Archive: Lane Windham
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The Guardian| “US Unions Winning Big Gains amid ‘Great Reset’ in Worker Power”
KI Associate Director Lane Windham joined Steven Greenhouse with "The Guardian" to discuss The Great Reset and how Unions are showing up in a big way for U.S. workers. Read more on The Guardian
Category: In the News
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PBS News Hour| Lane Windham Talks the UAW Strike and The Recent Wave of Labor Activism
'I think that [younger] generation, they were children during the Great Recession. They saw that. They saw their parents go through that. They watched it from a visceral place...I see [the support of
Category: In the News
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BBC News| Lane Windham Discusses Historic UAW Strike | #HotLaborSummer
https://youtu.be/qTpkzuIUPug Lane Windham, Associate Director of The Kalmanovitz Initiative, sits with BBC news to discuss the first of its kind UAW strike. "It's the first time in the 80+ year
Category: In the News
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Scholars’ Circle | Organizing contemporary Labor unions in the US
The Ki's Associate Director Lane Windham joins Scholars Circle to talk "a new labor awakening" https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-labor-organizers-struggles-of-today-august-6-2023/?fbclid
Category: In the News
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KCRW | Lane Windham discusses “What’s pushing white-collar workers to unionize?”
The Kalmanovitz Initiative’s Associate Director Lane Windham joins Press Play Madeline Brand to discuss the growing movement of white collar workers, such as college adjuncts, unionizing and rising u
Category: In the News
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Working Class Studies| Meeting Labor’s Moment by Lane Windham
The Kalmanovitz Initiative's Associate Director Lane Windham for Working Class Studies discusses the needed pivot away from neoliberalism and new laws, structures and approaches necessary to seize th
Category: In the News
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WCP: Blue-Collar Babies: Why America’s Working Class Needs Affordable Child Care
The recent Netflix series Maid, based on Stephanie Land's memoir, highlights the challenges that poor and working-class mothers face in juggling low-wage jobs, social services, and child care. As Lan
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Southern Black Women Are Key to Alabama Amazon Union Drive
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama are voting this month on whether to form a union. As Lane Windham writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives, African-American women are play
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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Lane Windham in The Hill: It’s time for a new social compact
“This Labor Day, working people and their labor organizations can lead the way to a new, 21st century grand bargain that leverages government support in novel ways to build workers’ social protections.”
Category: In the News
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Intersectionality and Women’s Voting Rights Over the Past Century (Video)
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, the National Parks Service, and WILL Empower co-sponsored the webinar “Gender, Race, Class, and the Vote: From the 19th Amendment to COVID-19” to discuss how race and class have shaped womens’ ability to vote over the past century. This June 23 panel was moderated by Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative and co-director of WILL Empower.
Categories: Events, Women Innovating Labor Leadership