JwJ News 2008
OCTOBER 2008
- Jobs with Justice Demands an Economic Recovery Plan for the Rest of Us
- JwJ Builds Broad Support for the Employee Free Choice Act!
- Mid Tennessee JwJ Helps Form Nashville Metro Taxi Alliance
- Security Guards at Philadelphia Museum of Art Win Paid Sick Days!
- Pennsylvania Governor Makes History with First-in-the-Nation Resolution to Combat Sweatshops
- Verizon Settlement Provides New Union Jobs, Protects Health Care, Boosts Wages
- Vermont Workers' Center/JwJ Health Care Campaign off to a Great Start
- Indian "Guest Workers" Continue Struggle for Dignity and Justice
- Portland JwJ Helps Workers Win First Contract at Rosemont Treatment Center
- Remembering Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Jobs with Justice Demands an Economic Recovery Plan for the Rest of Us
The Wall-Street blank check bail-out, driven by corporate greed moved through Congress without the enforceable commitments that JwJ and allies have insisted are needed. Several national groups and economists agree that we can and must push for a better deal for Main Street.
On Thursday, September 25, JwJ and allies took to the streets to demand a better bailout. On October 1 st, JwJ coalitions in seventeen cities across the country organized actions to demand:
- Solve the housing and foreclosure crisis
- Commit to fast-tracking a true recovery plan that addresses jobs, infrastructure, pensions, etc.
- Make the people that got rich while creating the crisis pay for the clean-up
- Restructure the banking system Short-term: public ownership for public assistance (i.e. equity stake for public cash)
- Long-term: re-regulate private finance and expand public and community-owned alternatives
Click here to see more video, photos, and press clips from the day of action.
Jobs with Justice members know that Congress needs to act strongly (but not in a panic) to address the immediate financial crisis, but we also need a deeper, long-term restructuring of our economy so it works for everyone. Stay tuned: JwJ is developing plans now for more actions, forums, and more for November and beyond!
Jobs with Justice Builds Broad Support for the Employee Free Choice Act!
This is a very challenging moment in our history, but also a moment filled with opportunities, including the chance to take a big step forward in our fight for worker justice. In 2009, we can win back the right to form a union and bargain collectively in the United States. Jobs with Justice is reaching out to our allies outside of the union movement to demonstrate broad support for the Employee Free Choice Act. We need your active support in this struggle!
Our commitment to winning the Employee Free Choice Act has been amplified by the worsening economic crisis. Access to collective bargaining rights, freely chosen by workers is the best way to guarantee better benefits and wages for working families. The Employee Free Choice Act would ensure that when a majority of employees in a workplace decide to form a union, they can do so without the debilitating obstacles employers now use to block their free choice.
Specifically, the Employee Free Choice Act would strengthen protections for workers' freedom to form unions by requiring employers to recognize a union once a majority of workers signed cards authorizing union representation. It also would provide for mediation and arbitration of first-contract disputes and authorize stronger penalties for employers that violate the legal rights of workers seeking to form unions or negotiate first contracts.
To date, many JwJ coalitions have engaged in efforts to win the Employee Free Choice Act. Here are a few examples:
Colorado JwJ and National JwJ teamed up to educate hundreds of people at the Democratic National Convention about the need for the Employee Free Choice Act. They collected 900 cards in support of the Act in Denver during the week of the DNC.- In Albany, NY the Capital District Labor Religion Coalition/JwJ highlighted the need for the Employee Free Choice Act in events surrounding their Labor in the Pulpits program this year. Leading up to Labor Day, the CD LRC/JwJ held a faith-labor breakfast, educating clergy and faith allies about what happens when workers try to organize a union and asking for their support for the Employee Free Choice Act. On Labor Day, churches hosted speakers and distributed bulletin inserts on workers' rights and the Employee Free Choice Act.
