by DC Jobs with Justice | Mar 7, 2017 |
We started the Solidarity Squad as an action team to give people a way to fight back against the federal government officials and corporations newly emboldened to attack our communities.
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 7, 2015 |
Building Benefits is a network of tenants working in downtown office buildings in DC. We support the efforts by janitors, security officers, and parking attendants in our buildings to win better pay, benefits, and working conditions by using our power as tenants. History In summer 2006, DC Jobs with Justice began working with tenants in downtown DC office buildings to support security officers in their buildings who were organizing a union to win better wages, benefits and working conditions. By December 2006, the DC Employment Justice Center and the Center for Law and Social Policy joined us, and the project’s goals broadened to include issues affecting all service workers in our buildings. News June 2007 | March & April...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 7, 2015 |
Facing What Divides Us: Building Unity Across Cultures For more than half a century, Washington, DC has served as a magnet for people fleeing economic and national oppression. The 1940s saw tens of thousands of African Americans migrate to D.C. in search of opportunities denied to them in the deep South. Their odyssey was part of the one of the largest internal migrations in history. Today, migrants continue to flow into the District in search of the same dreams that prompted African Americans to pull up stakes and come to the city. The difference is that this new generation of migrants is primarily from outside the U.S., often from countries whose economic and social structures have been turned upside down by U.S. intervention. As D.C.’s demographics shift, employers and city policy makers are using “divide and conquer” tactics to pit new immigrants against the children and grandchildren of those who migrated to the city in the 1940s in a struggle for limited resources. Language, ethnicity and nationality are being manipulated to divide communities, control labor and undermine workers’ rights. Who Are We? Building Black-Brown Unity is a collaborative education project between members of the Fair Budget Coalition and DC Jobs with Justice, designed to facilitate trainings and build unity between Black and Brown communities in the DC area. During a training in 2006, where a diverse group of coalition members and constituents grappled with stereotypes and tensions around economic competition, it became apparent that as organizations fighting for the rights of all working people, we have no choice than to face these tensions head on. The explosive debate around...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 7, 2015 |
The Grassroots Leadership Education Project is an initiative from DC Jobs with Justice designed to strengthen local organizing and build power among working people in the District of Columbia. List of Trainings for 2013 MONTH LOCATION TOPIC TRAINER March 21 Plaster’s Union 1517 Kenilworth Ave. NE Organizing 101 Roger Newell, Chair of DC Jobs with Justice May TBD Privatization Pedro Cruz, Transportation Campaign Coordinator July TBD How to build a Community Organization Steering Committee Member September TBD How to use social media for organizing New Organizing Institute November TBD Grassroots Fundraising Alexis Stumbolis, CISPES...
by DC Jobs with Justice | Apr 7, 2015 |
Interfaith Worker Justice is a diverse group of people of faith, both clergy and laity, who seek to make a difference in the economic well being of our communities in the Washington, DC area. We work to educate our faith communities about issues affecting working people and to support local struggles for economic...
