by DC Jobs with Justice | Dec 18, 2008 | Projects
It’s official! After a long struggle workers at Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, NC finally won union recognition. Tar Heel’s 5,500 Smithfield workers paid a high cost for a voice on the job. They faced poverty wages, brutal working conditions, crippling...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Dec 18, 2008 | Projects
The DC Workers’ Union (Union de Trabajadores de Washington DC) celebrated its annual end of the year party last Thursday at Foundry United Methodist Church. Over 80 day laborers, volunteers and DC JwJ allies came together to break bread, share culture and music,...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Dec 9, 2008 | Projects
On Friday December 5th, the workers of Republic Windows and Doors, members of UE Local 1110, occupied their factory, which was due to close at 10:00 AM. Republic Windows and Doors was forced to close after Bank of America, just weeks after taking $25 Billion in...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Dec 3, 2008 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
Students from American, Georgetown, and UMD traveled down to Ft. Benning in Georgia to attend the annual rally to close the SOA-WHINSEC. Every year, groups from around the country arrive in Georgia to protest the US government’s continued support of the SOA –...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Nov 25, 2008 | Projects
Catastrophe, intimidation, terror. These were common words used to describe DC Mayor Adrian Fenty’s two years in office by over a dozen speakers at Thursday’s Workers’ Rights Board (WRB) hearing. The hearing – which took place at the John A....