- At the University of Maine, Wildcat SLAP, a student group that supports workers' rights, is hosting its first open discussion group with students and faculty on Oct. 28. William Murphy, Director of the Maine Bureau of Labor Education and the Director of the Eastern Maine Labor Council, and Jack McKay of Food AND Medicine/JwJ will lead a discussion about the economy, labor, the Employee Free Choice Act and the election.
- Kentucky JwJ is making systematic presentations with key community-based ally organizations on the need for and utility of the Employee Free Choice Act by connecting it to local organizing drives of workers (e.g. a Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY that workers are trying to organize). These ally organizations include: Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY Fairness Campaign, Women In Transition, and the KY Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
- Portland JwJ will host a gathering of their Workers' Rights Board (WRB) where they will discuss the Employee Free Choice Act in the context of workers' current reality when they try to organize as well as the economic crisis faced by working families. Their goal is to sign up as many as 75 WRB members state-wide onto a sign-on letter as well as to gather personal statements from WRB members about why they support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Nationally, Jobs with Justice's goal is to demonstrate broad support for the Employee Free Choice Act by contributing thousands of cards supporting the Employee Free Choice Act to the One Million Strong for the Employee Free Choice Act Mobilization, getting hundreds of grassroots organizations signed on to endorse the Employee Free Choice Act, and generating a letter from at least 150 Workers' Rights Board members. These demonstrations of support from thousands of people outside of the union movement will be delivered to the next President and Congress in early 2009.
For more information on how you can help win the Employee Free Choice Act click here.
Mid Tennessee JwJ Helps Form Nashville Metro Taxi Alliance
"We work long hours, sometimes 16-18 hour days, just to make ends meet, but we have no say when it comes to the fees we pay to the cab companies for our permits or the number of drivers out there" says Ismail Abdinasir, a member of the Nashville Metro Taxi Alliance. "The vast majority of taxi drivers provide efficient, courteous service, and speak great English. We are a very important part of this city and the tourism industry here. So why is it that we've been seeing racist portrayals of who we are and negative descriptions of the service we provide?"
Hoping to create a forum for their concerns, this year Nashville taxi drivers formed the Nashville Metro Taxi Alliance with the help of Mid Tennessee JwJ. Mid TN JwJ's first act to support the NMTDA was to host a taxi "Reality Tour" launched from the parking lot of Jefferson Street Baptist Church. The tour paired faith and community leaders with taxi drivers for a one hour tour a typical day-in-the-life of a driver. The tours were the beginning of a public education and media campaign which changed the very terms of the debate of the role taxi drivers play in Nashville's transportation infrastructure. With the support of Mid TN Jobs with Justice, media coverage transformed in the course of days from racist portrayals of the mostly East African drivers to a real discussion of the sweatshop conditions of their employment.
The campaign heated up throughout the summer. Mid Tennessee JwJ intern Juliana Cabrales led a research campaign resulting in over 280 surveys with Nashville's taxi drivers. The surveys are the backbone of JwJ's recent study of the taxi industry in Nashville, Driving Towards Poverty, which will be used as evidence in upcoming Worker's Rights Board hearings.
Meanwhile, on July 28th the drivers of Allied and Nashville Cab came together to stand up against their exploitation. More than 140 drove in a caravan, followed by all of Nashville's major media outlets, to the office of Taxi USA, Inc. to turn in their equipment to the company. On July 20, drivers gathered on the steps of the Metro Courthouse in Downtown Nashville and held a press conference for local media outlets. On August 11, drivers staged a "sick out". Eventually, Nashville's Mayor Karl Dean committed to meeting with the NMTDA and going on his own reality tour.
Supporting the work of the NMTDA has been a critical piece of Mid TN JwJ's worker center activities, and with the strength of our traditional coalition, Mid TN JwJ has been instrumental in moving a public discussion about the role of government to protect the rights of the workers who perform one of the most important public services there is, "moving the city."
To find out more about organizing in the taxi industry in other cities, visit http://www.latwa.org/LATWA_White_Paper.pdf and http://www.urbanjustice.org/pdf/publications/Unfare.pdf
Security Guards at Philadelphia Museum of Art Win Paid Sick Days!
