by Cooper | Nov 7, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
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...
by Cooper | Nov 6, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
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...
by Cooper | Nov 5, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
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...
by Cooper | Nov 4, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
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...
by Cooper | Nov 3, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
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...
by Cooper | Oct 30, 2020 | Victories & Impacts
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...
