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What is Jobs with Justice? The Capital District Labor Religion Coalition is an affiliate of the national organization Jobs with Justice. Founded in 1987, the mission of Jobs with Justice is to improve working people's standard of living, to fight for job security, and to protect workers' right to organize. Jobs with Justice believes that in order to be successful, workers' rights struggles have to be part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. To that end, Jobs with Justice has created a network of local coalitions that connect labor, faith-based, community, and student organizations to work together on workplace and community social justice campaigns. Jobs with Justice coalitions now exist in over 40 cities in 29 states in all regions of the country, made up of both member organizations and thousands of individual activists who sign the Jobs with Justice pledge to be there five times a year for someone else's struggle as well as their own. To community activists Jobs with Justice says: we cannot rebuild a movement for social justice in this country without a strong trade union movement-and the best guarantee of a living wage, of healthcare, of rights in the workplace is a union contract. To friends in the union movement Jobs with Justice says: labor cannot win it alone. We must make our struggles for workers rights into broad community justice struggles, and we must be for all workers, not just our own members. They have families and faith communities and neighborhoods. When we can pull this all together, we build more power and tap into something very deep. The four current priority programs for the Jobs with
Justice network are:
Last Updated:09/15/2004 |