Archive: Jobs with Justice

• Worker Organizing Roundtable features Lane Windham’s Knocking on Labor’s Door

  How can working people build power today when organizing a union is so difficult? That question was at the heart of a KI roundtable discussion on strategic twenty-first century worker organizing with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Erica Smiley, and KI Associate Director Lane Windham.

  Categories: Events, Our Staff, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: 1970s, AFSCME, Elissa McBride, Erica Smiley, Jane Fonda, Jobs with Justice, Joseph A. McCartin, Knocking on Labor's Door, Lane Windham, Organizing, WILL Empower, Women

• 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

• Labor Research and Action Network Conference

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative was honored to host the fourth annual national Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference at Georgetown University Law Center on June 16-17, 2014.

  Category: Events Tags: Jobs with Justice, Labor Research and Action Network