JwJ coalitions making news September 9 – October 14, 2009. More media coverage of JwJ is available here.
Two articles this month talked about JwJ’s role in shaping a progressive labor movement: How Can Labor Get Stronger in the Recession? and Unions Must Move Left, They Have No Alternative.
JwJ activists put pressure on their elected officials to pass health care reform in Whatcom County, WA, Portland, Eugene, Providence, Western Massachusetts, Cleveland, Indiana, and elsewhere throughout the country.
The Vermont Workers Center/JwJ held several town hall meetings in conjunction with their “Healthcare is a Human Right” campaign to pass statewide health care reform.
- Single-payer health care: dead in Washington, but alive in the states | csmonitor.com
- Meeting airs frustration at slow health reforms: Rutland Herald Online
- Care for all, but how? | Bennington Banner
- Forums push single-payer health plan | Vermont Public Radio
- Time to walk the talk | Times Argus Online
- Inherent compassion | Rutland Herald Online
National Workers’ Rights Board members released a new report in St. Louis and Buffalo on safety issues at the American Red Cross.
A new Jobs with Justice chapter is forming in the Triad/Greensboro area of North Carolina.
Rhode Island JwJ has been working with community group Fuerza Laboral to pursue employers who don’t pay their workers.
After a two year struggle, guards at the Philadelphia Museum of Art voted to form an independent union.
JwJ coalitions in more than 20 cities held events during our Economic Recovery Week of Action:
- Unions, Progressives Launching New Drives for Wall Street Reform This Week | Working In These Times
- Banks Take Over the G20, and Their Own Bailout | The Progressive
- Jobs with Justice, Nomi Prins Put Wall Street on Trial | Working In These Times
- Ordinance to protect jobs of hotel workers clears hurdle in Providence | The Providence Journal
- Boston union workers rally over layoffs | BostonHerald.com
- Foreclosure protest draws dozens | C & G News, Michigan
- N.Y. subsidy programs targeted on anniversary of bank bailout
