There is a significant need for Black leadership at all levels of movement work. ABSI seeks to develop experienced and well-trained Black Strategists through the ABSI Movement Fellowship Program. This collaborative project led by Jobs With Justice, will offer a cohort of Black worker-leaders direct experience developing and implementing strategies… Read More»
Jobs With Justice ended the year with our annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Ceremony at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. We were truly honored to celebrate an amazing slate of change-makers including Kendrick Sampson and Tia Oso of BLD PWR for innovative storytelling and… Read More»
Jobs With Justice welcomed two powerhouses onto our national team in early 2023, Denise Diaz as Deputy Director for Institutional Advancement and Candace Johnson as Deputy Director for Organizational Strength. Together, Denise and Candace bring decades of organizing and leadership experience to Jobs With Justice. Denise has led strategic organizing… Read More»
Starbucks Workers United continued their historic organizing drive at Starbucks in 2023, and Jobs With Justice coalitions in Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, East Tennessee, Missouri, Long Island, Massachusetts, Central Florida, and Washington, D.C. mobilized around many newly unionized stores. Despite a major CEO transition, a nationally televised hearing in the Senate… Read More»
For over two years, Jobs With Justice has been proud to be part of the No Tech For Apartheid campaign, leveraging worker power to push corporations to be more transparent, accountable, and ethical – especially when it comes to potentially profiting off of conflict and oppression. As the conflict in… Read More»
In partnership with our Atlanta University Consortium and the Institute for Policy Studies, Jobs With Justice launched the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI) in the fall of 2020. We began with a vision to create a cohort of Black economic justice and labor-focused strategists committed to leading, developing, and advancing… Read More»
2023 began with a major Department of Homeland Security announcement and victory. Noncitizen workers who are victims of – or witnesses to – labor rights violations can access a streamlined and expedited deferred action request process for the first time. DHS has previously recognized that immigration should not be a… Read More»
The passing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act (CHIPS) has ignited a massive New Deal-style era investment in the United States that will seed nearly more than a trillion dollars in infrastructure and renewable energy projects in the… Read More»
In many ways, the power of the labor movement was put on full display in 2023. An intersection of workers – writers and actors to autoworkers and nurses – demanded a fair return on the profits they create, the freedom to organize in the workplace, and a voice in the… Read More»