JwJ News
october 2005
- 2005 National Jobs with Justice Conference Highlights
- ACT NOW: No more rotten trade deals - Stop AFTA!
- Nominate a candidate for our "Grinch of the Year" contest
- Hold Wal-Mart Accountable This Holiday Season
- JwJ Gearing up for December 10th Week of Action for Workers' Rights
- Your activism is restoring decent pay for Gulf Coast workers!
- JwJ Leads Health Care Victories in Long Island and New York City
- RI JwJ Joins the Fight for Justice for Janitors
- Atlanta JwJ & Massachusetts JwJ Host Workers' Human Rights Tour
- Solidarity Works - Victories in Vermont!
- Indianapolis JwJ Pledgers Sit-Down for Justice for Janitors
- Western Massachusetts JwJ Hosts Performance of Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's History"
Hold Wal-Mart Accountable This Holiday Season
During this holiday season, Jobs with Justice is partnering with ACORN, Wal-Mart Watch, and UFCW's Wake-Up Wal-Mart campaign to shine a light on the negative impacts that Wal-Mart is having on workers and our communities. More than 25 JwJ local coalitions are participating in Wal-Mart Watch's Higher Expectations Week from November 13-19, 2005. Coalitions in Boston, Long Island, Philadelphia, Miami, Orlando, Cleveland, Chicago, Indianapolis, Bend, Portland, Eugene, Washington State, Denver, Buffalo, and more are organizing actions at Wal-Mart stores, educational forums, and screenings of Robert Greenwald's new film, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," and using this film as a tool for public education and engagement in ongoing campaigns to change the greedy corporate practices of the richest company in the U.S.
During Higher Expectations Week, Central Oregon JwJ and Our Community First are organizing 2 large screenings of the Wal-Mart film at Tower Theater in downtown Bend, and planning an action at the proposed site of a Wal-Mart Supercenter. In Cleveland, JwJ is organizing 3 film screenings at union theaters, as well as a "Rat Race" action outside of a Wal-Mart in the outskirts of Cleveland. On Long Island, JwJ is coordinating 4 bake sales to raise money for Wal-Mart workers' health insurance, along with some guerilla theater in which "Lee Scott" heckles the bake sellers by claiming to have a great health care plan, which involves only hiring healthy people. In addition, they are building for a large mobilization outside of a Wal-Mart store.
Students are also mobilizing for Higher Expectations Week through SLAP and USAS! Students at over 30 campuses, including Washington University, Cornell University, University of Louisville, Cleveland State, Penn State, University of Oregon, and the UC system are planning film screenings and mobilizing for local actions targeting Wal-Mart.
In addition to taking part in Wal-Mart Watch's Higher Expectations Week, more than 18 local coalitions, many of which are listed above, are partnering with UFCW locals and local ACORN chapters to carry out Wake-Up Wal-Mart's Holiday Campaign from Nov 13-Dec 18, 2005. This campaign is geared towards impacting Wal-Mart's "key" retail period by redefining and weakening Wal-Mart's public image. JwJ coalitions will take part in coordinated actions at targeted Wal-Mart stores, highlighting many of the concerns that workers and communities have about Wal-Mart coming into our neighborhoods. Stay tuned for more information on this campaign…
For information about Higher Expectations Week, check out www.walmartwatch.com. For more information about Robert Greenwald's film, please go to www.walmartmovie.com. And to learn more about how you can get involved in Wake Up Wal-Mart's Holiday Campaign, go to www.wakeupwalmart.com.
JwJ Gearing up for December 10th Week of Action for Workers' Rights
Jobs with Justice coalitions are gearing up to mobilize during the week of December 10th, International Human Rights Day, to demand that workers are guaranteed a fundamental human right - The freedom to have a union on the job. More than 25 local coalitions are working closely with Central Labor Councils, State Federations of Labor, local unions and other key allies to bring public attention to the need to strengthen organizing and collective bargaining rights in the U.S and around the world.
International Human Rights Day commemorates the anniversary of the ratification of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which established the right of people in every nation to come together into unions and bargain contracts. The U.S. government had recognized those rights 13 years earlier with the National Labor Relations Act. But today, many of us know that those rights exist only on paper.
JwJ coalitions in Portland, Chicago, Boston, Vermont, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington State, DC, Columbus, S. bend, Toledo, and Eugene -to name a few - are planning marches, Workers' Rights Board events, press conferences, rallies, and educational forums demanding protections for workers' freedom to choose a union. In addition, many coalitions are using this week of action to educate the public on the Employee Free Choice Act.
