February 28, 2018
Together we marched, chanted, and stood up for decent pay, affordable health care, quality schools, vibrant communities, as well as an end to a rigged system and economy.
Tags: AFSCME, collective bargaining, ItsAboutFreedom, Janus, public employees, Public Sector, unions, UnrigTheSystem, Working People's Day of Action
June 16, 2017
On Tuesday night, labor rights leaders, advocates, and allies came together at Jobs With Justice Education Fund’s 13th annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration. This event honors outstanding leaders who have upheld Eleanor Roosevelt’s belief that workers’ rights are human rights. Each of the three remarkable recipients, Paul… Read More»
Tags: Adhikaar, AFSCME, American Postal Workers Union, APWU, Awards Celebration, Discount Foundation Legacy Award, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration, Elissa McBride, Jobs With Justice, Luna Ranjit, Mark Dimondstein, Paul Booth, Sarita Gupta, Stop Staples campaign
April 2, 2015
A new report released by researchers at Rutgers University Center for Women and Work breaks new ground in studying the growing field of care work by asking home-care consumers to define “quality” care and describe how care-worker training affects the quality of care they receive. Through interviews with both care… Read More»
Tags: $15 an hour, AFSCME, Building Bridges, consumers, home-care, home-care workers, job training, Rutgers University, Rutgers University Center for Women and Work, training
January 22, 2014
Public employees and their unions are frequent scapegoats when elected officials seek to score political points or contract out government services. But despite what you may have read, there are many examples of productive labor-management relations in the public sector. A new report released by the Jobs With Justice Education… Read More»
Tags: AFL-CIO Metal Trades Council, AFSCME, AFT, CWA, SEIU