On September 25th, AlliedBarton management distributed a memo to their 130 security guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art stating that officers with at least one year of full-time service at the property are eligible for between 1 and 3 days of paid sick leave. This benefit is effective immediately and includes workers whose anniversary date of hire was July 1, 2007. This benefit will provide 2,000-3,000 hours for workers to attend to their physical, mental and spiritual health and adds up to $8,000-$12,000 in wages and replacement wages to guards and communities across Philadelphia.
This benefit is the latest victory for the Philadelphia Officers and Workers Rising (POWR) campaign, an innovative effort organized by Philadelphia Jobs with Justice to win work place benefits for security guards which brings together workers, labor unions, congregations and students. This is a great first step, But the POWR campaign continue to push the Philadelphia Museum of Art to strive to reach the level expressed in the Philadelphia Living Wage Ordinance. Additionally, dozens of other guards on the property, guards that work for other company's but are doing the same jobs as AlliedBarton guards, continue to work with out any paid sick days.
Check out the latest POWR updates at http://phillyjwj.blogspot.com/
Pennsylvania Governor Makes History with First-in-the-Nation Resolution to Combat Sweatshops
Over the summer, after pressure from Philadelphia Jobs with Justice and Sweatfree Communities, Governor Edward G. Rendell signed a landmark, first-in-the-nation resolution to end tax dollar support for sweatshops. The resolution commits the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to participate in the State and Local Government Sweatfree Consortium. The Sweatfree Consortium will help state and local governments enforce their commitments to end public purchasing from sweatshops by investigating factories and engaging in cooperative purchasing from vendors and factories that meet Consortium standards for labor and human rights.
On July 14th, coinciding with the National Governor's Association (NGA) 100th meeting in Philadelphia, Jobs with Justice and Sweatfree Communities held a Workers Rights Board Hearing on Sweatshops and State Purchasing. Sweatshop workers and allies testified about the abuses in the production of uniforms and other state-purchased products.
Verizon Settlement Provides New Union Jobs, Protects Health Care, Boosts Wages
In August, CWA and IBEW reached a new three-year contract settlement with Verizon that achieves union employees' major goals of promoting union jobs, expanding bargaining rights, providing good health care for both active and retired workers, and increasing wages and pensions for 65,000 workers from Virginia to Maine.
In a breakthrough agreement, Verizon will extend union recognition to 600 former MCI technicians at Verizon Business who have been seeking representation for nearly two years. These workers, who perform the same jobs as the union workforce, have received strong support from CWA and IBEW members and from Jobs with Justice in a campaign to "tear down the wall" between union and non-union sectors at Verizon. The agreement also includes new opportunities for union workers to provide customer support and service at Verizon Business.
The issue of health costs and benefits was a major focus of the talks, as it has been in contract negotiations in virtually every industry. The settlement preserves fully-paid health care premiums for all active and retired employees. Future hires will have a defined contribution formula for retirement health care with the amount of Verizon's contributions subject to negotiation in each subsequent contract. In addition, Verizon agreed to work with the unions in a joint effort to achieve meaningful health care reform. The company will provide funding of $2 million per year to the project.
JwJ coalitions from Virginia to Maine supported union members and Verizon Business technicians in this important victory.
Vermont Workers' Center/JwJ Health Care Campaign off to a Great Start
This summer, volunteers and staff from the Vermont Workers' Center/JwJ have been asking working Vermonters a simple question - "Do you believe we have a human right to healthcare?"
That question is part of a survey being conducted as the first phase of the Workers' Center's "Healthcare Is a Human Right" campaign. This campaign aims to change what is "politically possible" in the healthcare debate through grassroots organizing and expanding public understanding of the human rights framework. "Sixty years ago, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the nations of the world - including the U.S. - declared that everyone has a basic human right to medical care and security in the event of sickness or disability," said Dawn Stanger, president of the Workers' Center. "Sadly, that right is not respected in the U.S., the wealthiest country in the world."
