Portland Jobs with Justice
A Labor-Community Organizing Hub
COVID-19 Organizing Response
Organizing with Food Service Workers in this Time of Crisis
Calling all Portland Food Service Workers!
We know food service workers are already experiencing huge stress because of shop closures and illness concerns! We are ramping up outreach efforts because we know folks need support, especially while social distancing.
We want to know what you need! Rent freeze? Paid family care/leave? What else?
Text “Community” to 503-782-6265 to get connected to these efforts!
¡Atención A Todos Los Trabajadores Del Servicio De Alimento En Portland!
¡Sabemos que los trabajadores del servicio de alimentos ya están sintiendo un gran estrés debido al cierre de tiendas y preocupaciones por enfermedades! Estamos aumentando alcanzar porque sabemos que la gente necesita apoyo, especialmente al distanciarse socialmente.
¡Queremos saber lo que necesitan! ¿Suspender los pagos de renta? ¿Permiso familiar/cuidado pagado? ¿Qué más necesitan?
¡Envie “Comunidad” al 503-782-6265 para conectarse a estas acciones!
PDX COVID19 Mutual Aid Network
Do you need support? Are you immuno-compromised or have other needs and help finding and getting supplies? All we have is each other, and only we can save each other. The PDX COVID19 Mutual Aid Network is a collective of organizations connecting impacted community members with support. If you need support, Request support here.
Information on The Stimulus Package
Click Here to view a power point presentation with relevant information on the stimulus package that was recently pass by congress.
Haga clic aquí para ever el powerpoint del Paquete de Estímulo Por el Coronavirus en Español.
Action You Can Take Right Now!
Supporting the most vulnerable in our community
- Click Here Now to learn how you can help with the shortage of masks and gloves for Oregon’s front line healthcare workers!
- Please consider contributing to this Emergency Solidarity Fund for Day Laborer Workers sponsored by the Voz Workers Rights Education Project.
- With your support, the Labor Community Services Agency can make a dent in the overwhelming need dislocated working families face. Your donations will provide housing & utility assistance, emergency childcare, food resources and more.
Click Here to donate today! - Sign this important petition to demand hazard pay for postal service workers at USPS during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are putting their health and lives on the line to make sure the mail gets delivered. Let’s show them our support!
- Donate to Cosecha’s Undocumented Worker Fund during this critical time when it is more important than ever to show solidarity with undocumented workers who are vital to the health and success of our economy.
- Please donate to help workers at the Amazon’s DBK1 warehouse in Queens, New York, get food, rent, and other essentials until they can win quarantine pay after being exposed to COVID-19.
Policy Actions and Petitions
- Click Here to demand that governors investigate and close Amazon warehouses that are putting workers lives at risk by not taking proper health and safety precautions during this pandemic.
- Click Here to Take Action Now to demand Congress pass paid sick leave for ALL working people, especially especially low wage and domestic workers.
- Click Here to sign the Food Chain Workers Alliance petition with demands for protections for front line food chain workers!
- Take Action NOW! to support front line health care workers!
→ Dial (202) 335-6015 ← and call Congress, demanding that your representative vote YES on H.R. 6139, the COVID-19 Worker Protection Act of 2020! It is crucial that we take action to protect front line health care workers, patients, and the public during this COVID-19 crisis. This bill would direct OSHA to enact an Emergency Temporary Standard so that front line nurses and other health care workers have the personal protective equipment they need to care for their patients during this pandemic. If nurses become infected they won’t be there when you and your loved ones need them. - Sign on to the NNU’s petition “Tell Congress: We demand nurses are protected during COVID-19.
- Oregon’s unions stand united in our call for the State of Oregon to use every tool available to ease the economic burden on working people and families while ensuring workers who cannot telecommute are provided with the best safety equipment and procedures possible. Click Here to sign the Oregon AFL-CIO petition.
- Sign and spread the word about this petition demanding that Amazon provide paid sick leave to its workers.
- From RAICES, a national immigrant rights group: petition to demand that ICE release immigrants at risk of coronavirus.
- Click Here to send a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and let them know that the U.S. needs to lift its deadly sanctions on Iran.
- The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting all Oregonians, regardless of their legal status. But while families are reeling, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents continue to target immigrant Oregonians for arrest, sending them to crowded detention centers described as “powder kegs” where doctors are concerned COVID-19 could “spread like wildfire.” Click Here to sign the petition to ICE in Oregon put the health and well-being of our communities at the forefront to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Other JwJ Efforts During This Crisis
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 have moved to teleconference or video conference platforms, and large in-person coalition events have been canceled or postponed.
- 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
In the interest of building networks that support workers and sharing resources, here are some other 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.
- Are you a parent suddenly faced with the challenge of having to home school your kids? Click Here for an extremely comprehensive list of resources and educational activities!
- Businesses in Oregon are trying to take advantage of the current crisis by using it to call for tax cuts. Read why the Oregon Center for Public Policy is insisting that we protect working families by rejecting calls for tax cuts. We need all the resources we can muster right now, it is not the time to make cuts to our resources!
- Click Here to check out the “Organizing in a Pandemic: Labor Notes Resources” webpage.