In addition, SLAP is working hard to engage students in this week of action. So far, students are planning teach-ins on campuses on organizing and collective bargaining rights at Georgetown University, Portland State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara.
To get involved in the December 10 th Week of Action, please go to www.jwj.org and www.aflcio.org.
Your activism is restoring decent pay for Gulf Coast workers!
Faced with massive public outrage, President George W. Bush is restoring wages he cut for the construction workers who will rebuild the hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast.
Right after Hurricane Katrina hit, President Bush signed an executive order allowing federal contractors to pay substandard wages to the construction workers who will rebuild the Gulf Coast--workers who already had lost so much and were struggling to rebuild their lives and their communities.
But you and other working families activists made the difference. More than 350,000 messages were sent to Congress and the White House--and it worked: 37 House Republicans urged the White House to reverse the suspension, and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) led unanimous opposition by Democrats to the president's suspension. We won. Gulf Coast workers won. President Bush is lifting his pay cut as of Nov. 8.
Now he must reinstate affirmative action requirements for contractors in the Gulf and end his attempts to slash programs for working families while adding new tax breaks for the rich--we'll keep working on that and, of course, ask you to do your part.
You are a powerful force for working families. Thank you for restoring decent pay for Gulf Coast workers!
JwJ Leads Health Care Victories in Long Island and New York City!
Long Island JwJ led a coalition of unions and other groups to win the Suffolk County Fair Share for Health Care Act in a landslide 17 to 1 vote of the Suffolk County Legislature! The new law will require large grocery stores, including "big box" retailers like Wal-Mart and drug stores that sell groceries, to contribute $3.00 to health care costs for each hour that their employees work. The Suffolk County Fair Share for Health Care act wins health coverage for 12,000 low-wage workers in Suffolk County, helps to protect the coverage of thousands more, and saves the county $25 million in "Wal-Mart taxes." The coalition that won this historic legislation includes the Long Island Federation of Labor, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the Working Families Party. The county executive still has to approve the legislation.
In related news, the NY City Council recently overrode the mayoral veto of the NYC Health Care Security Act, the legislation that was a model for the Fair Share for Health Care Act. NYC JwJ spearheaded a coalition of unions, health policy advocates, religious leaders, community groups, business leaders, and activists to win this historic legislation. The Health Care Security Act pilot project expands health care to 6,000 grocery workers and protects coverage for 21,000 working New Yorkers who currently receive health care through their employers.
RI JwJ Joins the Fight for Justice for Janitors; Mobilizes for 5 Day Fast
RI JwJ is supporting SEIU Local 615 in their fight for justice for downtown janitors in Providence, RI. JwJ has played a crucial role in the campaign, mobilizing hundreds for a labor day march and civil disobedience action to support the janitors and to support just and sustainable economic development, organizing an October 1 Workers' Rights Board hearing on the campaign, and galvanizing support for a 5-day fast to raise awareness about the janitors struggle. The WRB hearing resulted in the "Building One Providence Statement of Principles", and JwJ worked with SEIU to gather the endorsements of hundreds of community leaders and activists for these principles.
From Thursday October 27 to Tuesday November 1, JwJ mobilized support for the janitors' 5-day Fast for Working Families, where 6 janitors, students and community members fasted outside of a downtown building. JwJ organized over 100 supporters to fast in solidarity for one day at a time. JwJ worked with SEIU to recruit clergy and elected officials, including Bishop Tobin of the Catholic Diocese of Providence and Mayor David Cicilline, to visit the fasters each day and show their support for their struggle for decent wages and dignity. Clergy from many faiths prayed and held street services with the fasters.
Unions and community organizations came together to stand with the fasters. Leaders of AFSCME Council 94 visited the fast, the director of UNAP led the fasters in song at one evening vigil, DARE members fasted and visited the campaign throughout the weekend, as did many other community groups. The Workers' Rights Board chair, Councilman Miguel Luna and his colleagues in the Providence City Council, Hon. Luis Aponte and Hon. David Segal, were critical in galvanizing support and protection for the fasters. At the close of the fast, during an emotional ceremony, one of the fasters spoke. He said, "The building owner hasn't yet changed his mind, but we know that we have been successful. We have changed this city. Janitors are no longer ignored."
