Victories & Impact

In 2022, JwJ played a critical role in passing the Tenant Right to Organize. The new law—the first of its kind in the country—includes several key features that make tenant associations stronger and safer than ever before: The protected right to form an association...

In March of 2020, JwJ co-founded Undocufund San Francisco with allied SF immigrant and worker rights organizations to provide critical aid to undocumented immigrants who were cut out of the social safety net. Many of our undocumented community members work in...

After the pandemic hit, JwJ helped pass critical legislation in SF establishing a public health emergency leave, providing 200,000 workers up to two weeks of paid leave. The ordinance provided among the most extensive emergency leave coverage for coronavirus related...

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 2020 we completed the first representative and large scale study of app-based work with the University of California and national Jobs with Justice. The central findings were simple and clear—for a large portion of this workforce, despite this being full-time...

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 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...