Archive: Publications

• Relevant Revisit: “Bargaining for the Future: Rethinking Labor’s Recent Past and Planning Strategically for its Future”

  As labor rises to meet the current moment, revisit "Bargaining for the Future" - the Kalmanovitz Initiative's 2014 study on new and innovative "forms ofcollective action that might be capable of prov

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• Learn more about The Kalmanovitz Initiative!

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor (K.I.) is proud to share a new overview of our work at the intersection of labor, racial justice, and democracy. As a university-based la

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• NEW REPORT: How Workers’ Pensions can Help Solve the Housing Crisis

  This report explores ways that pension funds can invest in affordable housing and direct worker savings away from the particularly extractive parts of the financial sector, notably private equity.

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• Aligning for Power: A Case Study of Bargaining for the Common Good in Minnesota

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative presents a groundbreaking case study on the history of Common Good Bargaining in Minnesota and the powerful coalitions built between community and labor organizations thro

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• PRO Act Faith Leader Sign On

  Faith Leaders Support PRO Act to Advance Workers’ Rights From our standpoint of faith, America must honor the sacred worth and dignity of work and every worker in the United States. Drawing on

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• The Uber Workplace in Washington, D.C.

  The on-demand ride-hailing industry that has emerged in recent years presents sobering challenges for its new workforce. These challenges include: drivers not knowing how much they truly earn; in

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• The Case for a Bank Workers’ Bill of Rights

  The crisis of 2008 and the ensuing Great Recession revealed both the extent to which this country is vulnerable to predatory manipulations of powerful corporate entities and the degree to which the financialization of our economy has contributed to growing inequality, the concentration of incomes and wealth, and the growing precarity of American working families.

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• Kalmanovitz Initiative Ten Year Anniversary Summary & Report

  Since it was officially launched on November 10, 2009, with a gift from the Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation, Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor has established itself as a unique organization. Its distinctive identity and contribution stem from its simultaneous fulfillment of a broad spectrum of roles not duplicated by any other entity in the United States.

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• One Job Should Be Enough in the Airline Industry

  KI is today releasing a white paper entitled One Job Should Be Enough in the Airline Industry: Catering on the Margins at American, Delta and United.

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• Call Center Workers Fighting to Lift Up Families and Hattiesburg

  This week the Kalmanovitz Initiative releases a new report, Strengthening Families and the Hattiesburg Economy: The Impacts of Improved Pay for Federally Contracted Call Center Workers.

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