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Workers’ Rights Outreach Blitz Resources
You can find all of our resources we're sharing gearing up for the July 1 minimum wage increase. Check out the links: Just Pay Coalition Resource Guide What to do if Immigration comes to your Workplace DC Paid...
Summer Sustainer Drive 2019
Sustaining donors are key to the success of DC Jobs With Justice. Your support of any size allows DC Jobs With Justice to be a nimble, multi-issue organization that can respond quickly to changes that drastically affect workers and residents in the District of...
Stop the Bleeding: don’t cut UMC
JUST ADDED: There's A LOT you can do to fight with us to restore funding to United Medical Center between now and May 28. Take action now! Sign the Petition and share it with your friends: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/restore-funding-for-united RSVP for...
Raise your voice for health justice
The DC Council is currently considering a budget that slashes needed funds to operate United Medical Center and forces the hospital to close by 2022. The same bill strips even basic worker...
We’re hiring!
Position Description: DC JWJ Organizer One Year, Full Time Download the Position Description. Overview: DC Jobs With Justice (DC JWJ) is a coalition of labor unions, community organizations, faith institutions, and student organizations dedicated to protecting and...
We’re moving!
We are so excited to share with you that we are moving our office to Luther Place. Luther Place Church is an historic social justice church, including a commitment to serve our homeless neighbors, and end homelessness in Washington, DC. We are truly pleased to be...
Tenant Shutdown Resource
Tenants across the DC region are struggling to make ends meet during the longest shutdown in history. For that reason, DC Jobs With Justice partnered with housing providers and labor unions to provide a letter that helps landlords understand their options, and...
Shutdown the Shutdown
DC Jobs With Justice is proud to partner with our allies in the international labor community, local unions and the DC community to demand that Senate Republicans take action and reopen the government. We need you to join us at the Hart Senate Office Building 120...
Shutdown Solidarity: volunteer to support fellow workers
DC Jobs With Justice recognizes that thousands of workers in the District are stuck without work while the Trump shutdown continues to stretch on. In addition to missing work, many fear how lost income or benefits will impact basic survival needs. DC JWJ would like to...
This #GivingTuesday Support SOLIDARITY
Every day, DC Jobs With Justice is putting people over profit: in our neighborhoods, in our workplaces, and across the District of Columbia. We are proud to be in solidarity with you as we all work to build a more just world. For #GivingTuesday, we are asking you to...
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Letter in Support of Worker Safety Bill
Earlier today DC JWJ alongside a coalition of unions, worker justice organizations, and community organizations urged the council to pass the Protecting Businesses and Workers from Covid-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020. We the undersigned unions, worker...
JULY 1: Webinar on New Minimum Wage and Paid Family Leave
This Wednesday, DC will finally get $15 an hour AND paid family leave. Amidst an ongoing pandemic it is crucial that all workers know their rights on the job. Join DC Jobs with Justice along with Attorney General Karl Racine and experts from the Washington Lawyers...
DC is mobilizing for justice
Juneteenth (June 19th) is a day that honors Black freedom and Black resistance, and centers Black people’s unique contribution to the struggle for justice in the U.S. This Juneteenth is a rare moment for our communities to proclaim in one voice that Black Lives...