Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor

08/24/2026

SOLIDARITY WITH TRINITY WORKERS!

08/13/2026

How workers are making their pension plans work for them in the Trump era.

Join and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for this half-day event. Hear from public and Taft-Hartley pension trustees, along with capital stewardship professionals, in presentations and interactive discussion on defined benefit pensions and best practices on how plans can still invest in ways that benefit workers while meeting fiduciary obligations in a challenging political environment.

corpath.org/georgetown

08/13/2026

Join us for Labor Nights! We're teaming up with Theatre Alliance and the Labor Heritage foundation or a special showing of Woody Guthrie's American Song.

The August 13th showing will be followed by a community talk back

https://patron.theateralliance.org/ticketing/theateralliance/catalog/events

07/30/2026

https://lwp.georgetown.edu/ki-happening/blog-updates/ki-staff-and-students-hit-the-road-for-peoples250/

uses social media to shine a spotlight on people-centered history shaped by real experiences, communities, and working-class voices. From college students organizing their workplaces to Civil Rights history, is telling stories that must be told.

07/29/2026

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07/20/2026

Our Co-Director Joe McCartin spoke to the Washington Post about AI's role in already eroding workplaces. “The rise of AI, especially, is bound to change the workplace radically,” McCartin said.

Waves of layoffs and growing pressure to automate jobs are creating existential panic in the tech industry. Economists say other white-collar workers are next.

07/19/2026

"Gaboury hopes that will serve as a foundation for the union to incorporate housing and affordability demands into its future contract fights, under the ​“bargaining for the common good” frameworks used to secure wins in cities like Chicago and Minneapolis. "

“Affordable rent should be an essential demand of the labor movement as a whole,” says New York Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai.