Archive: CIWO

• 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

• WCP: Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

  Pundits use ‘working class’ as a shorthand for white blue-collar men, but the American worker today is just as likely to be a woman of color in the service or healthcare industry. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Lane Windham makes the case for promoting women’s leadership in the labor movement and introduces an ambitious project seeking to do just that.

  Categories: Visiting Scholars, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: CIWO, Economic Justice, Feminism, Georgetown, John Russo, KI, Lane Windham, Rutgers, Scheduling, Sherry Linkon, WCP, WILL Empower, Women, Women Innovating Labor Leadership, Working-Class Perspectives

• 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

• 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