by DC Jobs with Justice | Oct 20, 2009 | Projects
While the scope and length of the current economic crisis is still unclear—unemployment rates are at a record high, the number of day laborers looking for work at Home Depot is growing and a quarter of DC residents are living below the poverty line– what is...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Oct 6, 2009 | Projects, Student Labor Outreach Project
More than 200 highschool students wearing all black walked out of classes Monday to protest the layoff of 388 school employees last week. Chanting “No counselors, no college!” students met at McKinley Technology High School and marched towards schools...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Oct 3, 2009 | Interfaith Worker Justice, Projects
Day laborers in DC scored another big victory on October 2nd: recovering over $10,000 in stolen wages for eight workers. Several members of the Union de Trabajadores de Washington, DC, a day laborer association, had been doing work on a DC public school building over...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Sep 30, 2009 | Projects
One year after the government bailed out Wall Street, activists plan to protest a meeting of the Financial Services Roundtable Thursday in Washington. DC Jobs with Justice, unions and consumer protection groups organized a demonstration outside the meeting of the...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Sep 24, 2009 | Projects
Calling Mayor Adrian Fenty a “rogue Mayor,†more than a hundred District workers, labor activists and community allies gathered outside the DC City Council September 22nd to demand an end to Fenty’s anti-worker and anti-family behavior. As DC Councilmembers...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Sep 15, 2009 | Projects
DC cabbies will join child- and healthcare workers, parents and community members on September 22nd for a rally at the DC District Building. The Take Back DC rally, which coincides with the Council’s first legislative session, is part of a broader campaign to...
