We know how much you love to celebrate the victories and accomplishments of our movement at the annual Jobs With Justice Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award Celebration. Even in these unpredictable times, it’s so important to take a step back to simply celebrate and honor those of us who are leading the charge and paving new pathways for working people in… Read More»
A new report from the Jobs With Justice Education Fund and the AFL-CIO’s Working For America Institute examines how organizations in Buffalo are taking advantage of the employment opportunities in manufacturing to diversify the workforce. Through a series of focus groups and one-on-one interviews conducted in August and September 2018, 23… Read More»
Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program in partnership with Jobs With Justice invites applications for appointment as a Future of Labor Law Research Fellow. Future of Labor Law Research Fellows are law students or recent law graduates with a commitment to expanding access to collective bargaining for working people and to reforming labor… Read More»
House Republicans will lose their majority in a little more than three weeks and have decided to hold a hearing on whether to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It seems like a strange time for them to turn their attention to the federal minimum wage. After all,… Read More»
Ahead of a natural disaster like Hurricane Florence, politicians and safety officials tell the public to evacuate early and not wait until conditions get bad. We all know that you can lose your home and your belongings, but politicians never talk about the fact that during a disaster, many people… Read More»
On behalf of the Boards of Directors of Jobs With Justice and Jobs With Justice Education Fund, we’re excited to announce the decision to expand the leadership of the organization by selecting Erica Smiley to serve as a co-director along with Sarita Gupta. Income inequality, the extreme concentration of wealth… Read More»
Today marks Amazon’s Prime Day, an annual sales event invented by the e-commerce giant. Thanks to the retailer’s ubiquitous advertising and heavily-discounted prices, people now flock to Amazon.com to scoop up bargains for the day. But what makes those deals possible? Around the world, the women and men working inside… Read More»
No one should have to live in fear that when they go to work they may never come home, but ICE is ripping people out of their workplaces and homes and away from their communities and children, leaving hundreds more children separated from their families. Share this infographic now!
People working at a meat distribution warehouse in Brooklyn were tired of working for unsustainable pay without health insurance, paid holidays or overtime pay, so they decided to come together to improve their jobs. Their company immediately threatened and fired individuals for their support of a union, but they persisted in… Read More»
