Archive: AFT

• Community and Labor Organizers Plot to Bargain for Racial Justice

  Attendees of the three-day conference converged at the old National Labor College, which has been renovated as the Tommy Douglas Conference Center. The gathering was hosted by a steering committee of representatives from labor and community organizations and convened by Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the Rutgers School of Management Labor Relations’ Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, and the Action Center on Race and the Economy.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: ACRE, AFT, Bargaining for the Common Good, BCG, CIWO, Conference, NEA, Public Sector, Racial Justice, SEIU

• Fixing Los Angeles and Bargaining for the Common Good

  On Wednesday, July 13, nearly 150 representatives of community organizations, unions, think tanks, and universities gathered to look closely at the success of the “Fix LA” movement and discuss the state of Bargaining for the Common Good efforts around the country.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Amisha Patel, Amy Schur, Bargaining for the Common Good, BCG, Center for Popular Democracy, Fix LA, Gilda Valdez, Jobs with Justice, Joseph A. McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Marilyn Sneiderman, Matthew Polk, Maurice Weeks, NEA, Patrick Dixon, People's Action, Peter Kuhns, PICO National Network, Randi Weingarten, Reverend William D. Smart, Saqib Bhatti, SEIU

• Bargain for the Common Good: Lessons from LA and Beyond

  Find out how the Fix LA Coalition united labor and community groups, broke the mold on collective bargaining, and WON BIG – and how the Bargaining for the Common Good strategy used in LA is helping workers and their allies around the country roll back austerity, win new revenues for public services, and build power together.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Bargaining for the Common Good, BCG, CIWO, Fix LA, Fix Los Angels, Los Angeles, NEA, Rutgers, SEIU

• In Defense of the Public Square

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative is pleased to host In Defense of the Public Square, a conference of elected officials, public intellectuals and union, business and civil rights leaders on May 1 and 2, 2015, in partnership with the Albert Shanker Institute.

  Category: Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Albert Shanker Institute, American Prospect, Dissent Magazine, SEIU