Fighting for Workers’ Rights
Our multiracial coalition based in San Francisco won the country’s first $15 minimum wage, tuition-free higher education program and fair scheduling law for retail workers. Our victories make real differences in the lives of working people, and spark movements nationwide.
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Workers don’t lead single issue lives — working families need secure jobs with living wages plus accessible healthcare, quality public education, affordable housing and a liveable climate.
WORKERS' Right
Jobs with Justice brings together unions, worker centers and community organizations to build a powerful movement for workers rights’ and racial justice in San Francisco. We fight for a strong public sector and investments in our communities, pathways to good jobs, and to uphold labor rights for all workers.
climate jOBS & WORKER-LED transition
Our climate work engages unions, worker centers, and community organizations in the movement for a worker-led transition that benefits communities and the planet. We are building a strong labor/climate movement that aligns partners to build a thriving future for working people as well as communities who have been on the frontlines of pollution exposure and historically excluded from good jobs.
DEFEND COMMUNITIES, FIGHT AUTHORITARIANISM
In the face of dangerous attacks on immigrants and rising authoritarianism, Jobs with Justice has been organizing to keep our communities safe.
solidarity & racial justice
The most important thing we do as JwJ is to have each other’s backs when times are hardest. JwJ performs a crucial movement role of bringing groups together in intersectional solidarity and building power so that we can win bigger victories together.
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Fifteen years ago, community and union leaders created JwJ to build lasting relationships, mutual solidarity and greater power. Together we won bigger.
Bay ResIstance
On the eve of Trump’s inauguration, Jobs with Justice alongside Bay Rising and San Francisco Rising founded Bay Resistance, a broad and diverse network of 50 organizations ready to defend our communities, our movements, and our planet.
labor for black lives
JwJ convened labor and community organizations to support the Movement for Black Lives, organizing actions and workshops, mobilizing labor contingents to marches and deepening member education around M4BL.
free city college
JwJ helped build an exciting coalition of labor, community and student organizations who campaigned to make City College of SF tuition-free, as it was before 1983.
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