Reporters and editors in need of sources to discuss public employee benefit plans, collective bargaining, right-to-work laws, outsourcing, privatization of public services, labor union strategy and tactics, employment policy and other local, regional or national labor issues can contact any of these University of Michigan labor experts:

Roland Zullo, assistant research scientist at the U-M Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy, (734) 647-0687 or [email protected]. New paper on right to work in Michigan: www.ilir.umich.edu/LSC/Publications/RightToWorkInMichigan.pdf.

Ian Robinson, research scientist and lecturer in the U-M Department of Sociology, (734) 647-4347 or (734) 647-6713 or [email protected]. Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eian.

Greg Saltzman, adjunct research scientist at the U-M Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy and professor of economics and management at Albion College, (517) 629-0422 or (734) 936-1311 or [email protected]. Website: http://campus.albion.edu/gsaltzman.