Colorado Jobs With Justice

A nonprofit organization

Your donation allows us implement strategic Workers' Rights, Anti-Gentrification, and Educational Equity campaigns, grow our pop-ed program, mobilize our base, and build our coalition of community, labor, faith, and students. Every $ helps us build worker power in CO. Thank you for your generosity!

Testimonials

"CO Jobs with Justice is the central hub for all organizations and community members working on fair labor, just wages and equitable working environments for all. JwJ is uniquely situated to act as the backbone organization, ensuring that the entire movement is talking, planning, and organizing together. Thanks to JwJ I have had the opportunity to work with new organizations, meet new amazing justice warriors, develop my skills as a community advocate and refuel my tanks for the long and important fight ahead."

Lindsay Fallon, MSW
Outreach and Development Coordinator
Towards Justice

Mission

Colorado Jobs With Justice is a permanent, formal coalition of labor, community, faith, and youth organizations which come together to work on social and economic justice in a way that crosses lines of sector, race, and class to win concrete victories for working people.

Background Statement

Nationally, Jobs With Justice (JWJ) was formed in 1987 and has a 30 year history of fighting for working families and their communities. Colorado has one of the oldest coalition chapters, founded in the late 1980's. The main strength of Colorado Jobs With Justice (CO JWJ) is our role as a long-term coalition that promotes solidarity from one struggle to another and links disparate constituencies.

As with most of the older coalition chapters and the national organization, CO JWJ was founded by progressive labor leaders and community organizations looking for a new strategy to fight the continuing attacks on working people and unions that had escalated dramatically throughout the 1980's. Specifically, JWJ was formed in recognition of the fact that while short-term coalitions built around specific issues or campaigns are a vital part of movements for social justice, transformative relationships that expand both individuals' and organizations' understanding of their own self-interest in the social justice movement are required to win significant and lasting change. Prior to JWJ there had been many short-term coalitions built in Colorado, but the deeper relationship building of a permanent coalition was needed. JWJ was formed locally to fill this gap in the CO landscape.

One of the key strategies we have deployed from the inception of JWJ is asking folks to sign on to our "Be There Pledge" which asserts: "I'll be there . . . Standing up for our rights of 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 to fight for jobs with justice. During the next year, I'LL BE THERE at least five times a year for someone else's fight, as well as my own. If enough of us are there, we'll all start winning."

As the Colorado landscape has changed, we have adopted a variety of strategies to strengthen our role as a permanent, multi-issue coalition that brings together diverse organizations to make change. In addition to engaging and mobilizing our base, in the past several years we have made great strides in developing and leading strategic campaigns, educating and communicating with our base and the broader public, and training and developing leaders.

And at the end of the day, the main strength of Colorado Jobs With Justice remains our role as a long-term coalition that promotes solidarity from one struggle to another and links disparate constituencies.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Colorado Jobs With Justice

other names

COJWJ

Year Established

2001

Tax id (EIN)

52-2082139

Category

Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Organization Size

Medium Organization

Address

1600 Downing Street Suite 100
Denver, CO 80218

Service areas

Denver County, CO, US

Phone

720-593-6290

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