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Upcoming Events

Sewallcrest Park Doorknocking with Eviction Representation for AllMarch 5, 2023 at 11:00 am – 1:30 pmSEWALLCREST PARK DOORKNOCKING11:00am to 1:30pm at SEWALLCREST PARKRain or shine, dress for the weather! Coffee and food will be provided. If you aren't feeling well, or may have had a covid exposure please do not come, be cautious and come to the next one instead. Plan for 2 1/2 hours for a training and then…
JwJ Monthly Steering Committee MeetingMarch 6, 2023 at 5:30 pm – 7:00 pmZoom Meetings

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Share this Info! Severe weather shelters are open. No one will be turned away. Care for when it’s cold:

Portsmouth Union: 4775 N. Lombard St., Portland, OR 97203,

Arbor Lodge: 1952 N. Lombard St., Portland, OR 97217

Sunrise Center: 18901 E. Burnside St., Portland, OR 97233

Oregon Convention Center: 960 NE 1st, Portland, OR 97232

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Keep warm. Avoid traffic. Help your neighbor. Volunteer. Tips and reso

Thank you to everyone who attended, donated, volunteered, and worked the JwJ Annual Dinner last night. It was an amazing and powerful evening, and we couldn't have done it without you!

Huge shout out to the fantastic band, Lorna Baxter Trio - proud members of American Federation of Musicians Local 99, and the talented A/V team at People's AV & I.A.T.S.E. Local 28.

If you couldn't make the event but want to donate to the cause, click here for a direct donation site.

Thank you again and see you soon!!

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This week in Labor history: 1903 – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones’ March of the Mill Children, a three-week trek from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, arrives. This 200-strong march was a delegation of striking child and adult textile workers which brought public attention to the inhumane conditions of child labor.

Stay Safe This Hot Labor Summer ! Hot weather is here, and here is what you need to know! New rules in Oregon are now in effect to protect workers, including the right to more breaks, water, and shade. Read about it and how workers voices made it happen, here at the JWJ blog: Workers Win Stronger Protections from Heat and Smoke Just in Time for Summer!

Support the Strike Fund!

Early childhood educators at Growing Seeds Crystal Springs ( Growing Seeds Workers Union) have voted to authorize a strike! Workers at Fang! Pet & Garden Supply who just last week won their union 100% yes, want to make sure they’re ready for one, if needed. A Strike Fund has been set up to support these newly organized workers as they fight for a fair first contract. Let's support these workers and spread word of this fund. Should workers strike, we'll be there, and we're counting on you to be there too! tinyurl.com/L5StrikeFund

Mushroom Farm Workers Need Your Support!

Workers at Ostrom Mushroom Farm are fighting for a union with UFW, and need your support! Workers are demanding a workplace free from threats, excessive pressure, harassment and retaliation and recently, 200 workers and allies delivered a petition over these issues to management. Management has, so far, declined to recognize the union and address the issues in the petition.

Please sign this petition and better still, join JWJ with organizational letters to the CEO, Travis Wood, urging him to meet with the elected worker committee and the UFW to negotiate in good faith the issues in their petition immediately!

Rev. Connie Yost of JWJ's Faith-Labor Committee and Farm Ministry NW has forwarded UFW's request for solidarity letters . Here is Rev. Connie Yost's letter, and here is a sample letter to follow.

Please craft and send in a letter as soon as possible!

VIA EMAIL: twood@ostromfarms.com
Mr. Travis Wood, CEO
Ostrom Mushroom Farms
1111 Midvale Road
Sunnyside, WA 98944

TODAY! Join AFSCME Local 328's Picket to Support OHSU Workers!

JWJ and the community came out strong in support of AFSCME Local 328 members demanding OHSU "Invest in Us!" Please join AFSCME Local 328 members once again, who are scheduling a strike vote, in their demands for justice. Today, members will mount a picket on the waterfront in the middle of a marathon two-day, in-person mediation session. Let's come together to push OHSU to make movement at the bargaining table and reach a settlement!

Heat considerations: It is expected to be near 100 degrees. Please do not feel obligated to come should the heat be a concern or exacerbate medical or any other issues. There will be tents for shade and coolers with ice and bottled water. More picket details here!

Wed, July 27th from 4-5pm
South Waterfront (Moody Ave.)
Share the Facebook event page here!

