Archive:OSHA
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Washington Post | Opinion: They worked so we could eat: What we learned from the pandemic’s meatpacking calamity
KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz is featured in a Washington Post editorial on the failure of meatpacking companies to protect their workers during the pandemic. Meatpacking plants suffered terrib
Categories: In the News, Updates
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KI Fellow Debbie Berkowitz Testifies on Meatpacking Workers
On October 27, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing, "How the Meatpacking Industry Failed the Workers Who Feed America," featuring KI practitioner fellow, Debbie Ber
Category: Updates
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Welcoming Debbie Berkowitz as a KI Fellow
KI is excited to welcome Debbie Berkowitz to KI as a fellow focusing on worker safety and health. Debbie has made a career in advocacy for workers and we a proud to have her join our team. Read her b
Category: Updates
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On May Day: The Enduring Importance of Labor Unions
This was originally published in The Jesuit Post. “Unions used to be important, but they’re not necessary anymore.” It’s a line many of us have heard. We often associate unions with particular
Category: Updates
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WCP: Why You Should Be Getting Your Labor News from Teen Vogue
You might be surprised to hear that some of the best coverage of last week’s professional sports strikes protesting the latest police shooting of an unarmed Black man appeared in a teen fashion magazine.
Category: Updates
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WCP: May Day 2020: Workers in the Pandemic Time
In most years, workers around the world celebrate May Day with marches, usually led by labor unions and the political parties and allies that support them. But as Wade Rathke writes in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, May Day 2020 probably won’t be remembered for marches but for the struggle and sacrifice of workers, many newly understood to be essential, others newly unemployed. The fragility of work in an unequal global economy has been laid bare in this season of the pandemic, but workers are also organizing and winning both greater respect and, in some cases, better treatment.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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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
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WCP: Is Class Really Forgotten? Working-Class Studies Association 2017 Awards
While commentators are right to call for an increased focus on class, the notion that class as a category of analysis has been neglected by academics is contradicted by tremendous recent scholarship in the working-class studies field. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Tim Strangleman highlights some of the best books and articles awarded by the Working-Class Studies Association this spring.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Now They Get It: Health, Class, and Economic Restructuring
Recent studies showing a rise in death rates for the white, middle-aged individuals suggest a connection between economic insecurity and health. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, John Russo t
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Remembrance
On March 21, 2011, the Kalmanovitz Initiative co-sponsored a symposium to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City. The fire resulted in the deat
Category: Events