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By jwjnational, on July 7th, 2011
 Over the years Jobs with Justice (JwJ) has emerged as the leading national network bringing together diverse allies to win the fight to protect the rights of workers. The Jobs with Justice’s movement building model continues to thrive because we engage in solidarity through real action. The more people we bring to our Jobs with Justice table to work in solidarity, the more power we build and the bigger our victories are.
One of the most important ways JwJ has been able to strengthen our network of partners has been through our National Conference. This year’s conference August 5-7 in Washington, DC will bring together hundreds of labor, community, student, and faith leaders and activists from across the country and beyond to learn, strategize, celebrate, and renew their commitment to worker justice.
Please give today to help bring low income, striking worker, and student participants to the Jobs with Justice national conference.
While many of our partners would like to send representatives to the 2011 National Conference, financial limitations hinder their ability to be a part of this exciting and memorable event. A generous contribution from
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By Sarita Gupta, on December 30th, 2010
Earlier this month, Congress passed a deal to re-extend unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed for more than a year. Finally, a small break for working families! With money from unemployment insurance, millions of non-working Americans will be able to heat their homes, pay their bills, and buy food. It’s not much, but it’s everything.
Throughout 2010, JwJ has been educating communities on how unemployment insurance is a vital stop-gap measure during the worst jobs deficit in recent history. It’s been an ongoing fight. Through organizing hundreds of public actions, delegations to elected officials, community forums, and online action alerts, we helped working communities save their lifeline multiple times.
At least for now. Please make a tax-deductible donation today to help us keep fighting for the unemployed.
The extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed didn’t come without a big favor for big business. What was exchanged in return for this small token for working families? Billions of dollars in tax breaks for the country’s wealthiest–money that could be used to create jobs or cover unemployment insurance for the jobless. Instead, it will sit in someone’s growing bank account, while workers continue to struggle.
A sustainable economy can’t
Continue reading What the new Congress means for working families
By Sarita Gupta, on December 27th, 2010
Over the last year, we’ve seen corporations exert their influence to hold up legislation at the federal level. Health care reform, job creation, the DREAM Act and so much more has been stalled, weakened, and even defeated by corporate interests and their lobbying.
Now corporations are turning their attention to state legislatures to expand their attacks on working families. Can you help us defeat corporate-sponsored laws aimed at rolling back workers’ rights? Please make a tax-deductible donation today.
Starting in January 2011, we are expecting an array of serious attacks on workers’ rights to hit state legislatures, including Right to Work for Less laws, paycheck deception, anti-prevailing wage bills, and continued attacks on the public sector. Corporations want to use the failing economy as an excuse to reverse every worker protection put in place over the last century.
We won’t let that happen. Jobs with Justice is well-positioned to partner with labor, faith, students and community groups in these defensive battles, bringing the voices of workers, and prominent community leaders to the forefront of these battles. We have a proven track record of defeating corporate attacks on workers. Missouri Jobs with Justice recently organized to defeat corporate efforts to
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By Sarita Gupta, on December 21st, 2010
Yesterday we announced that Senator Mitch “puppet of the rich” McConnell was elected our 2010 Scrooge of the Year. McConnell led a small minority in the Senate to block many laws that would have helped working families this year: health care reform, job creation, the DREAM Act, health care for 9/11 responders, and so much more. McConnell could have shown great leadership to support people in need at a time when so many are struggling, but this Scrooge doesn’t care about governing or making this country a better place to live. McConnell’s goal is to do whatever is necessary to hoard power for himself, his party, and his wealthy, powerful friends. But Jobs with Justice is building power every day to fight the corporate agenda.
Please m ake a donation to the Jobs with Justice Education Fund today to help us keep fighting corporate agenda in 2011.
You can give on our secure online donation website or give securely through Causes on Facebook.
In 2010, while McConnell was threatening to filibuster legislation that would benefit working families, Jobs with Justice was educating members about
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By Rev. Jim Sessions, on December 14th, 2009
 Fran Ansley and I have been involved with the JwJ network since 1995 when our local Central Labor Council invited us to help organize our local East Tennessee JwJ. For the past several years, we have made a monthly automatic contribution to both the Jobs with Justice Education Fund (national JwJ) and to our local JwJ coalition, JwJ of East Tennessee.
Early on, we got to witness the power and significance of union/community solidarity in the Mineworkers’ strike against Pittston Coal Company in the hollows and on the ridges of Southern Appalachia. We saw what the union and its members meant to the community and what the community, its churches and civic organizations brought to the struggle for labor justice and workers’ rights. To win that fight, it took national and even international support, and I think most fundamentally, the shoulder-to-shoulder daily support of neighbors, pastors, and local community organizations. Across the board Solidarity of material support and mutual reinforcement was necessary to win. We have seen those lessons multiplied in years since.
That is why Fran and I give regularly scheduled contributions
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