jobs with justice

  • Organize the Unemployed?
    Jenny Brown
    Jan 19 2012 - 12:20pm
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    Wrenching testimonies from laid-off workers are overflowing the internet, crying out from the pages of policy reports, and popping up in commercial media. But unions are still grappling with how to organize the unemployed, including their own ex-members, into a political force.

  • As 'Right to Work' Law Looms, Indiana Occupiers Brace Limestone Strikers
    Joseph Varga
    Jan 5 2012 - 11:24am

    Despite an anti-union hostility that could result in a right-to-work law, Indiana is seeing an unexpected alliance bloom in a hard winter strike: Occupy Bloomington is rallying to the union.

  • Unions' All-Out Effort Looks to Pay Off in Ohio
    Debbie Kline
    Nov 8 2011 - 10:11am

    The grand Republican plan to stick it to the working class is backfiring in Ohio as voters in the state head to the polls today. They look to defeat Governor John Kasich’s attack on bargaining rights for public workers.

  • Store Workers Say: Whose Walmart? OUR Walmart!
    Jenny Brown
    Aug 29 2011 - 7:45am

    Fear is the main thing stopping retail workers from organizing for better treatment at Walmart, said several employees who are doing just that. They lost their fear, they said, after they stood up for themselves and marched on Walmart headquarters.

  • Paid Sick Leave at a Stand-Off in Philly
    Warren Davis
    Jul 5 2011 - 11:30am

    A Democratic mayor’s veto last week will not be enough to stop a three-year-old push for paid sick leave in Philadelphia. With 71 percent of residents in support, and positive results in other cities to point to, supporters vow to find the votes to override the veto.

  • Rite Aid Warehouse Workers Win Contract after National Push
    Jenny Brown
    May 6 2011 - 2:00pm

    Winning a union is half the battle: the other half is securing a first contract. After three years, a union at Rite Aid’s huge California warehouse won an agreement with a campaign that spread to other unions and states.

  • Rite Aid Unions Unite Against Concessions
    Jenny Brown
    Dec 16 2010 - 12:34pm

    The drugstore chain Rite Aid is in financial straits and has escalated its assaults on unionized employees, demanding dramatic health care cost increases. In response, workers from California to New York raised protests at 40 stores on December 15.

  • Learning the Art of Flexible Labor

    The unemployment crisis in this country coincides with a decades-long growth in employment by temp agencies, making millions of Americans’ search for secure, decent-paying jobs even more difficult. The bizarre experience I had last week along with more than 500 other Twin Cities job-seekers sheds some light on what “flexibility” means in today’s labor market.

  • Now We’re a Terrorist Threat?

    In a time when politicians are wringing their hands over “out-of-control” spending, Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security has contracted the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, a private company, to assess terrorist threats--like Jobs with Justice.

  • Demonstrators Press for Action on Jobs Emergency
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Oct 3 2010 - 1:16am

    Thousands of Jobs with Justice activists and community allies hit the streets in more than 100 cities across the nation September 15 to warn of a “Jobs Emergency.” Their warning: “If Congress won’t act to create jobs, then maybe they don’t deserve to have jobs.”