So far, the Center has surveyed over four hundred Vermonters, with a goal of reaching well over a thousand this fall. Some of the survey results have been eye-openers. Approximately two-thirds of respondents had refrained from getting health care at some point because they felt they were unable to afford it. A majority have stayed in a job only because of health insurance benefits. Almost one in five have experienced discrimination in trying to access healthcare, and more than one in ten respondents have stayed in an abusive relationship in order not to lose health benefits.
Surveys are being collected door-to-door, in workplaces, at community events and house parties hosted by volunteers. "The effort is really to try to speak to people who haven't been involved in politics before," said Colin Robinson of the Vermont Livable Wage Campaign, which is joining the Workers' Center in the campaign.
The next stage of the campaign will feature Human Rights Hearings in locations around the state in the fall, where community leaders will gather to hear testimony from those most affected by the healthcare crisis: working Vermonters, the unemployed, retirees, the un- and under-insured. The Workers' Center expects to hold hearings in Brattleboro, Burlington, Barre and the Northeast Kingdom in the coming months, expanding to more locations as the campaign continues.
Indian "Guest Workers" Continue Struggle for Dignity and Justice
This summer Jobs with Justice activists around the country supported the Indian guestworkers' struggle for dignity and justice, mobilizing pressure on representatives of the Department of Justice locally, organizing call-in days, and even fasting in solidarity with the workers. Together with the New Orleans Workers Center and many other national allies, the campaign of the Indian Workers' Congress (IWC) has gained national attention. In India, the families of workers have organized themselves and with allied organizations have helped the struggle to gain media and political attention (For background on the Indian Guestworkers' struggle, click here.)
When the workers suspended their 29-day hunger strike in June they had gained the support of 18 members of Congress, the House Judiciary Committee, the House Labor Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, several Members of Parliament in India, and labor and religious leaders in the US and in India.
In Kerala, India, the state where the majority of the workers come from, the Chief Minister of the State initiated a police investigation after meeting with the workers' family members. The families' organizing has also succeeded in pushing Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs, Mr. Vayalar Ravi to make a statement asserting that the Ministry has suspended the license of the Indian recruiting agent that worked with Signal International.
Even with these remarkable gains, the campaign is far from over. Refusing to recognize what these guestworkers have suffered as human trafficking, the Department of Justice continues to deny them basic safety and protection during its investigation. The workers continue to live like fugitives, in legal limbo, and their families are still burdened by extraordinary debt and painful separation. Meanwhile Signal International continues to run a profitable business while lawmakers design an expansion of the U.S. guestworker program.
The workers in the U.S. and their families in India continue pushing for criminal investigations for human trafficking in both countries, and they are working toward getting a hearing on the abuses of the guestworker program in Congress. This summer in India, the workers' families formed an IWC Families Network to support each other and to work to get their stories heard in India and around the world. The workers and their families want to change policy in India and the U.S. regulating international labor recruiters so that no more families face the deception and hardship they have gone through. On November 14, during India's Parliament Session, some of the families will speak in Delhi at a major public forum, alongside prominent lawyers, academics, journalists and elected officials on policy implications that this campaign has raised and will highlight on the Signal workers' struggle.
The stories of the families have been launched on a new web page, www.sld-india.org.
Portland JwJ Helps Workers Win First Contract at Rosemont Treatment Center
Employees at the Rosemont Treatment Center and School in Southeast Portland, the largest secure residential treatment center for troubled teen girls in the Pacific Northwest, have negotiated a groundbreaking first contract with Morrison Child and Family Services after six months of collective bargaining. After a near-unanimous ratification, about 60 workers at the facility for troubled girls gained an immediate average wage increase of 3.63% and improved sick leave, holiday leave and bereavement leave as well as key improvements on health and safety issues affecting them and the girls in their charge and a range of new workplace rights. "I don't have the words to describe how this day has changed my life," said one exultant member of the bargaining team, Saige Gracie. "So many hours of effort, heartbreak, fury and sweat. My heart is on fire."
