Archive:Updates
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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
Categories: In the News, Updates
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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
Categories: In the News, Updates
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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
Categories: In the News, Updates
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WCP | Building Back Better?
For the first time in decades, American workers seem to be gaining power. As Joseph A. McCartin writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, the "Great Resignation," "Striketober," and more pro
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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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
Categories: In the News, Updates
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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
Categories: In the News, Updates
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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
Categories: In the News, Updates
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WCP: Will the Democrats Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Earlier this year, 25 GOP governors turned down billions of dollars in federally funded supplemental unemployment benefits authorized by the American Rescue Act. As a result, more than 4 million unem
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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AP | Whistleblowers to play key role in enforcing vaccine mandate
KI Fellow Debbie Berkowitz comments on the new OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19 that would require employees of large employers covered by OSHA to get a COVID-19 vaccine or submit to re
Categories: In the News, Updates
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WCP: Dirty Jobs, Essential Workers, and the Infrastructure Bills
Current negotiations over the second infrastructure bill may remind a lot of people of Mike Rowe’s oddly popular series Dirty Jobs. Which makes sense. Watching a man stumble around inside a sewage
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives