Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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DC Report | Younger Workers Lead Starbucks Union Organizing Effort
KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin comments on the ongoing organizing at Starbucks locations across the U.S. and the unfriendly environment of U.S. Labor Law. “It’s a kind of chicken and egg thin
Categories: In the News, Updates
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KI 2022 Summer Internship Applications Open
KI is now accepting applications for the Summer 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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Apply for WILL Empower’s 2022 Programs
WILL Empower is recruiting the next generation of apprentices, host sites, and members of its Emerging Leaders cohort for 2022. The WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program is a multi-pronged initiat
Category: Updates
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WCP: Working-Class Scholars and Activists Bringing Change
In recent years, class has gained fresh attention as a system that creates and reinforces inequality. As Sarah Attfield writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, this is due in part to the ef
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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New York Times | The U.S. Labor Movement Is Popular, Prominent and Also Shrinking
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham, is quoted in The New York Times speaking on the present and future of the labor movement. “I see what’s happening right now as part of that strike wave. S
Categories: In the News, Updates
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EVENT: AI & Global Workers’ Rights
A recent Kalmanovitz Initiative -sponsored webinar on A.I. and Global Workers’ Rights on January 20 spotlighted the urgent need for working people to have more control over the design and implementat
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Call for Nominations: The Pandemic Worker Wave and a New Social Compact
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University will convene a major public virtual gathering entitled, "The Pandemic Worker Wave and a New Social Compact: A Public
Category: Updates
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Bloomberg | U.S. Labor’s Watershed Year Failed to Boost Union Memberships
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham appears in Bloomberg, commenting on recent reports about union membership and union density in the U.S. “Unions always can organize more, they can do more to e
Categories: In the News, Updates
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National Catholic Reporter | What Catholic social teaching has to say about the Great Resignation
KI Associate Director, Lane Windham; program manager, Juan Belman Guerrero; and Catholic Labor Network Executive Director, Clayton Sinyai comment on Catholic Social Teaching and labor activism in the
Categories: In the News, Updates
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Labor History Today | MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961
KI Executive Director, Joseph McCartin spoke on Labor History Today on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s labor activism and a speech before the AFL-CIO. Listen to the episode here: https
Categories: In the News, Updates