Portland JwJ supported the workers in their efforts by organizing a supportive rally, engaging their WRB members to apply pressure, and urging their members to call in their support for the workers. Rosemont employees and their community supporters pressed hard for a compensation and benefit package that will help to alleviate chronic staff turnover at the facility.
Remembering Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio, passed away suddenly on August 20. She was in her 5th term as representative of the 11th District covering most of the east side of Cleveland.
Ms. Tubbs Jones was a co-sponsor of legislative efforts to broaden health care coverage for low- and middle-income people and of programs supporting the re-entry of convicts into their communities. She was also the author of legislation requiring certification for mortgage brokers and stiffer penalties for predatory loans.
Ms. Tubbs Jones was a champion for social justice in the Cleveland area and was an active member of the Cleveland Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board. She took her role on the WRB very seriously, and would personally go out and do the leg work and research needed to ensure the success of the Workers' Rights Board. She will be missed.
MEDIA LINKS
Health care costs take a toll on Missouri's farms, ranches
High Plains Journal, KS - Oct 13, 2008
... is the result of research and analysis conducted in conjunction with Missouri Jobs with Justice, St. Louis University Center for Health Law Studies and ...
Cleveland: 'Bail out workers, not bankers'
Workers World -Oct 10, 2008
Part of a national day of protest, the demonstration was called by Jobs with Justice and joined by members of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations ...
Labor-led coalition demands recovery plan for Main Street
People's Weekly World - Oct 9, 2008
Others included leaders of ACORN, Jobs with Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the National Consumers League, Campaign for America's Future ...
Healthcare coverage ails rural Callaway
Fulton Sun, USA - Oct 9, 2008
It worked with Missouri Jobs with Justice, St. Louis University Center for Health Law Studies and the Boston-based Access Project in this study that used ...
Tompkins County center strives to help disadvantaged workers
Catholic Courier, NY - Oct 9, 2008
... band together with others, that's when you stand up and have a voice," said Meyers, who serves as coordinator of the Tompkins County Workers' Center. ...
The Best City Council Candidate Forum You Didn't Attend
The Portland Mercury, OR - Oct 8, 2008
... laws are," and has been a supporter of the day laborer center "since before it was approved by the council," via her work with Jobs with Justice. ...
Voter registration booms all over region
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Oct 7, 2008
Other nonprofit groups, including Kentuckians For The Commonwealth and Kentucky Jobs With Justice, also signed up voters in recent days. ...
Fifth Unity March raises poverty awareness
Daily Illini, IL - Oct 4, 2008
Groups sponsoring the march included Central Illinois Jobs with Justice, School for Desiging a Society and University Coalition of Trades and Labor Unions. ...
Green jobs may help economic crisis
Pioneer Log, OR - Oct 4, 2008
by Liz Scott // news editor Margaret Butler from Jobs with Justice and Barbara Byrd from the Apollo Alliance, in conjunction with the national day of action ...
Utahns protest $700 billion bailout plan
Deseret News, UT - Oct 3, 2008
It's going to affect all of us," said Linda Parsons, director of Utah Jobs with Justice, a coalition that organized the event. "The propaganda that was put ...
Faith Leaders Call for a Moratorium on ICE Raids at City Hall Rally
Open Media Boston, Massachusetts - Oct 3, 2008
A smaller rally called by Jobs with Justice to protest the government response to the financial crisis from the perspective of working families immediately ...
Anti-War Protest In St. Louis: While Palin Preaches, These People ...
Huffington Post, NY -Oct 3, 2008
Among these groups were people of faith, who had affiliated themselves with Missouri Jobs With Justice. This subgroup included religious leaders from St. ...
Fifth annual march urges passage of tax hike to assist poor
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette, IL - Oct 3, 2008
Sponsors include: AWARE, Radio Liberacion!, Prairie Green Party, Central Illinois Jobs With Justice, School for Designing a Society, Urbana-Champaign ...
Day of protest over the bailout
Socialist Worker Online, IL - Oct 3, 2008
Called by Jobs with Justice, and cosponsored by several unions and activist groups around the country, the rallies called for making Wall Street pay for the ...
