Archive: In the News
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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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Salon | Sit-down strikes revolutionized the labor movement — could it happen again?
Matthew Rozsa writes on the a wave of labor activism, strikes, and resignations. He interviews KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin who speaks on the Flint sit-down strike. "The activists used the
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Mother Jones | Meatpackers “Prioritized Profits” Over Worker Safety During the Pandemic. A New Bill Would Force Them to Change.
KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz, is quoted in Mother Jones, discussing the importance of legislation to protect workers in meatpacking plants. She says of the Bill, sponsored by Ro Khanna (D-CA) and
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NPR | It’s Been a Minute: Was 2021 Labor’s Year?
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham appears on the NPR podcast, "It's Been a Minute" to talk about an increase in labor activism in 2021. "I think we are living through a worker rights revival. E
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The Progressive | One Question: What More Can Joe Biden Do to Help Working People?
KI Associate Director Lane Windham answer the, "What more can Joe Biden do to help working people?" in The Progressive. "He can listen. Working people are fed up after forty years of stagnant wag
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Quartz | Texans are bearing the cost of keeping the working class out of the statehouse
KI Executive Director, Joseph McCartin, and Program Manager, Juan Belman Guerrero, are quoted in this piece in Quartz. “In a lot of working-class jobs in Texas, where people are working from very
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Washington Post | Starbucks baristas are on the verge of forming a union. The company is pushing back.
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham speaks on the unionization efforts of Starbucks workers and the company's pushback to worker organizing in the Washington Post. “The pandemic really shook up w
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