Today, the Supreme Court took aim at two of our bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution during Reconstruction: the Fourteenth Amendment, which defines U.S. citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment, which recognized that Black people had equivalent voting power to White people. In Trump v. Casa, Inc., the Court cleared the… Read More»
Reflection on Juneteenth and Black Worker Power in this moment, by Sherman Henry Today, we are witnessing some of the most significant rollbacks of our Constitutional freedoms in modern history. Workers are feeling the impacts of unprecedented attacks on the National Labor Relations Board, the erosion of collective bargaining for… Read More»
In a landmark moment for the labor movement, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has announced its return to the AFL-CIO after two decades of separation. This reunion is more than just a symbolic reconciliation — it’s a powerful affirmation of the growing collective strength of unions and workers across… Read More»
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»