World on edge as US votes on financial rescue
Citizen, South Africa - Oct 3, 2008
Demonstrators from DC Jobs for Justice rally against the $700bln bailout plan outside the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC on October 1. ...
Bailout bill faces crunch US House test
Citizen, South Africa - Oct 3, 2008
Demonstrators from DC Jobs for Justice rally against the 700 billion dollar bailout outside the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC. ...
Unity March to fight against poverty
Daily Illini, IL - Oct 2, 2008
Groups sponsoring the march include Central Illinois Jobs with Justice, School for Designing a Society and University Coalition of Trades and Labor Unions. ...
On the Ground with Working Families in Oregon
AFL-CIO, DC - Oct 2, 2008
After a brief break, we joined 200 Jobs with Justice demonstrators at the federal building calling for the prioritization of working family needs in ...
Jobs With Justice Hold Rally Against Bailout
OPB News, OR -Oct 2, 2008
... to go to the House of Representatives." The group Jobs With Justice organized the rally. It describes itself as a coalition focusing on economic justice.
Ithacans rally against bailout legislation
Ithaca Journal, NY - Oct 2, 2008
By Tim Ashmore • Journal Staff • October 2, 2008 ITHACA - The general feeling from attendees and speakers alike at the Tompkins County Workers' Center rally ...
Local Workers Rally Against Bailout Plan
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY -Oct 2, 2008
... as the Tompkins County Workers' Center held a rally against the embattled $700 billion bailout plan, which the Senate endorsed last night. ...
'Turn this country around'
South Bend Tribune, IN - Oct 2, 2008
... local activists from faith, labor, environmental and community groups at the Saint Joseph Valley Project's 10th annual Jobs with Justice Banquet. ...
Activists protest financial bailout
Enterprise News, MA - Oct 2, 2008
"We need a bailout for Main Street, not Wall Street," said Russ Davis, executive director at Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, a coalition of labor and ...
Pressure to approve bailout as crisis spreads
National Post, Canada - Oct 2, 2008
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImagesDemonstrators from 'DC Jobs for Justice' rally against the US$700-billion dollar bailout outside the Capitol Building in ...
Boston Protests Bailout Plan - Among Other Things - On Government ...
The Phoenix, MA - Oct 1, 2008
From the 4pm Massachusetts Jobs with Justice rally against the bailout plan to the 5pm Moral Voices for Immigration Reform event, there was nary a left wing ...
Walden says bailout plan will benefit S. Oregonians
KDRV, OR - Oct 1, 2008
Jobs with Justice, a national campaign group for workers rights organized a Day of Action Wednesday to protest the bailout plan, including a rally at the ...
'Billionaires' deride US financial bailout bill
Reuters India, India - Oct 1, 2008
Members of Jobs With Justice, a national campaign for workers' rights, took on the roles of the country's rich, saying Congress should accept the plan to ...
US Senate backs $700bn bail-out plan
EducationGuardian.co.uk, UK - Oct 1, 2008
Jobs With Justice, a workers' rights group, held rallies outside Washington branches of Bank of America and Citibank. Sarcastically dubbing themselves ...
Bailout opposed from both left, right
Washington Times, DC - Oct 1, 2008
Jobs with Justice, an advocacy group for community and labor organizations, recommended that the bailout include more regulation of financial firms, ...
Bailout prompts protest, support in Chicago
ABC7Chicago.com, USA - Oct 1, 2008
They're protesting on Chicago's LaSalle Street, but Chicago Jobs with Justice hopes their shouts are heard in Washington. The group wants Congress to invest ...
"Billionaires" back bailout
Talk Radio News Service, DC - Oct 1, 2008
As the bailout bill inches closer towards congressional approval, the workers rights organization Jobs with Justice met in 17 cities to voice their ...
• Senate expected to vote tonight on a financial bailout plan for ...
