Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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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
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KI Spring Internship Applications Open
KI is now accepting applications for the Spring 2022 Research in Action and Organizing Internships. These paid internships are open to all Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students.Th
Category: Updates
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Washington Post | Opinion: They worked so we could eat: What we learned from the pandemic’s meatpacking calamity
KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz is featured in a Washington Post editorial on the failure of meatpacking companies to protect their workers during the pandemic. Meatpacking plants suffered terrib
Categories: In the News, Updates
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NPR | ‘Striketober’ could have lasting impact on labor
KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin appears on NPR's All Things Considered with Ailsa Chang to discuss Striketober and the Great Resignation. McCartin discusses the current wave of labor militancy wi
Categories: In the News, Updates
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WCP: How Government Statistics Define the Stories of the Working Class
One of my favorite media criticism works is British journalist and media professor Brian Winston’s “On Counting the Wrong Things.” He argues that the categories we use to count can themselves lead to
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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KI Fellow Debbie Berkowitz Testifies on Meatpacking Workers
On October 27, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing, "How the Meatpacking Industry Failed the Workers Who Feed America," featuring KI practitioner fellow, Debbie Ber
Category: Updates