Archive:Living Wage

• Nick Wertsch: Lessons from KI Inspire Worker Victory in Harris County, Texas

  A year after I departed from the Kalmanovitz Initiative to take up work as a staff attorney with the Worker Defense Project in Houston, I find that my KI experience continues to resonate. Workers Defe

  Categories: Just Employment Policy, Our Staff, People Tags: Construction Workers, Just Employment Policy, Living Wage, Nick Wertsch, Texas, Workers Defense Project

• WCP: Time to Make a Deal on the Federal Minimum Wage

  The federal minimum wage has been stuck at the poverty level of $7.25 per hour since 2009. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Wade Rathke argues that workers cannot wait for a new Congress or a

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: ACORN, Fight for 15, John Russo, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Raise the Wage, Sherry Linkon, Wade Rathke, WCP, Working-Class Perspective

• Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and on Campus

  This year marks the 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (new window), Pope Leo XIII’s pivotal 19th century encyclical that laid the foundation for Catholic teaching on labor and the dignity of work. More than a century later, these principles remain profoundly relevant to our society and our campus community on the Hilltop.

  Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy Tags: Catholic Chaplaincy, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Student Fellowship, Center for Social Justice, Events, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Living Wage, Population Health Initiative, Rerum Novarum, Right to Organize, Social Justice, Worker Rights

• Celebrating Ten Years of Just Employment at Georgetown

  On November 5, 2015, Georgetown students, alumni, staff, faculty, and administrators gathered in Riggs Library to reflect and celebrate the way the university realizes its Catholic identity and Jesuit heritage to the men and women who sustain our campus: the Just Employment Policy (JEP).

  Categories: Events, In the News, Just Employment Policy, Student Leaders Tags: Bob Stumberg, Cal Watson, Caleb Weaver, Chris Kerr, DC Action Lab, Donte Crestwell, Erik Smulson, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Georgetown University, Hannah Cook, Hunger Strike, Ignatian Solidarity Network, JEP, Joseph A. McCartin, Just Employment Policy, Kerry Danner McDonald, Lisa Krim, Living Wage, Natalie Yoon, Nick Wertsch, Raymond Kemp, Robert Groves, United Students Against Sweatshops, Virginia Leavell

• OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Mar 4, 2016)

  Missed out on labor news last week? We have you covered! In foul trouble. Labor rights advocates are accusing Nike of taking a big backward step in supply chain accountability by denying the Work

  Category: In the News Tags: Attorneys, Big Banks, Costco, Day Laborers, Digital media, Gawker, Higher education, Lawyers, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Nike, Outsourcing, Overtime, Tom Perez, Uber, Worker Rights Consortium, WRC

• What you missed in the world of worker justice over the holidays

  Did you go off the grid for the holidays to spend valuable time with loved ones? Did you neglect your email inbox and Twitter account in favor of baked goods, gift exchanges, and the new Star War

  Category: In the News Tags: Christmas, Daily News, Friedrichs, Harold Meyerson, Holidays, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, NLRB, Wall Street