The Republican - MassLive.com, MA - Oct 1, 2008
... of Granby, Western Massachusetts co-ordinator of Jobs With Justice, left, and AnnMarie Russo of Northampton, stand with about a dozen other people in ...
Bailout smoke and mirrors; JwJ calls for protest today Chris Lowe
BlueOregon, OR - Oct 1, 2008
Jobs with Justice, the solidarity program of the AFL-CIO, has called for protests today against any bailout that protects big financial capital at the ...
Bailout: "No Lasting Positive Effect"
Institute for Public Accuracy (press release), DC - Oct 1, 2008
The group Jobs with Justice is organizing protests around the country today. Thindwa is executive director of Chicago Jobs with Justice; ...
Mass. activists rally at Fed, protest bank bailout
The Boston - Bay State Banner, MA - Oct 1, 2008
... the Service Employees International Union Local 615 and Jobs with Justice - protested the failure of Paulson and the Bush administration to include ...
Today at Talk Radio News
Talk Radio News Service, DC - Oct 1, 2008
The Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal's panel discussion on "Mr. Obama's Neighborhood," DC Jobs with Justice's ...
Lifton Rallies with Constituents in Ithaca
WENY-TV, NY - Oct 1, 2008
"When we talk about, 'for the people,' that means all the people and it means the common people," Richard Rose, of the Tompkins County Workers Center said. ...
Bailout Stalled. Activism Surging
The Nation., NY - Sep 29, 2008
This Wednesday, Oct 1st, Jobs with Justice is calling for a national day of action against the bailout. Look for the closest office of your Congressperson ...
Time for a Taxpayers Revolt
The Indypendent, NY - Sep 28, 2008
Jobs with Justice is calling for a national day of action against the bailout this Wednesday, Oct. 1. In conjunction with this, we are calling for actions ...
Study: Cost of health care burdensome for farmers
Columbia Daily Tribune, MO - Sep 27, 2008
The study was conducted with the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University, the Boston-based Access Project and Missouri Jobs with Justice. ...
Pressures on workers grow, and their income stagnates
Ithaca Journal, NY - Sep 27, 2008
At first glance the Tompkins County Workers' Center has little to do with the financial crisis gripping Wall Street, the United States and the world. ...
Survey recommends remedies for farmers' high insurance rates
Columbia Missourian, MO - Sep 26, 2008
Watson said these suggestions are general policy changes the MRCC and Jobs with Justice, a workers' advocacy group, recommend. ...
Barely getting by
Hattiesburg American, MS - Sep 26, 2008
"They are the new Americans," says Megan Macaraeg, director of Middle Tennessee Jobs for Justice. "These workers are what makes the world go 'round. ...
Local Group Protests Economic Bailout
93.1 WIBC Indianapolis, IN - Sep 25, 2008
By Reed Parker Members of Central indiana Jobs With Justice gathered outside the offices of Senators Lugar and Bayh to let them know they need to be ...
Group says Missourians paying more for health care
Missourinet.com, MO - Sep 24, 2008
... healthcare premiums that effects workers and employers," said Organizer Amy Smoucha with the group St. Louis Jobs with Justice, an issue advocacy group. ...
Major Progressive and Labor Leaders Demand Conditions For Drastic ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Sep 24, 2008
... Friends of the Earth --John Cavanagh, director, Institute for Policy Studies --Sarita Gupta, executive director, Jobs with Justice --Wade Henderson, ...
GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote
Huffington Post, NY - Sep 24, 2008
On September 12, about twenty-five members of ACORN and Jobs for Justice protested outside McCain's Farmington Hills headquarters to demand that McCain fire ...
Local unions step up political activity
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Sep 21, 2008
... to celebrate the 16th anniversary of Kentucky Jobs With Justice, a Louisville-based coalition of labor, human-rights activists and community organizers. ...
Religious Activists Rally to "Vote No on Question 1!"
Open Media Boston, Massachusetts - Sep 19, 2008
... to social justice, and was the primary organizing force around this rally, along with Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries and Jobs with Justice. ...