Join the Rally for Medicare for All!

Saturday, July 30 - 12 Noon

Shemanski Park
SW Park & Salmon St., Downtown Portland

Want to march there? Meet at the Battleship Memorial (SW Naito / Pine) at Waterfront Park at 10:45am!

On Medicare's birthday, join Portland JWJ Health Care Committee and a coalition of health care activists for the second-annual rally for Medicare for All! Come out for inspiring speakers, music, organizational tables, and the Raging Grannies!

This is an important political moment. Reproductive rights and gender-affirming care are under attack, and the COVID-19 crisis has further exposed the broken state of healthcare in our country. Medicare for All is the first and necessary step toward solidifying care for all of those currently lacking access. People all over the country experience health inequities on the basis of race, language, income, type of job, immigration status, disability, and gender identity. The time has come for universal, comprehensive, publicly funded healthcare that is free at the point of service. No premiums, no co-pays, no deductibles. Everybody in, nobody out.

Share the Facebook event HERE!

Join Oregon PSR for the Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorial Event

On Monday, August 8th, join the annual event to memorialize Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Free and open to the public, please join Oregon PSR and community members for moving performances by Portland Taiko, LaRhonda Steele & the Grace Gospel Quartet, a sing-along with the Hiru Gohan Group, and a dance performance by Tsubaki Buyo Doukoukai.

Monday, August 8th at 6pm
Japanese American Historical Plaza at Waterfront Park

Two Months In and Over Halfway There... Eviction Representation for All Campaign Update!

The deadline to qualify for this November’s election was July 18th, giving the campaign for Eviction Representation for All just under two months to gather 22,000 valid signatures. The November 2022 election was an ambitious goal -- the issue of unjust eviction was simply too urgent to aim for less. The good news is that every signature collected this summer will get ERA on the May 2023 ballot, and the campaign is halfway there!

From the start, Eviction Representation for All (ERA) has been a grassroots, tenant-led effort. People are excited every time volunteers hit the streets, unfurl their banner, or hop a train. They are excited about proactive solutions to fighting the housing crisis and keeping tenants housed. The time volunteers have to personally collect 30,000 signatures is limited. And that’s where you come in.

Collect signatures! Instructions and printable signature sheets on the website: eratenants.org/gather

Sign the petition today! eratenants.org/sign

JWJ's Faith-Labor Committee is recruiting leaders!

Are you a person of faith and fired up over workers struggle and social justice? Are you interested in working in fellowship with volunteers who dedicate their time and energy to uplift working people? Are you interested in expanding out the good works and building solidarity among communities of faith? Then this opportunity is for you!

The cherished Co-Chairs of JWJ's Faith-Labor Committee are looking to pass the torch to new leadership. Check out the Job Description here, and get in touch with Jean and/or Cecil for more information!

Steering Committee

Are you organizing intersectional campaigns around workers' rights + social justice, and looking for community support? Join JwJ's Monthly Steering Committee Meeting, to get support for your struggle!

Portland Jobs with Justice Steering Committee meets on the first Monday of each month from 5:30-7pm. At this meeting we discuss and vote on supporting, endorsing, and organizing events that fit into the mission of Jobs with Justice.

Request support here and share with us at our monthly Steering Committee, next held on August 1st, from 5:30-7pm. Click Here to send an email to Sarah for information on how to join! All requests must be submitted by the Friday prior.

Portland Rising

Portland Rising is a committee that hosts discussions, panels, film screenings and other educational events about the importance of unions, and to draw connections between seemingly different campaigns based on the idea that all of our struggles are intersectional and interrelated. Portland Rising's thought-provoking discussions inspire real-world organizing. Just recently, participants in the Ministry for the Future reading group went on to organize their neighborhood on climate issues though a highly attended screening of Drawdown at the Aladdin!

Portland Rising has recently updated it's "Why Unions Matter" page! Click Here for many new articles in the free library on Worker Organizing efforts, Anti-Worker Threats and Actions, Labor Law and Workers Rights, and more! Check it out and bookmark this resource today!

To get involved or join the mailing list, please email portlandrisingprograms@gmail.com. The committee is engaging in robust organizing around several program areas. Get in touch!

