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Jenn D’Agostino from Coalition for Economic Justice in Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested as part massive nonviolent direct action at the base of the Capitol.

October is heating up with local and national escalations demanding change to our broken immigration system. Our push for immigration reform is urgent as the deportation crisis continues to hurt workers and their families Every day Congress stalls on immigration reform, cases of worker abuse are piling up and workers… Read More»

Portland Jobs with Justice and VOZ supporters enjoy salsa lessons together

If we are serious about building working-class power, we must be serious about the business of raising money. Jobs With Justice has long believed and demonstrated that having a good time together as we struggle to make our values real in the world is essential to building a lasting movement. Here… Read More»

JWJ members protest in support of OUR Walmart members

For the past few years, Walmart’s plans to expand into big cities like New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., have made them the site of high-profile contests between the biggest corporation in the world and communities concerned over poverty wages. With just under 40,000 residents, Holyoke, Massachusetts, is… Read More»

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Jamaican guestworkers fighting against labor abuse won a breakthrough pledge from federal immigration authorities not to collude with their employer in deporting them. These guestworkers came to Florida to clean condos this summer and were alarmed at what they experienced — extremely unsafe living conditions and many reported working without… Read More»

Screenshot of scam Sallie Mae Instagram account

In the past few days, a Sallie Mae instagram was created that said if you were one of the first 150,000 people to follow them they’d forgive your student debt. Unfortunately, not today. This is a fake account. It’s important that you do not share any personal information with them… Read More»

Today, California Governor Jerry Brown was joined by a group of domestic workers as he signed the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in his office. It’s worth celebrating all of the workers and supporters who made this incredible victory possible. The bill is the result of a seven-year organizing… Read More»

So far, the Department of Education is still doing business with the student loan giant Sallie Mae, even though Sallie Mae is in violation of its contract. And we're not the only ones demanding answers... Read more: http://huff.to/1gIWWhj

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Our mission at Jobs with Justice is to build a strong, progressive labor movement that works in coalition with community, faith, and student organizations to build a broader global movement for economic and social justice. Our theory of change rests in the belief that in order to secure victories and… Read More»

Today, the Department of Labor announced new regulations to extend basic labor protections to millions of in-home care workers, entitling care workers to minimum wage and overtime protections and ending 75 years of unfair exclusion from the Fair Labor Standards Act. This is an important step toward stabilizing one of… Read More»

Last Thursday, the California State Senate passed the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, AB 241! This vote gets California one step closer to extending equal labor rights to domestic workers. If signed by the Governor, AB 241 would provide all domestic workers who care for California’s homes and families with… Read More»