Archive:In the News
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Kalmanovitz practitioner fellow Debbie Berkowitz warns Recent OSHA decision could send the message “OSHA is giving employers a pass” when workers are “seriously injured” | TIME Magazine
Debbie Berkowitz, a former OSHA adviser who is now a fellow at Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, reviewed the OSHA file for the DPR Construction incident and tol
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Kalmanovitz practitioner fellow Debbie Berkowitz Quoted in AFL-CIO Report “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect”
The AFL-CIO’s 35th Annual ‘Death on the Job’ Report provides a national and state-by-state analysis of workers’ health and safety and policy recommendations for how the government can better protect
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“Five Things the New BLS Union Membership Statistics Don’t Tell You” – Associate Director Lane Windham for In These Times Magazine
America’s labor movement has been going through a transition over the last decade that is far more layered and nuanced — and that holds more potential for future growth — than the BLS annual membersh
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“UAW-Volkswagen Deal Presents Pivotal Win as Challenges Mount” Lane Windham for Bloomberg
The deal could increase workers’ interest in joining a union, particularly at locations where the UAW had previously tried to organize. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we see increased organizing acti
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Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later| Lane Windham in New Labor Forum
On December 19, 2024, Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike in Queens, New York and was arrested. Photo: Luis Feliz Leon Read the full Article in New Lab
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As the ILA strike pauses, Lane Windham Discusses What’s at Stake
Listen here on Background Briefing Lane Windham is an experienced organizer, educator, historian and activist. She holds a doctoral degree in U.S. history and her book about union organizing in t
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US Dealmakers Forced to Adjust as Unions Flex Their Muscles
Lane Windham, associate director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, said unions began taking an active shareholder approach in the 1970s. “What is
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Despite “weak,” U.S Labor Law, Labor Activity is Heating up in Alabama for Auto Workers. The KI’s Lane Windham Weighs in for Alabama.com
...Lane Windham is a labor historian with Georgetown University. She said an uptick in union activity has been taking place nationwide since the pandemic, as ideas about work changed. The demands
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Debbie Berkowitz Discusses Worker Safety in Chicken Processing with the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Listen Here In this podcast with the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Berkowitz teases out in vivid detail how, in the more than 40 years since, the industry has systematically ignored thi
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Several Higher Ed Organizations in Philly Gather for #LaborSpring
On April 5th, Outside City Hall in downtown Philadelphia, over 50 workers and supporters gathered to speak up and speak out on the unjust conditions under which contingent faculty (part time and non
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