Portland Jobs with Justice

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT!
Campaign Organizer
Location: Portland Metro Area (Remote with optional office use)
Compensation: $55,000/year + benefits (see below)
Reports to: Executive Director
Application deadline: Priority given to applications received by August 5, 2025

Portland Jobs with Justice (JwJ) is hiring a full-time Campaign Organizer to lead and support organizing campaigns that bring together unions, faith leaders, community organizations, and grassroots activists. The Organizer will help coordinate strategic campaigns, foster coalition growth, and strengthen partnerships across diverse sectors advocating for workers’ rights and broader economic and social justice.

This is a dynamic role that involves working closely with unions, community partners, and grassroots activists in a fast-changing environment. The ideal candidate is a collaborative organizer who thrives in teams that are evolving and growing over time. They will be comfortable navigating shifting priorities, building relationships in new spaces, and helping shape campaigns in their early stages. Strong skills in relationship-building and experience organizing across lines of race, class, age, gender, and ability are essential. A background in faith and labor organizing, climate justice, or immigrant rights is a strong plus.

Portland Jobs with Justice is currently working on two strategic campaigns in our region:

CHIPS Communities United:
A coalition of labor, environmental, and community organizations working to ensure CHIPS Act funds create family-wage jobs and uphold strong environmental standards. As the regional anchor, JwJ is building a local coalition to drive advocacy, community engagement, and worker power.

Portland Rising/Oregon Rising:
A growing alliance of community and labor groups building a shared agenda for transformative change. JwJ sits on the coordinating committee and is helping build alignment statewide around shared demands.

About Portland Jobs with Justice

For over 35 years, Portland Jobs with Justice has united over 100 labor, community, and faith organizations, plus thousands of individual activists, to build power for all working people across the Portland area. We do this by expanding our coalition, identifying activists and leaders from our member organizations who pledge to “be there” for each other’s actions, and bringing together members of the coalition from multiple sectors. Our coalition organizes strategic campaigns that cross sectors — labor, community, faith, students, youth, and others to advance a shared vision of justice and dignity for all.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Campaign coordination:
  • Lead coalition campaigns focused on economic justice in the Portland metro area.
  • Develop and implement campaign strategy with the Executive Director.
  • Convene and coordinate coalitions, committees, and working groups.
  • Engage and mobilize coalition members, allies, and activists.
  • Recruit new member organizations and activists to strengthen the coalition.

• Communications & Outreach: 

• • Keep coalition members, partners, and the public informed about JwJ’s work.
  • Create campaign materials and content for newsletters, social media, and our website.
  • Assist in maintaining media relationships and press lists.

• Support other coalition activities as needed:

• • Represent JwJ at partner events, meetings, and community gatherings.
  • Identify and support emerging leaders from within the coalition and broader community.
  • Give presentations, lead trainings, and table at events.
  • Maintain databases using tools like Action Network and Salesforce.
  • Liaise with endorsed campaigns and support partner-led initiatives.
  • Supervise interns working on campaign projects.
  • Participate in mobilizations and direct actions as needed.

Qualifications

Required:

• • Deep commitment to racial, economic, gender, and social justice, including LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights.
  • At least 2 years of experience in grassroots, labor, or social justice organizing (paid or volunteer).
  • Understanding of labor unions, faith-based organizing, and social movements.
  • Experience working on strategic campaigns.
  • Familiarity with direct action organizing and coordination and/or arts and cultural organizing.
  • Self-starter with strong time management and follow-through.
  • A strong ability to motivate people, coordinate volunteer activity, and delegate responsibility.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work with diverse communities and across lines of difference.
  • Willingness to work evenings and weekends as needed.
  • Proficiency in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, etc.).
  • Access to a reliable personal vehicle (mileage reimbursed).

Preferred (not required):

• Experience with labor organizing or contract/bargaining campaigns.
• Familiarity with local and/or statewide policy campaigns.
• Familiarity with organizing in Washington County.
• Experience working in immigrant communities.
• Bilingual or multilingual (additional $2,000 annual pay differential).
• Familiarity with Jobs with Justice!

Compensation and Benefits:

• Starting salary: $55,000 annually

• Health and dental insurance (100% employer-paid, no deductible)

• Paid time off: 10 holidays + winter break + vacation accrual

• Parental leave: 12 weeks paid leave after one year of employment
• Professional development leave

• Retirement: 401(k) plan with employer contributions
• Civil disobedience leave: Paid leave for court dates, legal meetings, and related events if cited or arrested during an employer-supported action.

• Represented staff position (CWA Local 7901)

To Apply:

Email your resume and cover letter to jobs@jwjpdx.org with the subject line: “Campaign Organizer – [Your Name]”.

Priority will be given to applications received by August 5, 2025. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted. Position open until filled.

Portland Jobs with Justice is an affirmative action employer.
We strongly encourage applications from people of color, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, immigrants, and people with disabilities.

Call for Art Submissions: 250 Years of Resistance
Portland Jobs with Justice’s 2nd Annual Art Exhibition & Auction

In light of Trump’s simultaneous attack on the arts and gross obsession with a mythological American past, the theme of our 2nd annual art show is 250 Years of Resistance. Ever since European settlers arrived, there has been resistance to those in power.

