Archive: In the News

• Organizing Internship: Application OPEN for PAID Fall 2022 KI Internship

  Internship deadline: Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 11:59 pm ET Each semester, KI recruits Georgetown students who are dedicated to social justice towork with local and national groups advocating

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• Financial Post | ‘No one wants to work anymore’: Employers complaining about labour shortages may simply not be paying enough

  KI Executive Director Joe McCartin is Featured in a piece about the myth behind the common phrase "No one wants to work anymore" and the low wages which drive the current labor shortage “It’s

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• Financial Times | ‘Union drip’ shows how the American labour movement is changing

  KI Executive Director Joe McCartin is featured in a piece about "union drip" and the changing face of the American labor movement. "But the history of organised labour in the US shows that fa

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• DCist | Union Kitchen Workers Face Uncertain Union Victory Amidst Firings And Delays

  KI Associate Director and Director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project, James Benton, discusses the unionization efforts at Union Kitchen and the challenges workers are facing as they fight

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• Fortune | Workers at a second Amazon facility on Staten Island just voted against unionizing. But that doesn’t mean the movement is slowing down

  KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin comments on continued organizing efforts at Amazon warehouses across the country. Part of what made ALU initially successful in resisting Amazon’s oppositio

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• The Street | Would Having Starbucks Unions Affect the Price of Your Coffee?

  KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin speaks on worker unionization at Starbucks in The Street. Read an excerpt below. "Joseph McCartin, a history professor and executive director of the Kalman

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• Newsy: The Why | Interview with Lane Windham

  https://youtu.be/lslJC3_F5U4 KI Associate Director, Lane Windham is interviewed by Newsy's "The Why" on the increase in worker activism in recent months. "Public approval of unions is at a h

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• Bloomberg Law | Minimal DOL Budget Boost in 2022 May Be Blunted by Rescue Cash

  KI Fellow Debbie Berkowitz appears is quoted in Bloomberg Law on the affect of increased funding for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Read the full article here. “The extra m

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Recurring chemical leaks rattle poultry workers

  KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz is interviewed on dangerous conditions for poultry workers at a Georgia poultry processing plant. Debbie is collaborating with worker advocates on the ground who argue tha

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• The American Prospect | Activision Workers Fight to Unionize

  KI Associate Director, Lane Windham, is quoted in The American Prospect in a piece on the ongoing unionization efforts of Activision workers. Read the full article here. “Management has been

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