Archive: Bargaining for the Common Good
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REPORT: Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Today, the Bargaining for the Common Good Network released a report with our friends at the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund on the explosion of wealth a
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, News
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Webinar: Taxing the Rich and Bargaining for Racial Justice in Connecticut
On February 24th, hundreds of members of the Bargaining for the Common Good network gathered virtually to hear from organizers from SEIU 1199 NE and members of Bridgeport Generation Now about a groun
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events, News
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Mapping the Common Good: Lessons for Building BCG Campaigns
Over 150 activists and organizers from across the country gathered to learn about how to use the Bargaining for the Common Good network’s innovative mapping tool to help build innovative campaigns.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events
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WCP: Bargaining for the Common Good Comes of Age
The week-long strike by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) in January 2019 marked the most significant struggle yet in a movement by teachers and other public-sector workers called Bargaining for the Common Good.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Labor’s Day, More or Less?
The U.S. labor movement is facing bitter legal and political attacks. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective Wade Rathke asserts that the talk of unions dying off is greatly exaggerated. Rathke points to a surge of worker-led organizing across the country and the ability of unions in other parts of the world to thrive in even harder circumstances than the ones set by Janus.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars
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Academics, Organizers, and Activists Gather to Address Bank Worker Organizing
On Thursday, July 19, the AFL-CIO, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the CWA, the Committee for Better Banks, Rutgers’ Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, and the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a discussion on the importance of organizing bank workers. The event featured introductory remarks from the KI’s Director Joseph McCartin and Sara Burke from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, followed by an overview of Bargaining for the Common Good presented by KI fellow Stephen Lerner and Lisa Donner from Americans for Financial Reform and a panel discussion featuring organizers, bank employees, and union staff members who have been deeply engaged in this work.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events
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KI Luncheon Shines Spotlight on Workers’ Retirement Security
On Tuesday, July 18, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a luncheon discussion on a fundamental challenge facing working people in America: retirement security. More specifically, the event focused on the enormous fees paid to Wall Street fund managers who invest workers’ pensions in risky alternative assets such as private equity and hedge funds.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events
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Community and Labor Organizers Plot to Bargain for Racial Justice
Attendees of the three-day conference converged at the old National Labor College, which has been renovated as the Tommy Douglas Conference Center. The gathering was hosted by a steering committee of representatives from labor and community organizations and convened by Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the Rutgers School of Management Labor Relations’ Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, and the Action Center on Race and the Economy.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events
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WCP: Fighting the Money Mongers
As we learned from the Wells Fargo scandal, banks have the capacity to rob poor and working-class people. Consumers have little recourse when this occurs because they cannot afford the legal costs o
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars
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Finance Expert Dawn Carpenter Joins KI to Advance the Dignity of Work and a Just Economy
The Kalmanovitz Initiative is excited to welcome Dawn M. Carpenter as its new Practitioner Fellow! Dawn is a doctoral candidate in liberal studies at Georgetown University where she is researching
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, People, Practitioner Fellows