Today marks Amazon’s Prime Day, an annual sales event invented by the e-commerce giant. Thanks to the retailer’s ubiquitous advertising and heavily-discounted prices, people now flock to Amazon.com to scoop up bargains for the day. But what makes those deals possible? Around the world, the women and men working inside… Read More»
No one should have to live in fear that when they go to work they may never come home, but ICE is ripping people out of their workplaces and homes and away from their communities and children, leaving hundreds more children separated from their families. Share this infographic now!
People working at a meat distribution warehouse in Brooklyn were tired of working for unsustainable pay without health insurance, paid holidays or overtime pay, so they decided to come together to improve their jobs. Their company immediately threatened and fired individuals for their support of a union, but they persisted in… Read More»
Pictured from L to R: Secretary-Treasurer Jessie Case, AFT-WV President Christine Campbell, National Domestic Workers Alliance Lead Organizer Jacklyn Izsraael, Union Communication Services at the Cornell Worker Institute Director Dania Rajendra, IUPAT National Strategic Organizer Rosa Lozano When a conference keynote speaker says “Our mission is to be the most radical city on the… Read More»
On Wednesday night, Jobs With Justice Education Fund applauded visionary leaders in the workers’ rights movement at the 14th annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration. The evening commenced with an exciting silent auction and bubbling reception, filled with labor, social justice, and economic justice movement leaders, activists, advocates and… Read More»
Jobs With Justice strongly condemns House Speaker Paul Ryan and other members of the House leadership for refusing to allow a vote on a clean Dream Act. In September 2017 Donald Trump unilaterally halted protections President Obama put in place in for many Dreamers by ending the Deferred Action for… Read More»
On Tuesday, June 6, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Border Patrol raided two Corso’s Flower & Garden Center locations in Ohio. Despite DHS officials reporting that the raid was conducted to investigate the employer, agents detained more than 100 employees in a militarized operation, and Corso’s… Read More»
A new report, released by Jobs With Justice Education Fund and the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First, identifies the large corporations that have been most involved in wage and hour collective action lawsuits. Grand Theft Paycheck: The Large Corporations Shortchanging Their Workers’ Wages finds wage theft is pervasive… Read More»
Hundreds of business, labor union, and government representatives from International Labour Organization member countries are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for the annual International Labour Conference in June. The goal of the U.N. agency’s forum this year is to create a global standard to address gender-based violence in the workplace. To… Read More»