Archive: News
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House passes sweeping pro-union bill that would reform labor laws | USA Today
On March 9, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), a bill that would fundamentally change the dynamic and power imbalance in worker organizing. K
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Webinar: Taxing the Rich and Bargaining for Racial Justice in Connecticut
On February 24th, hundreds of members of the Bargaining for the Common Good network gathered virtually to hear from organizers from SEIU 1199 NE and members of Bridgeport Generation Now about a groun
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events, News
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WCP: Workers, Climate Change, and Useless Stereotypes
Stories about climate change often depict workers as uniformly resistant to progressive policies. They are more interested, it would seem, in protecting jobs in coal mining than in protecting the pla
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Outage Outrage: Class and the Power Grid
A deep freeze in Texas brought widespread power outages, water shortages, damage to many homes, and plenty of outrage. While the cold snap might not have been expected, the problems reflect decisions
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Not Just Viruses: What Epidemic Cinema Teaches Us about Working-Class Vulnerability
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we've looked to earlier viruses to help us make sense of what's happening. As Tom Zaniello reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, film offers important
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: What the World Needs Now
Natural, human-made, and political disasters have threatened -- or taken -- many people's lives over the past year, and leadership gaps and political divides don't offer much reason to hope. In Worki
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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DC 2021: Continuing Crises, Prospects for Change
On February 3, a group of local DC activists and thinkers gathered to reflect on a tumultuous 2020 and looked forward into a New Year in the District. The panel was part of a series of events as part
Categories: Events, News, Race and Economic Empowerment Project
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WCP: Water from a Rock: Joe Biden and Working-Class Catholicism
The U.S. faces a number of daunting problems, including divisions that threaten American democracy, COVID, and climate change. As Joseph A. McCartin writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives,
Category: News
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WEBINAR: Confronting the Digital Workplace: Whose Power? Whose Voice?
On Wednesday, January 27th, KI convened an international panel featuring Christy Hoffman of UNI Global Union, Katie Wells, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Author of “Just-in-Pla
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KI Spring Internship Applications Now Open
KI is now accepting applications for its paid virtual internship for Spring 2021 open to undergraduate and graduate Georgetown students. Internship deadline: Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 11:59
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