Archive:CWA
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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
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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
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Guestworkers, Immigration, and the Future of Workers' Rights
Guestworkers show us where the new economy is headed — unless we organize. Join the National Guestworker Alliance, Dissent Magazine, and Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor in a discussion about the future of work.
Category: Events
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Jobs, Inequality, and the Role of Government
In partnership with the Communications Workers of America and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a conference on improving the economic competitiveness and innovative capacity of the U.S.
Category: Events