Thanks to our partnership with Kevin Bradshaw, labor union leader in Tennessee, the National Jobs for All Network is featured on the Union Strong-Labor Education App. The platform is designed to educate people about the labor movement and jobs. Go to the “Learn” tab and see our website there. Enjoy! QRCODE Website Link: https://laboreducation.org/
By Sarianna Sabbarese (Field Organizer for the Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force and the National Jobs for All Network) The Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force (JAHRTF) serves as Connecticut’s chapter of the National Jobs for All Network, responding to unique challenges within the state’s economic, employment, social and political landscape from… Read More Good Jobs Are a Human Right!
What will the future look like? Who gets to decide? We’re living through extremely difficult and uncertain times. The issues we now face are the predictable culmination of unrestricted neoliberalism, imperialism, corporate greed and impunity, the steady erosion of investment in public welfare, and the entrenchment of power and privilege along class lines: one set… Read More LIBERATING THE FUTURE: 3-25 Virtual Panel and Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Jobs, Peace, and The Way Forward!
by Trudy Goldberg According to Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, our future would be a lot brighter and our democracy much healthier if collective bargaining were much more widespread and applied to economic encounters beyond the workplace. Smiley is Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, and Gupta is currently the Ford Foundation’s Vice President of… Read More Review of The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, ILR Press, 2022
The Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force is the outcome of a 2021 virtual New Haven Town Hall meeting to raise consciousness of the problem of unemployment in Connecticut and the need for sustainable jobs that meet human needs. Building on a model initiated in Dayton Ohio and later implemented in Memphis Tennessee by… Read More NJFAN’s Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force Expands Outreach: Former Social Work Interns Join Staff as Organizers