Atlanta JwJ & Massachusetts JwJ Host Workers' Human Rights Tour
American Rights at Work, a Washington D.C. based workers' rights advocacy organization, officially launched its Human Rights Tour in Atlanta, Georgia on October 14, 2005. American Rights at Work focuses on the widespread abuses of workers in the U.S. in the workplace and the gross injustices that occur when they try to defend themselves. The Human Rights Tour delegation included: Hon. David Bonior, Former Michigan representative and Democratic House Whip, Chair, American Rights at Work; Marieclaire Acosta, Human rights activist and former Deputy Secretary for Human Rights and Democracy, Mexico; Rev. Calvin Morris, Executive Director, Community Renewal Society, Chicago JwJ, National JwJ Board Member; Veronique Marleau: Human Rights activist in Quebec and consultant to the United Nations International Labor Organization; Maria Adela Mejia Perez: Human rights activist and union organizer, Guatemala; Rev. James Orange, chairperson, Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda and National JwJ Workers' Rights Board member; and Allie Robbins, staff at United Students Against Sweatshops, National JwJ Board member.
Events for the Tour's stop in Atlanta began with a workers' rights press conference, which took place in Georgia's State Capital building and featured as speakers: Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta; Mary Beth Maxwell and David Bonior of ARAW; a Cingular Wireless representative (which exemplified a company with a good working relationship with an organized workforce); Georgia State AFL-CIO President - Richard Ray; North Georgia Central Labor Council President - Charlie Fleming; , Terence Courtney - Coordinator of Atlanta Jobs; and others. The next event was a Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board Hearing at Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. The WRB Hearing included testimony from workers from Air Tran who are trying to organize a union with the Teamsters; workers from Alltel who have organized with CWA and are trying to win a first contract with the company; hotel workers who are trying to organize with UNITE-HERE; and a waste worker who is trying to win union representation with the Teamsters and a fair contract from a waste company. The Atlanta Workers' Rights Board welcomed the delegation as guest members and was chaired by Ajamu Baraka - Director of the US Human Rights Network and a member of Atlanta's WRB. Other events for the weekend included a Latino Luncheon at a local community restaurant, and a labor in the pulpits sermon at First Iconium Baptist Church in East Atlanta.
On October 20th, the Human Rights Tour arrived in Massachusetts for a series of hearings and actions. The tour began at a Faith Breakfast with janitors from Harvard who told of their struggle for a new contract at the richest university in North America. From there, the delegation was joined by members of IBEW 2222 and CWA 1400 to interview Sandra Moose, a Verizon Board member, on alleged organizing rights abuses in the Wireless division. The delegation, lead by Rev. Calvin Morris of Chicago Workers' Rights Board, was refused an interview and had to issue a summons under the door.
Later that afternoon, Hon. David Bonior (D- Mich), opened the Workers' Rights Board hearing on the Right to Organize in Massachusetts at Boston City Hall. The delegation was joined by Boston City Council President Michael Flaherty and City Councilors Felix Arroyo and Charles Yanceyas well as Dr. Charles Clements, Executive Director of Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Pastor Laurel Scott of Old West Church, and Jeremy Pittman, Deputy Director of MassEquality- a leading LBGT human rights organization. Workers told the board of threats intimidation and firings that took place when they organized and demanded justice in their workplace. One worker told of how Harbor Side Nursing Home filed board charges after a successful union drive accusing her of threatening to curse her co-workers Voodoo if they did not vote for a union. Another worker told of the $1 million that Mass Eye and Ear infirmary spent to bust their union of 20 people.
That evening, Cambridge Vice Mayor Marjorie Decker opened a teach-in at Harvard University, where workers and students recounted their struggle for justice and dignity on and around campus. A worker from a local movie theater testified to the need to make the jobs better rather than leave, while another student highlighted the need for solidarity with working people.
On October 21st, one group from the delegation went to New Bedford to speak with Guatemalan worker in the fish houses. These workers told of dangerous, dirty work that they were often under paid for. Workers pointed to their immigration status as the reason why fish house employers can get away with the poor working conditions and pay. Another group of delegates joined Rep. James McGovern (D- Mass) at a Workers Rights Board Hearing at Clark University in Worcester. Workers from central Massachusetts told of being fired for wanting a union on their job site. Workers from St. Gobain recounted their 5-year struggle, with the company demanding a decertification election, or they would close. The delegates Marieclaire Acosta and Veronique Marleau joined Rep. McGovern in expressing their outrage at the treatment of workers in Worcester. Massachusetts Jobs with Justice will be compiling the local stories for a report from the Workers' Rights Board to be delivered on Dec. 8th in honor of International Human Rights Day.
