Join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Philadelphia Council President Patrick J. Eiding this Friday at Thomas Paine Plaza in downtown Philadelphia to tell big Wall Street banks it's time to pay up for the jobs America needs.
See the event flier below for details!
Wall Street banks helped cause the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and it's time to hold them accountable. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, homes and retirement savings, while the biggest Wall Street banks gave their executives an eye-popping $145 billion in pay and bonuses last year.
The audacity of these bankers, the very same people we bailed out with hundreds of billions of dollars, is shocking. It's time to take it to the streets, and this Friday in Philadelphia we're going to do just that when we demand Wall Street:
# Stop refusing to pay your fair share to create the 11 million jobs America needs.
# Stop fighting financial reform.
# Start lending to your communities, small businesses and others starved for credit.
Join President Trumka, President Eiding and others in Philadelphia this Friday.
To Make Wall Street Pay, we support taxing Big Bank bonuses and transactions by big Wall Street speculators, the people who created the current economic crisis. A tax on financial speculation can discourage unhealthy financial trading while raising money to create jobs and reduce the deficit.
Wall Street must pay for a major jobs plan to extend unemployment insurance benefits, food assistance and health benefits.
Wall Street must pay to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
Wall Street must pay for aid to state and local governments to save critical services and jobs.
Wall Street must pay to increase funding for neglected communities to match people who need jobs with work that needs to be done.
Wall Street must use TARP money to get credit flowing to small businesses for job creation.
Join us this Friday and Make Wall Street Pay.
In solidarity,
Marc Laitin
AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator
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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.
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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
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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
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