers. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3Deu05h *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 19, 2022
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19 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 19, 2022* *Title:* The Amazon Labor Union Suffers Another Loss But Vows to Keep Fighting *Source:* Vox *Author:* Jason Del Rey *Date:* October 18, 2022 *Summary:* The Amazon Labor Union has lost its second straight election at an Amazon warehouse, 406-206, delivering a blow to the momentum the new union had built with its historic win in April and underscoring the heavy odds stacked against organizing inside one of the world’s most powerful and richest corporations. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3EPGC3S *Title:* Students, Legal Scholars Push California Universities to Hire Undocumented Students *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Miriam Jordan *Date:* October 19, 2022 *Summary:* With a soaring number of immigrant students not eligible to work legally, a new campaign is urging the influential University of California system to employ undocumented students. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3ScfZJA *Title:* Post-Gazette Journalists Begin Strike, as Contract Impasse Continues *Source:* 90.5 WESA (Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station) *Author: * Patrick Doyle, Julia Zenkevich *Date:* October 18, 2022 *Summary:* Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists started a strike at noon on Tuesday, following unmet demands from the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh that the company "end its illegally declared impasse to contract negotiations" and return to the bargaining table with the union. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3gl5ZjG *Title:* Agency Battling Wave Theft in California is Too Short-Staffed to Do Its Job *Source:* CalMatters *Author:* Alejandro Lazo, Jeanne Kuang and Julie Watts *Date:* October 17, 2022 *Summary:* California’s laws targeting wage theft — which is the failure by bosses to pay workers what they are owed — make it a leader among states, national labor experts say. But in practice, enforcing those laws has not been easy. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3s5unZd *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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October 18, 2022
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18 Oct '22

*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management* *October 18, 2022* *Title:* New Crack in Apple’s Armor as Dozens Strike at Its Stores in Australia *Source:* The New York Times *Author:* Yan Zhuang *Date:* October 17, 2022 *Summary:* The uprising will be of keen interest in the U.S., where a second Apple store voted to unionize last week. *Link:* https://nyti.ms/3yJYGbB *Title:* The Immigrant Workforce Supports Millions of US Jobs *Source:* Brookings *Author:* Dany Bahar, Carlos Daboin Contreras, and Greg Wright *Date:* October 17, 2022 *Summary:* As part of Brookings Workforce of the Future initiative’s ongoing efforts to identify immigration policies that benefit American workers, we present a new perspective on the role that immigrants play in the U.S. economy. Using the “complementarity index,” we show that immigrant workers are broadly complementary to natives, both because immigrants work in occupations that serve an unusually wide range of industries, and also because immigrant-intensive occupations often complement other jobs. Acknowledging this complementarity is essential given that current trends in occupation growth imply that the immigrant workforce will become increasingly central to the U.S. economy in the coming years. *Link:* https://brook.gs/3giBFGF *Title:* Alaska Airlines Pilots Approve New Agreement on Wages, Schedules *Source:* The Seattle Times *Author: * Lauren Rosenblatt *Date:* October 17, 2022 *Summary:* The vote comes after Alaska Airlines management and the leadership of its pilot union, the Air Line Pilots Association, agreed to a tentative deal in September, which included pay raises and new work rules that would increase schedule flexibility and decrease the number of days pilots are away from home. The union said the agreement would also increase job security because Alaska Airlines agreed not to outsource flying to regional carriers without a specific exemption from the union. *Link:* https://bit.ly/3T8SKBt *Title:* Trains, Schools Affected as French Unions Call Strike Amid Soaring Inflation *Source:* Reuters *Author:* Benoit Van Overstraeten and Sudip Kar-gupta *Date:* October 18, 2022 *Summary:* Regional train traffic in France was cut by about half on Tuesday as several unions called a nationwide strike, seeking to capitalise on anger with decades-high inflation to expand a weeks-long industrial action at oil refineries to other sectors. There were also some disruption to schools, as the strike primarily affected the public sector. Trade union leaders were hoping workers would be energised by the government's decision to force some of them to go back to work at petrol depots to try and get fuel flowing again, a decision some say put in jeopardy the right to strike. *Link:* https://reut.rs/3MEQE9O *James B. Carey Library* School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/library Email: smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu To unsubscribe from this listserv, visit: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/smlr_net.

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