Archive:Just Employment Policy

• Nick Wertsch: Lessons from KI Inspire Worker Victory in Harris County, Texas

  A year after I departed from the Kalmanovitz Initiative to take up work as a staff attorney with the Worker Defense Project in Houston, I find that my KI experience continues to resonate. Workers Defe

  Categories: Just Employment Policy, Our Staff, People Tags: Construction Workers, Just Employment Policy, Living Wage, Nick Wertsch, Texas, Workers Defense Project

• Shared Values: A Report on AFL-CIO and Catholic Conference Activity in the State Legislatures

  The labor movement in the United States shares many values with the Catholic Church, with each supporting living wages for workers, the right to join and form unions, and the defense of our immigrant

  Categories: Just Employment Policy, Publications, Reports Tags: AFL-CIO, Alexandros Taliadoros, Catholic Church, Catholic conferences, Catholic Labor Network, Catholic social teaching, Clayton Sinyai, CLN, Immigration, Labor, labor federations, Lillian Ryan, Lobbying, Worker Rights

• KI Director Reflects on 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum

  Exactly 125 years ago, in 1891, the industrializing world was going through a traumatic transformation that should seem familiar to us today: new technologies were transforming work; people were being uprooted by economic process from the lands of their birth and their traditional ways of life and drawn to the centers of the new economy, fleeing the collapsing worlds their parents had known and seeking new and better ones; millions of immigrants, emigrants, and migrants were crossing borders and seeking new homes; cities were growing and their problems were multiplying; tensions were emerging as cultures clashed; xenophobia was ignited (in the US it took the form of the American Protective Association, which sought to ban Catholic immigrants to this country); inequality was surging as some reaped enormous, unprecedented, and obscene profits from the new economy while others suffered egregious exploitation.

  Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy, Our Staff Tags: Alex Taliadoros, Campus Ministry, Campus Workers, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Student Fellowship, Center for Social Justice, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Jess Chilin, Joseph A. McCartin, Population Health Initiative, Rerum Novarum, Worker Justice

• Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and on Campus

  This year marks the 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (new window), Pope Leo XIII’s pivotal 19th century encyclical that laid the foundation for Catholic teaching on labor and the dignity of work. More than a century later, these principles remain profoundly relevant to our society and our campus community on the Hilltop.

  Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy Tags: Catholic Chaplaincy, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Student Fellowship, Center for Social Justice, Events, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Living Wage, Population Health Initiative, Rerum Novarum, Right to Organize, Social Justice, Worker Rights

• Celebrating Ten Years of Just Employment at Georgetown

  On November 5, 2015, Georgetown students, alumni, staff, faculty, and administrators gathered in Riggs Library to reflect and celebrate the way the university realizes its Catholic identity and Jesuit heritage to the men and women who sustain our campus: the Just Employment Policy (JEP).

  Categories: Events, In the News, Just Employment Policy, Student Leaders Tags: Bob Stumberg, Cal Watson, Caleb Weaver, Chris Kerr, DC Action Lab, Donte Crestwell, Erik Smulson, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Hannah Cook, Hunger Strike, Ignatian Solidarity Network, JEP, Joseph A. McCartin, Just Employment Policy, Kerry Danner McDonald, Lisa Krim, Living Wage, Natalie Yoon, Nick Wertsch, Raymond Kemp, Robert Groves, United Students Against Sweatshops, Virginia Leavell

• Reflecting on a Weekend of Worker Justice in Pittsburgh

  [caption id="attachment_3387" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Photo Credit: Morgan Currier[/caption] Georgetown University students Esmi Huerta and Cassidy Jensen recently travelled to Pittsburgh, w

  Categories: Anti-Sweatshop Sourcing, Just Employment Policy, Student Leaders Tags: Cassidy Jensen, Center for Social Justice, Corp, Corp Philanthropy, CSJ, Esmeralda Huerta, Esmi Huerta, Fight for 15, SOCA, Students of Color in Alliance, United Students Against Sweatshops, University of Pittsburgh, USAS

• Just Employment in Action: Adjunct Unionization and Contract Negotiation at Georgetown University

  Georgetown University's contract with its union of adjunct professors is a significant model that merits replication in other institutions of higher education, says a new report issued by the Kalman

  Categories: Just Employment Policy, Reports

• Launching the Just Employment Policy Website

  In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the student hunger strike that enacted Georgetown's Just Employment Policy, the Kalmanovitz Initiative has launched a brand news website for our Just Emplo

  Category: Just Employment Policy