Archive:What’s Happening at the KI

• Washington Post | Court packing isn’t the only way to reform the Supreme Court

  KI Senior Resident Fellow, Leon Fink, discusses the historical precedent for Supreme Court reform in the Washington Post. There is widespread hand-wringing about the state of the U.S. Supreme

  Category: Updates

• The American Prospect | Can OSHA Keep Workers Safe? The Court Hears the Case Tomorrow.

  KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz writes in The American Prospect on the upcoming hearing before the Supreme Court on the the Biden Administration's new OSHA standard on vaccines and testing. As COV

  Category: Updates

• 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

  Categories: In the News, Updates

• 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

  Categories: In the News, Updates

• 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

  Categories: In the News, Updates

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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