Solidarity Works - Victories in Vermont!
In a story that began with a Workers' Rights Hotline call to the Vermont Workers' Center in early July, a construction company working in Bennington, VT has agreed to correct the nonpayment of wages to workers at the site. The Barrett Company is a non-union contractor building a hotel in the Bennington area. Workers on the project contacted the VWC because they were not receiving their pay. VWC was able to work with some of the Building Trades unions to muster legal support for them, and to mobilize union members and community allies to bring public attention to the workers' plight. Often, even when employers are breaking the law, non-union workers have trouble enforcing their rights. In this case the VWC's solidarity network was able to produce enough publicity to shine a bright light on poor corporate practices.
Also in July, after weeks of a relentless public campaign for a fair severance, factory workers at Specialty Filaments Inc., members of UNITE HERE Local 438, reached an agreement with the company. With the odds against them, the workers were able to receive a fair severance from the Boston-based venture capital firm that bought the company in 2002 and is now its closing its doors. The Vermont Workers' Center has been proud to have this local factory workers' union as part of our coalition and proud of them for having a strong union that showed outstanding membership participation and local democracy. When workers get laid off it's a sad story for them, their families, and the community, but the Specialty Filaments workers have reason to hold their heads high as they wind up their many years of service. They have taught us all a lesson on how to get things done and why its important to have unions: everyone has to stick together!
Indianapolis JwJ Pledgers Sit-Down for Justice for Janitors
On August 3rd, janitors and community supporters rallied outside of Wellpoint/Anthem headquarters in Indianapolis to demand justice for the janitors who clean the offices there. Wellpoint/Anthem is the largest health care provider in the nation, covering 28 million people, yet none of the janitors who clean offices for GSF at 3 Wellpoint/Anthem locations in the Midwest has health care. The rally culminated in nine supporters, including five JwJ pledge card signers, sitting down in an act of civil disobedience and getting arrested. The fight to organize and fight for a fair contract for janitors throughout the Midwest will continue to build momentum this fall. In Indianapolis, JwJ has been mobilizing support to pass a city council resolution in support of the efforts of the janitors to organize and Jobs with Justice is working with SEIU locals in cities throughout the Midwest to gear up for contract negotiations this winter.
Western Massachusetts JwJ Hosts Performance of Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's History"
Western Mass JwJ organized a powerful performance of "Voices of a People's History," a series of testimonies - speeches, letters, poems, songs, memoirs, protests - from our rich history of resistance. Howard Zinn, a National WRB member, started the event off with a brief introduction. Performers, most of whom were local activists, then read selected testimonies from Zinn's new book, along with testimonies from Western Massachusetts, which were compiled by local JwJ activists. Performers included South African poet Dennis Brutus. About 1,200 people attended the event, which raised $9500 for Western Massachusetts JwJ. The event was co-hosted and sponsored by the Odyssey Bookshop, the Western Mass AFSC, and Mt. Holyoke College. (Zinn's new book is "Voices of a People's History of the United States," a primary-source companion to "A People's History of the United States," available from Seven Stories Press.)
media links
NY Health Care Security Act
20 BIG IDEAS FOR OUR NEXT MAYOR
CityLimits.org - USA
... And, thanks to the savvy work of its backers, most notably Jobs With Justice and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, it marks an ideological coup. ...
New York Health Security Act Passes
New York, NY
NYC Requires Retailers to Provide Health Care
New Rules Project - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... Brennan Center for Justice and enacted through a broad campaign of business leaders, labor unions, and community groups organized by New York Jobs with Justice ...
Council OKs health plan
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... with the help of a coalition of nonprofit groups, unions, business groups, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School and New York Jobs With Justice. ...
The Cat and the Bag: Three Little Pigs
Gothamist - NY,USA
... Council Speaker Gifford Miller was joined today by Council Health Committee Chair Christine C. Quinn and representatives from Jobs with Justice, the Brennan ...
TIme to ante up for health care
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... Jobs with Justice, a labor coalition promoting the proposed law, has rounded up support from civic-minded business leaders like John Catsimatidis, the CEO of ...
Wal-Mart
Supersize Me! Wal-Mart says bigger is better, rebuffs efforts to ...
