Massachusetts Jobs with Justice supports the struggle for economic justice in the U.S. As the 99 percent, we are fighting to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent.
Our Organizing Campaigns
Jobs with Justice is active on numerous campaigns across Massachusetts that affect workers locally, nationally, and globally. Below is a listing of some of the campaigns we are currently involved with. For more information on how to get involved with these —and our many other — campaigns, visit the committee listing.
Verizon workers need the support of allies to fight back attack on workers’ rights! What’s at stake?
As the baby boomer population ages, a shift with enormous economic and political implications is taking place in the United States. People with long-term care and support service needs are projected to grow from 13 million in 2000, to 27 million in 2050. The current long-term care workforce numbers at approximately 3 million workers. The gap between the care that is needed and the current workforce could present a social crisis of immense proportions. At the same time, we are faced with one of the most severe economic downturns in decades, with unemployment rates remaining high.
From union-busting, anti-teacher laws to charter schools, corporate America is funding the attacks on public education. We are fighting back to defend the rights of both teachers and students.
The health care crisis in America grows deeper everyday. More than 45 million people have no health insurance, while millions more are underinsured. The rest of us face rising premiums and deductibles, a decline in the quality of care, and cuts in public programs and essential services. Health care costs have become the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S., fueling fear among working families that a severe illness or a medical emergency could ruin their dream of a better life.
At Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, we know that the struggle for workers' rights reaches beyond the United States. Workers around the world are engaged in struggles against corporations and bad employers, while simultaneously dealing with the repercussions of globalization. We stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters from Colombia to France to El Salvador, wherever workers and communities are standing up for justice.
The We Want Good Jobs Coalition consists of activist, community, labor, and religious groups in Massachusetts whose members are dedicated to promoting a set of standards for how Wal-Mart treats workers and their community. The coalition firmly believes Massachusetts workers should not have to settle for just any job and allow any company to destroy their community for the sake of a job.
