Archive: In the News

• CHATLANI: Intersections of Race and Class in the Environment

  Shalina Chatlani (SFS '17) interns for Industry Dive and is an Undergraduate Writing Fellow for the Kalmanovitz Initiative. We are proud to host her blog posts on our website, including this thought

  Categories: In the News, Student Leaders Tags: CIW, Class, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Environmental Justice, Race, Shalina Chatlani, Working-Class Perspectives

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Mar 4, 2016)

  Missed out on labor news last week? We have you covered! In foul trouble. Labor rights advocates are accusing Nike of taking a big backward step in supply chain accountability by denying the Work

  Category: In the News Tags: Attorneys, Big Banks, Costco, Day Laborers, Digital media, Gawker, Higher education, Lawyers, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Nike, Outsourcing, Overtime, Tom Perez, Uber, Worker Rights Consortium, WRC

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 26, 2016)

  [caption id="attachment_3374" align="aligncenter" width="981"] Photo credit: Jorge Ribas / The Washington Post[/caption] Catch up on the week's best labor stories in five minutes! Birthing a Supah P

  Category: In the News Tags: Apples, Cole Strangler, Fordham University, Hedge Funds, Lydia DePillis, NLRB, Overtime, Pope Francis, Super PAC, Supply chain, Tipping

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 19, 2016)

  The week's best labor stories assembled, hyperlinked, and summarized here for your convenience. Game-changer. Just as we were editing our obituaries for the American labor movement, the sudden deat

  Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, Catholic social teaching, contingent labor, Friedrichs, Justice for Janitors, Overtime, Pope Francis, right to work, Saint Paul, Saint Paul Teachers, Student debt

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 12, 2016)

  Celebrate your love for worker justice this Valentine's Day weekend by catching up on some of the week's best labor stories! Our nation's capital, a haven for low-income workers? DC edges closer t

  Category: In the News Tags: Friedrichs, Hedge Clippers, Islamophobia, Layoffs, Muslims, Overtime, Paid Family Leave, Slave Labor, Strike, Strikes, Uber

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 5, 2016)

  Some of the best labor stories of the week gathered, summarized, and hyperlinked for your convenience. Have a great weekend! Captive no more? 106 labor scholars recently petitioned the National La

  Category: In the News Tags: Catholic social teaching, Discrimination, Labor News, Labor Stories, Overtime, Racism, Religious liberty, Soccer, Uber, Women's Soccer

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 29, 2016)

  Did you play in the snow and neglect labor news this week? No worries, we've assembled some of the best labor stories for you to catch up on. Justice for faculty at Loyola! Following a contentious

  Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, CAP, Center for American Progress, Child labor, Child Slave Labor, Coal Miners, Cole Strangler, Equal Pay, Faculty, Gender Gap, Loyola University Chicago, Overtime, SEIU, Shaun Richman, Slave Labor, Social Justice Unionism, Undocumented Immigrants, Undocumented students, US Senate

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 22, 2016)

  Will the snowstorm keep you hunkered down all weekend? Catch up on some vital labor stories from the week. Silencing students who speak out for workers. Four Loyola University Chicago students face

  Category: In the News Tags: Aramark, Child labor, Department of Labor, Interest rate swaps, Jesuit Values, Joseph A. McCartin, Loyola University Chicago, NLRB, Overtime, Public Education, Sexual violence, Teachers, the Big Short, Wall Street

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 15, 2016)

  Did you read nothing but Friedrichs news this week? Thankfully, we've gathered the top labor stories for you to catch up on during the weekend. Blessed be the Union Busters? Although worker righ

  Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, Fight for 15, graduate students, interns, Just Employment, Lydia DePillis, Overtime, Rahm Emanuel, Shaun Richman, Strike, unpaid interns

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 8, 2016)

  Were you too busy catching up on work to keep up with happenings in the labor world? Fret not, we've gathered the best stories for you here. Don't miss the two gems at the end. Party like it's 1

  Category: In the News Tags: Friedrichs, Harold Meyerson, John Russo, Killer Mike, NLRB, Overtime, Pope Francis, Richard Trumka, UFCW, Wall Street, Working Families Party