Health Care Committee

The JwJ Health Care Committee works to promote healthcare as a human right at the local, state, and national level, to defend union health plans, and to fight for fair, equitable and comprehensive health care that covers everyone and is paid for with public funds. The JWJ Health Care Committee is part of a broad coalition sponsoring the second annual Medicare for All Day of Action July 30th! Don't miss it! See the listing above to get involved, sponsor, or table!

Click Here to send an email to the Health Care Committee chairperson to get on the committee's email list and for information on how to join the next virtual meeting held Tuesday, August 16th at 5:30pm!

Faith Labor Committee

JWJ's Faith Labor Committee's next meeting is today, Wed, July 27th at Noon.

Click Here to send an email to get on the Faith Labor Committee's email list and for information to get involved with the meeting.

The Faith Labor Committee is made up of labor and faith activists and leaders who come together to build sustained relationships between the labor community, and individuals and congregations in the faith community. Based on these relationships, the committee works to develop and implement outreach strategies to facilitate the faith community showing up in support of the struggles of working people in our city.

Global Justice Committee

Portland Jobs with Justice has long history of international solidarity work and trade justice. Recently, we participated in a press conference to urge wealthy countries to put global solidarity ahead of profit at the WTO: pass a comprehensive TRIPS Waiver to increase the supply of COVID diagnostics and treatments. We look forward to learning more about the next trade deal, Indo Pacific Economic Framework from partners Trade Justice Education Fund.

Just last week, we participated in PCASC's Virtual Spring Brunch and 43rd Anniversary on the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. We continue to uplift human rights in the Philippines and efforts to End the Blockade of Cuba!

Want to get involved? Are you looking for a leadership opportunity? Write sarah@jwjpdx.org

Climate Jobs Committee

The Climate Jobs Committee works at the intersections of the labor and climate justice movements. Climate Jobs has been integral to passing the Portland Clean Energy Fund, upholding high-road Labor standards in Climate and COVID-related emergency declarations, as well as expanding the coalition to create stronger heat and smoke standards to protect frontline workers from climate extremes.

Check out our most recent blog post on how JWJ's Climate Jobs, a coalition of advocates, and workers came together to pass the strongest heat and smoke protections in the nation! Climate Jobs is dedicated to robust climate action and have continued to mobilize with youth climate strikers and participated in rallies and marches to confront climate villains and to demand the City uphold it's commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Click Here to send an email to the Climate Jobs chairperson to join the email list and for information to join August's meeting!

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Steering Committee

Are you organizing campaigns for workers' rights + intersectional social justice, and looking for community support? Join us for JwJ"s Monthly Steering Committee Meeting, to get support for your struggle!

Portland Jobs with Justice Steering Committee meets on the first Monday of each month. At this meeting we discuss and vote on supporting, endorsing, and organizing events that fit into the mission of Jobs with Justice.

Request support here and share with us at our monthly Steering Committee, next upcoming on Monday, February 7th from 5:30-7pm. Click Here to send an email to Sarah for information on how to join! All requests must be submitted by Noon on Friday, February 4th.

Portland Rising

Portland Rising is a committee that hosts discussions, panels, film screenings and other educational events about the importance of unions, and to draw connections between seemingly different campaigns based on the idea that all of our struggles are intersectional and interrelated. Interested in working with us on our current programs and helping to develop new ones?

Get involved or join the mailing list, please email portlandrisingprograms@gmail.com.

Health Care Committee

Click Here to send an email to the Health Care Committee chairperson to get on the committee's email list and for information on how to join the next virtual meeting held Tuesday, February 15th at 5:30pm!

The Health Care Committee and Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program encourage you to attend Conversations with Candidates. At each session, an Oregon gubernatorial or Congressional candidate will talk about healthcare policy. Ask questions after the presentation about their support for Medicare 4 All!

Tuesdays through May, from 8-9pm.
Register for the series here: https://bit.ly/ORcandidates2022
For more information, check out this flier!

Faith Labor Committee

Our Faith Labor Committee's next meeting is Wednesday, February 23rd at Noon. Click Here to send an email to get on the Faith Labor Committee's email list and for information on how to join the meeting.

The Faith Labor Committee is made up of labor and faith activists and leaders who come together to build sustained relationships between the labor community, and individuals and congregations in the faith community. Based on these relationships, the committee works to develop and implement outreach strategies to facilitate the faith community showing up in support of the struggles of working people in our city.

