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Requests should be submitted by the Wednesday prior to the Steering Committee meeting where decisions are made.  Requests that come in later will be considered on an emergency basis.  Groups are expected to mobilize their own members for the event and provide volunteers to help with mailings.

 

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Your organization should plan to send a representative to the steering committee, which meets the first Monday of the month, to make the request for support. In addition to helping us make a decision, your presence helps build support for your event! If you or your representative cannot attend, please contact the office at 503.236.5573
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What are you requesting?

Make announcement and circulate sign-up sheet at meeting
Phone and mailing lists are available for our 200 most active members. Your organization is responsible for doing the mailing or making the calls. (maximum of 4 approved per month)
Mailing and activation of the phone tree lists of more than a thousand members. You must provide some volunteers for mailing and defray mailing expenses when possible. (maximum of 1 approved per month)
JwJ has extensive experience in planning campaigns and actions, including theater and the use of giant puppets. If you would like help in designing an event or a campaign, call the office at 236-5573.
The WRB is made up of about 70 community leaders who lend their moral support to workers and help resolve situations which threaten workers’ rights.
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Please describe your request. Include as many details as possible eg. date, time, location, and type of action or event.
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What is the nature of your struggle and how does it fit with JwJ criteria?


What can your organization provide?


Criteria for choosing actions

  • How the action fits into JwJ’s organizational priorities
  • Impact of JwJ’s support on the campaign
  • Impact on building JwJ and local coalitions
  • Amount of rank and file participation

In its work JwJ gives priority to struggles involving the most vulnerable workers in our community.
  • low wage workers
  • immigrants
  • people of color
  • women
  • youth

 

 

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Priority is given to member organizations of Portland Jobs with Justice.




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Who we are

 

Portland Jobs with Justice is a coalition of more than 80 labor organizations and community groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society.  We are committed to:

 

  • the creation of family wage jobs
  • support for organizing both here and abroad
  • support for community economic and civil rights struggles
  • maintain pressure to demand corporate accountability in our communities

 

We are also committed to creating an organization that is anti-racist and fully inclusive and welcoming to everyone. 

 

Jobs with Justice

6025 E Burnside

Portland, OR  97215

(503) 236-5573 • (503) 239-9441 fax

 

 
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