Archive: AFL-CIO

• Academics, Organizers, and Activists Gather to Address Bank Worker Organizing

  On Thursday, July 19, the AFL-CIO, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the CWA, the Committee for Better Banks, Rutgers’ Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, and the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a discussion on the importance of organizing bank workers. The event featured introductory remarks from the KI’s Director Joseph McCartin and Sara Burke from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, followed by an overview of Bargaining for the Common Good presented by KI fellow Stephen Lerner and Lisa Donner from Americans for Financial Reform and a panel discussion featuring organizers, bank employees, and union staff members who have been deeply engaged in this work.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: AFL-CIO, Bargaining for the Common Good, Bargaining from Below, BCG, CIWO, Committee for Better Banks, CWA

• Shared Values: A Report on AFL-CIO and Catholic Conference Activity in the State Legislatures

  The labor movement in the United States shares many values with the Catholic Church, with each supporting living wages for workers, the right to join and form unions, and the defense of our immigrant

  Categories: Just Employment Policy, Publications, Reports Tags: AFL-CIO, Alexandros Taliadoros, Catholic Church, Catholic conferences, Catholic Labor Network, Catholic social teaching, Clayton Sinyai, CLN, Immigration, Labor, labor federations, Lillian Ryan, Lobbying, Worker Rights

• More Than Money Podcast: Labor Puts Its Assets to Work

  KI Practitioner Fellow Dawn Carpenter has released a special More Than Money podcast episode on Labor Day. More Than Money discusses the values that drive how we engage work and wealth. In this e

  Category: Practitioner Fellows Tags: AFL-CIO, Dawn Carpenter, Housing, Housing Investment Trust, More Than Money, MTM, Podcast, Ted Chandler

• Kalmanovitz Initiative to Help Build New Generation of Women’s Labor Leadership

  Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will identify, nurture, train and convene a new generation of diverse, female labor leaders in a collaborative effort with Rutgers

  Category: Our Staff Tags: AFL-CIO, Berger-Marks Foundation, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Feminism, Georgetown University, Grants, Immigration, Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Labor Movement, Lane Windham, Linda Foley, Liz Shuler, Marilyn Sneiderman, Racial Justice, Rutgers University, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, WILL Empower, Women, Women's Leadership, Worker Justice

• Introducing Our New Fellow, Lane Windham

  We are delighted to share with you that Lane Windham is joining the Kalmanovitz Initiative as a fellow. In her capacity as fellow, Lane will be helping the KI map out a program focusing on women and

  Categories: Our Staff, People Tags: AFL-CIO, Labor and Research Action, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Labor History, Labor Women Project, Lane Windham, LAWCHA, LRAN, Staff

• Keys to Revitalization: Organizing Black Workers and Communities in the South

  On April 28-29, 2014, the Kalmanovitz Initiative convened a gathering of labor, civil rights, and community leaders to discuss and plan a new way forward in organizing Black workers and communities in the South.

  Category: Events Tags: AFL-CIO, CWA, NAACP, UAW, UFCW

• KI Hosts Talk with Union Leaders on Work-Life

  On February 25, 2011, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Labor Project for Working Families sponsored a talk with new labor leaders to discuss steps unions are taking

  Category: Events Tags: AFL-CIO, Center for American Progress, Work-Life