Archive: In the News
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Mother Jones | Workers Got Fed Up. Bosses Got Scared. This Is How the Big Quit Happened.
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham's book Knocking on Labor's Door is referenced in an article on "The Great Resignation." Quitting is, in some ways, the sad resort of an individualized working c
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DC Report | Younger Workers Lead Starbucks Union Organizing Effort
KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin comments on the ongoing organizing at Starbucks locations across the U.S. and the unfriendly environment of U.S. Labor Law. “It’s a kind of chicken and egg thin
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New York Times | The U.S. Labor Movement Is Popular, Prominent and Also Shrinking
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham, is quoted in The New York Times speaking on the present and future of the labor movement. “I see what’s happening right now as part of that strike wave. S
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Bloomberg | U.S. Labor’s Watershed Year Failed to Boost Union Memberships
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham appears in Bloomberg, commenting on recent reports about union membership and union density in the U.S. “Unions always can organize more, they can do more to e
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National Catholic Reporter | What Catholic social teaching has to say about the Great Resignation
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham; program manager, Juan Belman Guerrero; and Catholic Labor Network Executive Director, Clayton Sinyai comment on Catholic Social Teaching and labor activism in the
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Labor History Today | MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961
KI Executive Director, Joseph McCartin spoke on Labor History Today on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s labor activism and a speech before the AFL-CIO. Listen to the episode here: https
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Marketplace | What the Supreme Court’s rulings on workplace vaccine mandates mean
KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz is interviewed by "Marketplace Morning Report" on the implications of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down OSHA's testing and vaccine mandate. Listen to the int
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Your Call Radio | The fight for workers’ rights in 2021 & the path ahead
KI's Lane Windham appears on KALW's radio show Your Call Radio to discuss the year in workers rights. https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2021-12-15/the-fight-for-workers-rights-in-2021
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ABC | Starbucks employees vote to unionize at Buffalo location.
KI Associate Director Lane Windham speaks on the unionization effort of Starbucks workers in Buffalo on ABC's podcast, Start Here. Listen to the interview here or read the transcript below. I
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Washington Post | Starbucks workers in Buffalo win watershed union vote
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham, discusses the first successful union vote at a standalone Starbucks location in Buffalo, NY in the Washington Post. [Other workers are "definitely going to be
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