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Introducing our 2015 Workers’ Rights Board
On July 14, we are bringing back the DC Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board to discuss the need for Just Hours! The Workers’ Rights Board is a board composed of community and religious leaders, prominent members of the community, and public officials who support...
Foro comunitario: La lucha por horarios justos
Todos merecen un pago digno, horarios estables, y horas suficientes para que puedan llegar a fin de mes. Pero demasiados trabajadores en restaurantes, en tiendas al menudeo, y en la limpieza no reciben las horas que necesitan con bastante aviso previo. Ademas,...
RSVP to our Report Release on Hours and Scheduling
Please join us for a briefing and release of our groundbreaking report on hours and work schedules in the DC service sector. This event will be co-hosted by DC Fiscal Policy Institute and Georgetown University Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor....
10 Days Until DC Jobs With Justice Day
Today marks the 10 day countdown to our first-ever DC Jobs With Justice Day! I’ve been with DC JWJ for three years, and that’s been long enough to see the broad and indispensable role we play in the struggle for a more just Washington, DC. Our coalition has a duty...
Finding My Voice: Yanely Perez on a Summer with DC Jobs with Justice
Reposted from Georgetown Kalmanovitz Initiative Blog My time with the Kalmanovitz Initiative Summer Organizing internship not only let me grow as a person but also use that growth to make deeper connections with DC workers and organizers. I am humbled to have worked...
Working Full-Time But Left Behind in DC’s Prosperity
Melinda Gaino has a full-time job in DC, but she struggles to make it. She earns $9.90 an hour as a cashier at Walmart on H Street, NW, bringing home about $20,000 a year. That is too little to support the 45-year old mother and her four children in their SE...
Another Wings Enterprises Worker Goes on Strike
Yesterday, another worker at Wings Enterprises went on strike to demand an end to racist discrimination and harassment, inadequate training, and unsafe working conditions. Why is a company with Wings's long track record of wage theft, discrimination, and safety...
Income Inequality Is at a 35-year High in the District
A new report from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute confirmed what we've been hearing from workers: wages in low-wage jobs are stagnating, unemployment is lasting even longer, and lots of workers who want to work full-time can only find part-time jobs. Already this year,...
Walmart Strikers Cap Week of Action with Black Friday march
Last week was a week of "firsts" for Respect DC and Walmart associates in the District. Throughout the week, we witnessed the first-ever Black Friday for Walmart in Washington, DC, the first sit-down strike in Walmart history, the first Walmart worker strike in the DC...
Fired Workers at Tito Contractors Vindicated at the NLRB
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Less than a week after winning their case at the NLRB, Tito workers won their election to bring a union to Tito Contractors after more than a year of organizing. A group of men and women in Washington, D.C., who have been organizing to expose abuse...
EVENTS
Cash assistance is critical to our neighbors
URGENT ACTION: EMAIL AND CALL TODAY Email Mayor Bowser and Chairman Mendelson https://actionnetwork.org/letters/support-excluded-workers-cash-assistance-desperately-needed [button...
Urgent Need: Cash Assistance for Excluded Workers
We urge Mayor Bowser and DC Council need to provide cash assistance to DC residents who cannot work, access unemployment benefits, and/or receive federal stimulus assistance. We call this group “excluded workers.” DC government should use the programs and...
Federal and Local Sick Leave Webinar
Every worker in DC has a right to paid sick days. Starting in April these rights will be expanded by new federal paid sick days legislation. Join us next Tuesday for a webinar on the ins and outs of paid sick days in the District and the new federal legislation....