Announcement from Enterprise Editor Lori Montgomery, Economics Editor Damian Paletta and Deputy Economics Editor Jen Liberto:
We’re excited to announce that Lauren Kaori Gurley is becoming a member of the economics crew as The Publish’s labor reporter.
Lauren joins us from Vice’s Motherboard, the place she has lined labor since 2019, producing groundbreaking journalism concerning the circumstances which have spurred an enormous enhance in organizing at a number of the nation’s largest employers. Through the pandemic, Lauren was the primary to cowl walkouts at Amazon, Entire Meals, Instacart and Goal, a insurrection by frontline employees that quickly grew to become nationwide information. Amongst her many scoops have been tales revealing that Amazon had employed the Pinkerton Detective Company [vice.com] to spy on its warehouse employees, that the Teamsters selected Amazon Prime Day to launch a nationwide marketing campaign to unionize the mega-retailer [vice.com], and that Amazon supply drivers have been taking images of their pee bottles [vice.com] to dispute the corporate’s declare that it didn’t deny them time to take rest room breaks. Lauren additionally was among the many first to write down a couple of union drive in Staten Island [vice.com], the place Amazon warehouse employees in April voted to kind the primary union in firm historical past.
Earlier than Vice, Lauren labored as a reporter-researcher on the New Republic. Her reporting additionally has been featured by ProPublica, NPR, the New York Overview of Books, the American Prospect and In These Instances. Apropos for a labor reporter, her first jobs included gallery guard, waitress and barista.
A local of Southern California, Lauren graduated from the College of Chicago with a level in comparative literature. She additionally holds a grasp’s diploma in journalism and Latin American research from New York College. She lives in Brooklyn together with her outspoken terrier, Pacho, however they each sit up for beginning a brand new chapter in Washington.
Please be part of us in welcoming Lauren to the newsroom. Her first day is July 11.