Vermont Guardian - Winooski,VT,USA
... Last month, the Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC), the Vermont Workers' Center, and the Vermont Livable Wage Campaign (VLWC) joined forces to help to ...
Controversy Surrounds New Wal-Mart
Ohio News Now
Many oppose giant retailer
Indianapolis Star - United States
... Robert Peterson, who said he is with Central Indiana Jobs with Justice -- a workers' rights organization -- said his group has watched Wal-Mart for a long time ...
The devil and Daniel Wal-Mart
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... who really does seem to deserve a place in the officially inane Bush-Wah administration -- I wistfully recall Philly Jobs With Justice's current initiative ...
St. Louis
Workers Independent News - Madison,WI,USA
... Jobs With Justice's Erica Smiley says the National Worker's Rights Board was formed in response to a National Labor Relations Board that's not protecting ...
National Workers' Rights Board hearing on Wal-Mart
Workers Indepednent News
...At the national annual meeting of Jobs with Justice this coming weekend, the National Workers' Rights Board will draw more than a thousand workers and community activists...
Why she's protesting Wal-Mart
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... Surgenson. . . . They are fighting back against this corporate giant without asking for much: just jobs with justice! Interestingly ...
Unions Attack Two Retail Giants
WTOL - Toledo,OH,USA
... "They really are not a good corporate citizen," said Karen Krause of the "Jobs with Justice Coalition." "They have been charged with labor violations, they pay ...
Labor Split
A New Labor Federation Claims Its Space: If Enthusiasm on Display ...
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
... Louis the weekend immediately preceding the CtW event. That event was the Jobs with Justice National Annual Meeting. Jobs with Justice ...
AFL -- See Ya Later
Buffalo Alt Press Online - NY, United states
... Our union identified that as a the critical crisis more that fifteen years ago, when we helped start Jobs with Justice and put enormous effort into building it ...
Scenes and Silver Linings from Labor's Crack-Up
Counterpunch
...All of those actions involved broad alliances, often with the quasi-independent Jobs With Justice (which, having no affiliation issues, should gain in importance in the current chaos)...
Debate continues on Illinois impact
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
... "What we're trying to prevent is a race to the bottom," said James Thindwa, executive director of Chicago Jobs With Justice, which is asking its members ...
Labor Split a Mixed Bag
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... Perhaps the model should be Jobs With Justice, the labor-community coalition that asks members to pledge "to be there" at least five times a year for...
Justice for Janitors
Protest in downtown Providence
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... The fast is part of the national Justice for Janitors movement, organized by the Service Employees International Union, Jobs for Justice and other groups. ...
Judge orders city to let fasting protesters be
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... than 300. The fast is part of the national Justice for Janitors movement, organized by the SEIU, Jobs for Justice and other groups.
The campaign is called Justice for Janitors
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... Janitors campaign, and was organized by the Service Employees International Union Local 615, UNITE-HERE Local 217, Rhode Island Jobs for Justice, and Direct ...
Transit
Replacing old route No. 61 is MARTA goal
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... like those in Bowen Homes who depend on public transportation are the ones hurt the most, said Terence Courtney, coordinator of Jobs With Justice, an alliance ...
Philadelphia: SEPTA Workers Are ON STRIKE!!
NEFAC - Canada
... Bob answered a lot of questions for us including many that were raised by commenters in response to Fabricio Rodriguez of Jobs with Justice who wrote about ...
Workers in Danger of Losing Health Care Coverage
Philadelphia, PA
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Immigration, hate crimes, monuments
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... And the grand jury can be abused. . "Jobs with justice," demand MARTA employees who should consider themselves lucky to have jobs with pay. ...
Students & Teachers
MY TURN: What Colchester teachers strike teaches us
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... James Haslam is the director of the Vermont Workers' Center -- Jobs With Justice, he can be contacted at james@workerscenter.org or 802-229-0009.
Help Wanted: Low-Cost Adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
... University, faculty members have organized contingent faculty rights boards modeled on the workers rights boards designed by the organization Jobs With Justice ...
Anti-expansion groups join together
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian - MA,USA
... Doddley, a member of AFL-CIO, an umbrella organization of unions across the nation, and Dan Clifford, a member of the local chapter of Jobs for Justice, a pro ...
Student groups cut ties with TSG funding
Temple News Online (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... that we do.". SLAP receives its funding from Jobs for Justice, the national organization that it is affiliated with. "We still...
