Be sure to read this great article by Sarah Jaffe
In his press conference Tuesday night, Barack Obama took pains to emphasize that comprehensive solutions were needed to the economic crisis, and that working families were suffering and needed help to create real wealth.
Congress has before it a bill that would help lessen the inequality in America and support those working families by helping workers organize into unions. That bill is the Employee Free Choice Act, H.R. 1409, introduced on March 10 by George Miller of California, with a who’s who of congresspeople as cosponsors...
The fight isn’t over. Harry Reid noted that other Republicans might be open to working with the bill, and Keystone Progress is already organizing more pressure on Specter to get him to change his mind.
After all, as Rodriguez says, “Wealth is what really should define the middle class, and wealth is stability, and that’s power. We have negative wealth in this country.”
A stronger union movement would help create that stability and power for the working class, and now is not the time to give up or put off the fight.
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Labor Notes
Philadelphia Jobs With Justice is a coalition of labor unions, community organizations, religious and student constituency groups building a movement for worker's rights and social economic justice on the principles of solidarity, reciprocity, militancy and direct action. Philadelphia Jobs With Justice is dedicated to winning victories that matter for working people.
| WILLIAM WAY CENTER, 1315 SPRUCE STREET, SUITE 331, PHILADELPHIA, PA |
| Phone: 215-670-5855 |
We are a community group that fights for living wages, top-notch benefits, and respect on the job for people in our Philadelphia neighborhoods. We believe in solidarity and reciprocity, helping each other in our struggles so we all win.
Contact:
(215) 670-5855
director@phillyjwj.org
1315 Spruce Street, Suite 331
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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The JwJ Pledge
During the next year, I will be there at least five times for someone else's fight, as well as my own. If enough of us are there, we'll all start winning.
STAND UP for our rights as working people to a decent standard of living.
SUPPORT the right of all workers to organize and bargain collectively.
FIGHT for secure family-wage jobs in the face of corporate attacks on working people and our communities.
ORGANIZE the unorganized to take aggressive action to secure a better economic future for all of us.
MOBILIZE those already organized to join the fight for jobs with justice.
STAND UP for our rights as working people to a decent standard of living.
SUPPORT the right of all workers to organize and bargain collectively.
FIGHT for secure family-wage jobs in the face of corporate attacks on working people and our communities.
ORGANIZE the unorganized to take aggressive action to secure a better economic future for all of us.
MOBILIZE those already organized to join the fight for jobs with justice.
Donate!
Your generous donation will go directly to supporting the work and activities of Jobs with Justice, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, and your donation is tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
Please consider becoming a sustaining member of JwJ with a regular monthly contribution.
Mail your check to:
"Jobs with Justice"
1315 Spruce St., #331
Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Or make a secure donation online by clicking here
Please consider becoming a sustaining member of JwJ with a regular monthly contribution.
Mail your check to:
"Jobs with Justice"
1315 Spruce St., #331
Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Or make a secure donation online by clicking here
Volunteer
Jobs With Justice is looking for Volunteers! Interested in workers' rights? Interested in fighting for social justice work? We need volunteers to help fight for the rights of workers in Philadelphia, as part of a broader social justice struggle. We need people to help distribute handbills, with data entry, writing articles and letters, mailings, photocopying, and much more.
If you want to engage with Jobs with Justice and be part of the solution, please be in touch!
Contact:
director@phillyjwj.org
If you want to engage with Jobs with Justice and be part of the solution, please be in touch!
Contact:
director@phillyjwj.org
Student Labor Action Project
As Philadelphia students and youth we commit ourselves to the struggles of working class people in this city and to the fight against all forms of oppression including racism, sexism, and homophobia. We stand for equality, the rights of workers, justice, and democracy. We are against the corporatization of education and aim to make our universities fully accountable to the communities they were built to serve. We believe that direct action wins working class families better working conditions, affordable health care, paid sick days. SLAP provides dedicated student leaders with the skills and tools necessary to affect meaningful change for workers on our campuses and in our communities through trainings, events, and actions.
Contact:
Contact:
Paul Prescod
piknrol@aol.com
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