NEWS

Come out and show your support for this bill and your community at the hearing before the City Council! In 2001 the Lovejoy School at 12th and D St. NE was sold to build 54 luxury apartments and the developer made $24 million on this project.
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Join us to demand that Verizon take responsability for labor abuses of workers digging Verizon-FiOS tranches.

When: Tuesday, June 24th @ 12PM.
What: Picket!
Where: Verizon Headquarters on 2055 L St NW. Washington, DC.
Why: As Verizon creates its network to provide Maryland residents with high-speed services, low wage workers ARE NOT GETTING PAID! This practice must stop!

Join us Tuesday to demand that Verizon take accountability and ensure proper payment of all its workers!
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DC Jobs with Justice is proud to announce the recipients of the 2008 “I’ll Be There” Awards. These awards, given annually since 2003, honor individuals and organizations for exceptional solidarity.

This year’s awardees are:

*Foundry United Methodist Church, for their commitment to supporting day labor organizing and ongoing solidarity with union struggles;
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Since January DC Jobs with Justice has been actively supporting the development of the Union de Trabajadores, a worker-led organization of day laborers in DC, to build unity, advocate for their rights, and create amicable relationships with the community in which they work. This is the story of one member of the Union de Trabajadores, Jorge Ortiz.
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In late 2006, over 500 Indian workers mortgaged their futures for an American dream, paying $20,000 apiece for false promises of green cards from US and Indian recruiters. Instead they received guestworker visa and arrived to an American nightmare at Gulf Coast marine construction company Signal Inte
ational. Signal forced them to live 24 men to a trailer and charged them $1,050 a month for it.
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This week Verizon DC will hope to offset increasing scrutiny from DC city officials and community groups for its poor service quality record in the District through the approval of a Price Cap Settlement, negotiated between the company and the city.

Thursday night 2 vans filled with DC Jobs with Justice members and leaders embarked on an ove
ight road trip to Providence, Rhode Island where more than 1000 labor, community, student, and religious activists from across the United States and the world gathered for the annual Jobs with Justice conference which took place May 2-4.
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