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Workers–especially Black and brown workers–across the South are exercising their freedom to organize and build a real democracy–from the ballot box to the factory floor. As anti-democratic forces gather in state capitols and C-suites looking to undermine our fundamental freedoms, as part of the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative, Jobs With… Read More»
As search and rescue missions continue throughout the southeast in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, testimonies have begun to surface of workers forced to weather the hurricane on the clock in rising flood waters and downed power lines. “Climate disasters are no longer just ‘once-in-a-generation’ events,” said Erica Smiley, Jobs… Read More»
Social and economic justice movements have collectively failed to expand opportunities for Black thought leaders and strategists. In response to this inequity, Jobs With Justice launched the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI) in 2020. Our unwavering commitment is to create cohorts of Black economic justice and labor-focused strategists who are… Read More»
On Friday, August 19, Tennessee workers won their union in a resounding watershed victory. After two heartbreaking union elections at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant in 2014 and 2019, the votes have been tallied for a third, worker-led campaign to unionize the Volkswagen plant with the United Auto Workers. Workers overwhelmingly… Read More»
Jobs With Justice is thrilled that President Biden has appointed former SEIU General Counsel and Jobs With Justice board member Nicole Berner to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one step below the Supreme Court. President Biden nominated Judge Berner last year, and the Senate confirmed her… Read More»
Jobs With Justice lost another giant this week. On March 15, 2024, long-time network leader Carl Lipscombe passed away in Brooklyn, New York. Carl first came to the JWJ network from Brooklyn College via the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP). He joined the national Jobs With Justice staff in 2003… Read More»
Recent Supreme Court justices’ rulings – from affirmative action to reproductive rights – are part of a long, far-right checklist meant to destroy democracy. And it’s not just politicians at the helm of this strategy. During the State of the Union last week, President Biden asked the Supreme Court justices… Read More»
Background: Attacks on joint-employer standards are attacks on low-wage workers and their ability to organize. Wealthy CEOs, their lobbyists, and politicians on the right have attacked joint-employer standards for decades. During the 1980s, a conservative National Labor Relations Board whittled the definition of joint-employer status to benefit corporations and dissolve… Read More»