Jobs With Justice records

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Identifier: 6369

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Scope and Contents

The Jobs With Justice records, 1980-2019, document the organization at the national and local levels and includes records of campaigns, newsletters, finances, and documentation of major projects including the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), American Rights at Work (ARAW), and Workers Rights Boards (WRB). The collection also includes documentation of various events including annual JWJ member meetings, board meetings, the annual National Day of Action, and the annual SLAP Student Labor Day of Action and Week of Action. Other highlights of the collection include records of national campaigns in Series I, which includes material on health care reform and on campaigns against the FTAA, Verizon, and Wal-Mart, as well as extensive records of regional coalitions arranged by region and state in Series II.

Dates

1980 - 2019

Creator

Jobs with Justice (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

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Accrual from May 2022 includes SSNs and tax information. Materials from accrual interfiled into collection.

Biographical / Historical

Jobs With Justice (JWJ) is a non-profit workers' advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Marking its beginning with a convening in Miami in 1987, JWJ started with members pledging to support others' fights for economic justice, as well as their own. Jobs With Justice organizes across community lines, working with community, student, faith, and organized labor groups. Significant JWJ campaigns include the Justice for Janitors (1985), Justice at Verizon (1989), and Justice at Smithfield (2008) campaigns. In 2012 Jobs With Justice announced a merger with American Rights at Work, another U.S. union advocate organization.[2] Jobs With Justice is based in Washington, D.C., and is led by Executive Director Erica Smiley. As of 2022, Jobs With Justice coalitions existed in over 30 cities or states in all regions of the country, and members now pledge to "stand up for our rights as working people to a decent standard of living; support the rights of all workers to organize and bargain collectively; fight for secure family-wage jobs in the face of corporate attacks on working people and our communities; organize the unorganized to take aggressive action to secure a better economic future for all of us; and mobilize those already organized to join the fight for Jobs With justice."