Living Wage's success continues beyond the gates
Georgetown Voice (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
... This week, coalition representatives will fly to Saint Louis for the Jobs with Justice conference, LWAC member and current Georgetown student Rachel Murray ...
Labor Day
Thanking Labor
TomPaine.com - Washington,D.C.,USA
... For the last dozen years, unions have formed coalitions through Jobs with Justice and with community groups like ACORN to win living-wage ordinances in more ...
Zoo picnic heralds union labor
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... The 2,500-member Kentucky Jobs with Justice, a local coalition of community, religious and labor groups that advocates workers' rights, expected to recruit ...
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Piercy's votes keep peace on council
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA
... Association. Syrett, a south Eugene resident, is an organizer of the Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network, a labor advocacy group. ...
SENATOR BRUNO, WORKER'S RIGHTS BOARD HIGHLIGHT CSEA VOICE SUMMIT
Empire Information Services, Inc. (press release) - Schenectady,NY,USA
... Before that, participants had an opportunity to air their issues and problems before a Worker's Rights Board charged with developing recommendations to resolve ...
Howard Zinn comes to the Valley to voice his newest novel
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian - MA,USA
... John Brown in Springfield). The performance is free and is in support of Western Massachusetts Jobs With Justice. So students and ...
For council hopefuls, pointed questions on issues key to ethnics
Boston Globe - United States
... 2. Last summer, I chaired a Workers Rights Board hearing concerning serious discrimination charges filed by Haitian nurses at Harborside Healthcare. ...
Immokalee Workers Take Down Taco Bell
Monthly Review - Herndon,VA,USA
... Jobs with Justice (JwJ) chapters around the country played a vital role in connecting CIW tours with local labor and community groups and helping to build ...
Advocates push for Living Wage
Oberlin Review - OH,USA
... Jaclyn Stacy, the regional organizer for Jobs with Justice, spoke briefly after Hanauer about her action-oriented work in fighting Wal-Mart. ...
Community Leaders Launch New Institution to Defend Workers' ...
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
Dozens of community leaders will officially launch a Workers' Rights Board on LI this week that will take a stand for the rights of working people. ...
Hampton Inn hotel builders respond to lawsuit
Bennington Banner - Bennington,VT,USA
... after the lawsuit was filed, around 30 concerned citizens, some associated with the statewide workers' rights organization Vermont Workers' Center, gathered at ...
Fight for Survival of Union Rolls On at Northwest Airlines
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... it shows that we haven't learned a lesson from PATCO and on," said Al Benchich, president of UAW Local 909 and co-chair of Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice ...
Vermonters rally at anti-war protest on Statehouse steps
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... Friedman, vice chairwoman of the Vermont Progressive Party and a Vermont Workers' Center and Livable Wage Campaign board member, sought to validate anti-war ...
Glory days seem gone for Bennington unions
Bennington Banner - Bennington,VT,USA
... seen the loss of manufacturing jobs and everything that went with them, for example good salaries and insurance," said Julia Curry of the Vermont Workers Center ...
Crowd rallies in support of living wage
Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
... Other organizations at the main rally included the Gray Panthers, a seniors advocacy group, Veterans for Peace, the ACLU of Texas and Jobs with Justice. ...
Jobs With Justice Rallies Latinos in Morristown
Tennessee Independent Media - TN,USA
... 3:00pm. Jobs with Justice is helping to Turn out people for a pre-election solidarity rally on Sunday, September 4 at 3 pm. This ...
Fighting for your rights: Vermont Workers' Center helps low-wage ...
Vermont Guardian - Winooski,VT,USA
... door-to-door campaign, a broad coalition of activists, union organizers, and workers banded together to form the Vermont Workers' Center, whose goal was to ...
Social Justice Alliance Connects Globally
Z Magazine (subscription) - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... LEON GUERRERO: GGJ includes US-based national and regional networks like Jobs with Justice, United Students Against Sweatshops, the Indigenous Environmental ...
Payday Loans Protestors
KVAL - Eugene,OR,USA
Friday night members of the Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network gathered outside the Eugene Emerald's game to protest the payday loan industry. ...
Latino Workers Seek a Union in Poultry Plant
Tennessee Independent Media - TN,USA
... Jobs with Justice, Interfaith Worker Justice, and other community groups were in attendance on Sunday to show the workers they were not alone in their struggle ...
