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On Sunday, July 8th, Jobs with Justice, the DC Employment Justice Center, and the Restaurant Opportunities Center will co-host a Wage-Theft worker meeting. The goal of this meeting is to allow workers who have experienced wage-theft to share their stories and start talking about big-picture solutions to the problem. Wage-theft comes in many forms including: failure to pay final paycheck, paying less than the wage promised, failing to pay overtime, etc.

This coming Monday, July 9th will mark the one year anniversary of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan.

The organization We Choose Peace is having a rally on Sunday, July 8, 2012. They will gather in Lafayette Park at 4:00pm. For more information, please contact Carly Oboth at coboth@endgenocide.org or (202) 556-2115

If you are not able to come to the rally starting June 25th, you can tell the world that you choose peace by visiting www.wechoosepeace.org and tweeting about the campaign using the hashtag #choosepeace.

June 21st, an estimated 200 people attended DC Jobs with Justice 10th Annual I’ll Be There Awards. Representatives from the community came out to celebrate the contributions of Raymond C. Bell, pastor and founder, Living Faith Baptist Church, Carrie Biggs-Adams, CWA-NABET, The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and The Working Poor, and the United Group of Occupy DC. Attendees were entertained by The Soulcial Justice dancers and the sounds of Ruta Sieta.

June 22nd was the one year anniversary of Verizon workers negotiating for a fair contract from communications giant Verizon. CWA Locals in the DC area marked the day with creative actions. Members of CWA Local 2336 held huge signs on major transportation routes. Members of CWA Local 2108 had a mock funeral, in mou
ing of Verizon employees and customers. In the afte
oon the CWA Locals joined forces with ROC-DC . ROC has a campaign against Darden restaurants.

Day laborers and other low income workers across the construction, cleaning, and restaurant industries are disproportionately the victims of wage theft. While there are agencies dedicated to this issue, workers in the informal sector are often unable to gather the necessary contact information that is required to begin a claim process.

Today, La Unión de Trabajadores in a new partnership with the MPD have devised a solution to this perennial Catch-22 by developing a new procedure allowing MPD officers to investigate and document wage theft cases.

Text of the Procedure after the jump:r

Right now, Verizon’s subsidiary, Verizon Wireless, is planning a sweetheart deal with big cable companies that could cost jobs, raise prices and kill off further expansion of the FiOS network.

This deal – to package up Verizon Wireless together with cable company phone, TV, and home inte
et service – would gut competition in the industry and remove the incentive for Verizon executives to keep investing in building out the high-speed FiOS network.

It would lead to the loss of thousands of our jobs.
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Please join us as we celebrate the career of DC JWJ Executive Board member Dave Richardson! Dave has retired from his position of Senior Economist after more than 20 years of service at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

When: July 6, 2012
Where: Hunan Dynasty
215 Pennsylvania Ave SE,
Washington, DC 20003-1155
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Suggested donation: $30 a person.

This is a fundraiser for DC Jobs with Justice.

For more information contact Lillian at (202)543-1542 or Lillian@dcjwj.org

When: June 14th, 2012
Where: The steps of the Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania, Ave NW. WDC
Time: 10am to 12pm
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