The list of rebels is long, which is why we wanted to celebrate them through our weeklong gallery show at One Grand Gallery in September. We’re looking for artists who resonate with the theme and artwork in any form that tells the story of resistance.

Submissions can be made via our online form at bit/ly/artwork2025. Submissions are due by August 15, 2025.

Exhibited works will be auctioned off with the proceeds split 50/50 between the artist and Portland Jobs with Justice.

Join us for Portland Jobs With Justice’s Spring Solidarity Social — a rooftop evening of connection, celebration, and community.

This event brings together labor activists, community organizers, and social justice advocates to share victories, build new relationships, and strengthen our collective solidarity. Enjoy drinks, music, and casual conversations in a beautiful outdoor setting. We’ll have light programming with report-backs from the movement, but mostly, it’s a chance to relax and meet like-minded folks.

Tickets are $10 — RSVP required. The event is ADA accessible, and drinks will be available for purchase!

Masks are strongly encouraged when not eating or drinking.

We can’t wait to see you there!

April 25-26, Portland
Registration Open Now at pnlha.org

“Labor in a Hostile Political Environment: What Can Labor History Teach Us?”

Friday night, April 25 Oregon AFL-CIO, 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Portland
6:00-8:00 p.m. Panel Discussion:

“How Labor History Helps Us Understand and Face the Current Attacks on the
Labor Movement”
Graham Trainor, President, Oregon AFL-CIO
April Sims, President, Washington State Labor Council
Sussanne Skidmore, President, British Columbia Federation of Labour

Tour, Reception and Social Hour

Saturday, April 26, NECA/IBEW Electrical Training Center, 16021 NE Airport Way,
Portland

8:00-5:00 pm Plenary Sessions:

“The Other Operation Dixie: Public Workers and the Future of the Labor
Movement”
Will Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota

“Malevolent Bargains: The Politics of Immigration Restriction (1920s/2020s)”
Dan Tichenor, Professor of Political Science, Director, Wayne Morse
Center on Public Governance, University of Oregon
Bob Bussel, Professor Emeritus, Labor Education and Research Center,
University of Oregon
Responses from Oregon & Washington Trade Unionists

Workshops/Panels:
•Pages from British Columbia Labor History
•Black Oregonians and the Civilian Conservation Corps
•Teacher Strikes in the PNW in Historical Perspective
•Young Workers On the Move
•Class and Racial Violence in the PNW
•Building Labor and Environmental Coalitions: Then and Now
•Julia Rutilla: Women Fighters in the ILWU
•New Research in Labor History and Labor Strategy
•How to Do Local Union History

[Agenda subject to change. See PNLHA website for Updates]

Register now at pnlha.org
Early Bird (by April 1): $45
Students: Free [with student ID]

The Portland Workers’ Assembly will be meeting again on April 12, 10 am to 12 noon, at the Portland Association of Teachers Hall (345 NE 8^th Street).

We will be building on the work of the March meeting, which focused on the Minneapolis labor-community organizing experience.  But don’t worry if you didn’t make that meeting—we will start the April meeting with a review of key takeaways from that experience before turning our focus to Portland and how we can move our own labor-community organizing efforts forward.  

We encourage you to RSVP; it makes planning easier: bit.ly/portland-rising

And if you do want to learn more about the Minneapolis experience before the April meeting, check out the following:

·       Joseph A. McCartin, “Bargaining for the Common Good,” Dissent Magazine, Spring 2016.

·       Harold Meyerson, “Turning the Tables in Minnesota: An enduring union-community alliance in the Twin Cities may be a model for progressive victories,” The American Prospect, March 13, 2024.

·       Stephanie Luce, “Plan 2028: Bringing Labor and Social Movements Together,” Convergence, March 14, 2025. 

For over 2 years, workers at a mushroom facility in Sunnyside, WA, now owned by Windmill Mushroom Farm, have been fighting for union recognition. Under Washington State Law, agricultural workers are excluded from the right to organize and there is no legal mechanism to force companies to recognize labor unions regardless of the wishes of a majority of the workforce. Many pro-union workers at Windmill Mushrooms have faced adverse actions, including terminations and conditions that have pressured them to leave their jobs. As such, after repeated demonstrations, petitions, and other demands for union recognition, the United Farm Workers is announcing its first official boycott of the decade against Windmill Mushrooms, until the company agrees to recognize the union.

ACTION: Support Sunnyside Farm Workers Call for a Fair Contract Now!
NOON on Monday, March 31st at Safeway, Tacoma (2411 N Proctor St)

More actions for individuals and organizations:

1. Publicize the boycott (flier)
2. Endorse the boycott (FWM-NW sample)
3. Send letter to Windmill CEO (sample letter)
4. 2-3 people go to your local Safeway store and ask store manager not to buy the mushrooms (sample letter)
5. Sign up for the FWM-NW e-news at www.fwm-nw.org to stay current on campaign actions.
6. Let FWM-NW know what you did so we can share it with the workers, email fwm-nw@nfwm.org. It boosts worker morale when they know they are not alone in their struggle.