Archive:What’s Happening at the KI

• WCP: What Can Workers Expect from Amy Coney Barrett?

  Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States poses a difficult question: does her faith commitment as a Roman Catholic preclude an interpretation of the law that is responsive to concerns of the working class?

  Category: Updates Tags: Ken Estey, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Unsettling

  The wildfires in the West add one more disruption to working-class lives in 2020. People have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and their loved ones.

  Category: Updates Tags: Allison L Hurst, Working-Class Perspectives

• Mapping the Common Good: Lessons for Building BCG Campaigns

  Over 150 activists and organizers from across the country gathered to learn about how to use the Bargaining for the Common Good network’s innovative mapping tool to help build innovative campaigns.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events

• WCP: Undelivered: The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance

  In this turbulent moment, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy aptly symbolizes the precarious state of both our democracy and the workers on whose shoulder its future rests.

  Category: Updates Tags: Joseph A. McCartin, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Unemployed Workers of the World Unite?!?

  As we mark Labor Day in the US, more Americans are out of work than at any time in recent memory. But that makes this an ideal time for labor action.

  Category: Updates Tags: Wade Rathke, Working-Class Perspectives

• KI Fall Internships Are Now Open for Applications!

  KI is now accepting applications for its virtual paid internships for Fall 2020, which are open to all undergraduate and graduate Georgetown students.

  Categories: Student Leaders, Updates

• WCP: Why You Should Be Getting Your Labor News from Teen Vogue

  You might be surprised to hear that some of the best coverage of last week’s professional sports strikes protesting the latest police shooting of an unarmed Black man appeared in a teen fashion magazine.

  Category: Updates Tags: Kathy M. Newman, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Working-Class Public Housing in the COVID Spotlight

  In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Sarah Attfield explains how low-income residents of Australian public housing towers have struggled with lockdowns and policing.

  Category: Updates Tags: Sarah Attfield, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Hidden Price of Education: Black and Working-Class in Academe

  One of structural racism’s institutional bases is education, which has a long history of excluding, segregating, and discriminating against people of color, many of whom are also poor or working-class.

  Category: Updates Tags: Salita Seibert, Working-Class Perspectives

• The Future of Worker Rights and Welfare Policies in Germany and America (Video)

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung co-sponsored the webinar “A German-American Dialogue on Worker Rights and Welfare.” This July 7 panel was moderated by Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative and co-director of WILL Empower.

  Category: Events