Archive:In the News
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In the News: Workers' Fights in the Washington City Paper
Mike Paarlberg, a former graduate assistant for the Kalmanovitz Initiative, wrote about the wage theft epidemic affecting DC area day laborers for this week's cover story of the Washington City Pape
Categories: Day Laborer Exchange, In the News
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In the News: The State of the Bank Employee on Wall Street
Georgetown graduate student and Kalmanovitz Initiative research assistant Jordana Hoyt is making headlines with a report she authored entitled "The State of the Bank Employee on Wall Street." Findin
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, In the News
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Catholic Scholar Unveils Major Case Study on Workers Rights and Socially Responsible Investment in the Hotel Industry
The clarity of Catholic Social Teaching on workers' rights was reinforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical letter, Caritas in Veritate, which reminded readers of "the duties of solidarity"
Categories: In the News, Uncategorized
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Poet Laureate Philip Levine on the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Georgetown University
The following interview with Philip Levine was conducted by Donna Urschel, a Public Affairs Specialist in the Library of Congress's Office of Communications, and originally published in the March 30 i
Category: In the News
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CEPR Report on Unionization Trends
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a report last month on trends in unionization over the past fifty years. The report, which was written by John Schmitt and Alexandra Mituki
Category: In the News
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Executive Director interviewed by NPR's Diane Rehm
Joseph A. McCartin was the guest in the second hour of NPR's The Diane Rehm Show on September 7. He spoke about his forthcoming book, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, a
Category: In the News
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KI Executive Director Testifies before NLRB
On July 18 and July 19, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board held an open meeting on its proposed rule changes in representation cases. These changes are designed to reduce litigation, streamli
Category: In the News
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Kalmanovitz Initiative in the News
The KI’s Executive Director, Joe McCartin, comments on the assault on public sector unions for a Stateline article by Daniel C. Vock. ResetDoc’s Martina Toti interviews Joe McCartin about state worker
Category: In the News
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KI Director Speaks at NLRB
KI executive director Joseph A. McCartin presented on “Labor’s Great War: Then and Now” at the headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
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