Archive:In the News

• Reaching the End of the PATCO Era? | The American Prospect

  KI Executive Director writes about the legacy of the 1981 PATCO strike in The American Prospect and the future of unions, worker organizing, and the labor movement as the country faces new political

  Category: In the News

• The Changing Face of America’s Unions | Marketplace Radio

  KI Associate Director Lane Windham appears on Marketplace Radio's Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly to describe the demographic shifts in America's unions and the impact of this shift on the labor mov

  Category: In the News

• House passes sweeping pro-union bill that would reform labor laws | USA Today

  On March 9, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), a bill that would fundamentally change the dynamic and power imbalance in worker organizing. K

  Categories: In the News, Updates

• Lane Windham in The Hill: It’s time for a new social compact

  “This Labor Day, working people and their labor organizations can lead the way to a new, 21st century grand bargain that leverages government support in novel ways to build workers’ social protections.”

  Category: In the News Tags: Lane Windham, New Social Compact

• Will the Teachers Take Control? | Dissent Magazine

  KI Executive Director, Joseph McCartin writes about the power of educators in confronting the urgent needs of communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. With no coordinated plan to mitigate the ongoin

  Category: In the News

• Our Statement on Police Brutality, Recent Unrest, and Racial Justice

  The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer is yet another tragic chapter in the long, sad history of lethal violence meted out to African Americans. This act of police brutality, a contemporary manifestation of the historically unfair and racist treatment of Black people by law enforcement and the criminal justice system, has sent people to the streets once more in protest, demanding to right this systemic wrong.

  Category: In the News Tags: George Floyd, Police Brutality, Racial and Economic Empowerment Project, Racial Justice, REEP

• Resource from DC OAG: Informal Tenants Are Protected

  The Office of the DC Attorney General just released an important resource in English and Spanish informing DC tenants of their rights during and after the COVID crisis, and confirming that these rights also apply to tenants in informal housing situations (ie, without a written lease) and regardless of their immigration status

  Categories: Immigration and Labor Project, In the News Tags: COVID-19, DC Attorney General, Housing, Tenant Rights

• D.C. Council Approves $2.5 Million for Immigrant Justice Legal Services!

  We are thrilled to share that on Tuesday the D.C. Council gave final approval to $2.5 million in funding for the Immigration Justice Legal Services (IJLS) grant program in order to keep immigrant fami

  Categories: Immigration and Labor Project, In the News Tags: CAIR Coalition, CARECEN, DC Council, ILP, Immigration and Labor Project, Legal Funding, Mayor Bowser

• Tax Uber and Lift the Veil

  For Game 6 of the Capitals’ conference finals, Uber provided funding for late-night Metro service. It may have been a coincidence that Uber’s gesture came just as the D.C. Council weighs a proposal th

  Categories: Articles, In the News, Practitioner Fellows, Visiting Scholars Tags: Blog, Declan Cullen, Gig Economy, Kafui Attoh, Katie Wells, Ridesharing, Uber

• Lane Windham, KI Associate Director, Receives Prestigious Labor History Award

  KI Associate Director Lane Windham has been awarded the prestigious 2018 David Montgomery Award from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) at its annual meeting in Sacramento, California. The

  Categories: In the News, Our Staff, People, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: Awards, Knocking on Labor's Door, Labor History, Labor Studies, Lane Windham, LAWCHA, OAH, WILL Empower, Women