Tag: Jobs with Justice
Initiative petition campaign launched to require $15 an hour minimum wage,...
Jobs with Justice campaign looking for volunteers to collect signatures
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher Emeritus
An initiative petition campaign to raise Missouri’s minimum wage to $15 and...
Workers’ rights activist Joan Suarez honored
By RICHARD VonGLAHN
More than 100 members of St. Louis’ Labor, arts and civil rights community came together June 22 to honor dedicated activist Joan...
Jobs with Justice fighting for paid time-off for St. Louis city...
True to its mission, St. Louis Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is taking up a fight for St. Louis city workers to ensure they get...
YOUR LETTERS: Tell the EEOC to protect federal workers from discrimination
Once again, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the Trump administration is trying to make things worse for working people. The EEOC has...
YOUR LETTERS: Universities must lead in fight for $15 minimum wage
The University of Missouri holds a $1 billion endowment. MU Health Care profits were $100 million in 2018.
Yet, many Mizzou workers need second jobs...
Working family champions Nasheed, May, Williams fighting to protect Missouri’s minimum...
Workers and members of SEIU Healthcare, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655, the Fight for $15, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists...
RTW’s sad history dramatized in play
St. Louis – The Bread & Roses Missouri Workers’ Theatre has developed “Right-to-Work Exposed,” a sketch based on the history of the development of so-called...
Trump taps fast-food exec. Puzder, opponent of $15 minimum wage and...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
President-elect Donald Trump has picked fast-food executive and former St. Louis lawyer Andrew Puzder as his nominee for Secretary of Labor.
That’s bad...
SLU Hospital workers, community leaders kick off Fight for $15 and...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Michael Jones has worked in housekeeping at St. Louis University Hospital for the better part of 11 years. He makes $11...
JwJ’s Scrooge of the Year competition, a ‘Holiday Party with Attitude,’...
Join St. Louis Jobs with Justice for the annual “Holiday Party with an Attitude,” a holiday happy hour fundraiser where workers vote for the...