Victories & Impact

Through the SF development boom, our Good Jobs for All campaign fought to ensure our communities would benefit with union jobs, job training, and strong targeted and local hire processes that prioritize hiring formerly-incarcerated individuals, homeless or formerly...

In 2019, together with a strong coalition of community, housing and labor partners, JwJ scored a major victory for the city’s low and middle income workers when we pushed for and won SF’s “Housing our Workers” legislation. Introduced by Supervisor Haney, the...

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. In 2017, San Francisco became the first city in the nation offering tuition-free higher education for...

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. The BR rapid response system of...

In 2014, 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. In solidarity with the #FreedomNow actions, we...

JwJ led the community labor campaign to hold Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center accountable to community and worker needs. CPMC is the largest hospital corporation and the second largest private employer in San Francisco. Our coalition celebrated a...

JwJ convened a coalition that won the landmark Retail Workers Bill of Rights in 2014, the first policy in the country requiring fair and predictable schedules and promoting full time employment, and job security for over 40,000 retail, restaurant and service workers...

To address surging income inequality in our city, JwJ convened a coalition of community and labor groups to lead the campaign to raise San Francisco's minimum wage to $15 per hour. In 2014, an overwhelming 77% of voters supported Prop J creating the strongest minimum...