Global Justice Committee

Portland Jobs with Justice has long history of international solidarity work. Currently, committee members are actively supporting efforts to uplift the welfare and working conditions of global seafarers, and mobilizing in support of the "TRIPS" Waiver to unblock global access to vaccines.

TAKE ACTION! This week the Global Justice Commitee asks you to take Urgent Action for Guapinol 8 Water Defenders in Honduras. They are accused of trumped up charges for defending the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers from a mining operation led by Honduran mining company Inversiones Los Pinares. Friday marks a critical time in the trial. Follow this link to write your member of Congress - ask them to call or email the State Department and/or the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa and ask them to attend the trial this Friday.

February 3, join Global Exchange for a conversation about the present and future challenges to rebuilding democracy in Honduras: "Honduras: What's Next?"

If you want to get involved in this impactful work, email sarah@jwjpdx.org!

Climate Jobs Committee

The Climate Jobs Committee works at the intersections of the labor and climate justice movements. Climate Jobs has been integral to passing the Portland Clean Energy Fund, upholding high-road Labor standards in Climate and Health Policy, as well as working in coalition to create stronger safety standards to protect workers from extreme weather.

Click Here to send an email to the Climate Jobs chairperson to join the email list and for information to join our next meeting Wednesday, February 16th at 5:30pm!

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In these extraordinary times, you have likely felt a range of emotions as COVID-19 continues to have a sweeping impact on daily life and upend the life of work as we know it. Among the crises that Jobs with Justice strives to collectively confront, COVID-19 emerges as yet another. Portland Jobs with Justice is committed to nimbly organizing in this moment creatively and by safer means while raising our collective voices for structural change. We express unwavering solidarity with workers who labor at the frontlines of the crisis, who work in vital life-supporting capacities. We will continue to raise our moral voice for food service workers who have suddenly lost income but not utility payments, for grocery workers who tirelessly provide vital needs, for hospital workers who labor with inadequate supplies, and we seek to uplift the conditions for the most marginalized among us. We see you. Jobs with Justice, your community labor organization, is here for you.

We have taken preventative measures to protect our at-risk community members. Last week we closed our office until further notice. Our in-person committees will move to teleconference or virtual, and large in-person coalition events have been cancelled or postponed.

We have taken action demanding state and local electeds us their power and resources to provide immediate relief to working people in crisis. We also call on state and local leadership to advocate the federal government enact:

Emergency Rent assistance
Emergency Food assistance
Utility Bill Assistance
Additional Paid Sick Leave
Unemployment benefits and extended benefits
Testing and treatment fully available and free irrespective of health care coverage
Safe transit for transit-dependent people.
Emergency state action to prevent evictions and stringent rent control through the term of the epidemic
Moratorium on immigration enforcement and a shutdown of immigration facilities

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to demand Congress pass paid sick leave for ALL working people, especially especially low wage and domestic workers.

In the interest of building networks that support workers and sharing resources, some useful links below:

Schools that are providing free grab and go kid's meals to Portland-area families during closure.

An invaluable resource for workers
on COVID:19 related business closures, layoffs, and unemployment insurance.

From Oregon Center for Public Policy,
Changes to Unemployment Insurance Would Help Oregon Cope with COVID-19.

PDX: COVID19 Mutual Aid Network is a collective of organizations connecting impacted community
members with support. Request support here.

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Portland Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor organizations and community groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society. JwJ mobilizes support for labor and community struggles at rallies, on picket lines, in educational settings and at meetings and hearings.

Scrooge of the Year is an annual award the community (you!) vote on to award to the year's worst Portland-area player. It can be a corporation, a politician, or someone completely different.

We here at Portland Jobs with Justice think it's important that the voting process for this award is true to our American democratic system. That's right - this election is for sale! You may purchase as many votes as you wish to decide the worst boss in town.

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...standing up for our rights as working people to a decent standard of living.

...supporting the right of all workers to organize and bargain collectively

...fighting for secure family-wage jobs in the face of corporate attacks on working people and our communities

...organizing the unorganized to take aggressive action to secure a better economic future for all of us.

...mobilizing those already organized to join the fight for jobs with justice.

During the next year, I WILL BE THERE at least five times for someone else's fight, as well as my own.

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as they have the intelligence to want
and the courage to take.”
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