Portland Jobs with Justice
A Labor-Community Organizing Hub
Join JWJ to Celebrate Solidarity!
Portland JWJ’s Summer Solidarity Celebration is back!
Less than a month away… we hope you will join us in celebrating community-labor solidarity!
We’ll have raffle prizes, light hors’ d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and live music!
*We do require guests to be fully vaccinated and to wear a mask when not consuming.
Thursday, May 26, 6 – 8pm
The Village Ballroom, 21+
704 NE Dekum St. Portland
To purchase tickets or to partner as a sponsor, Click Here!
Invite your friends and help us spread the word by sharing our Facebook event page here!
For ASL or Spanish interpretation, or for any other questions, please contact Operations Organizer Amanda Sager, amanda@jwjpdx.org.
May Day: Migrants & Workers of the World UNITE! 2022 Portland May Day
International Workers Day, commonly known as May Day, is a day of worker solidarity and protest. May Day is celebrated around the world, with workers taking to the streets with demands and uplifting working-class struggles. JWJ proudly co-sponsors a migrant-centered May Day, led by International Migrants Alliance (IMA) and a coalition of migrant and worker-led orgs
-11:00 am: Gather at the Battleship Memorial at Tom McCall Park
-12:00 pm: March (route is one-way and approximately 2 miles)
-2:00pm: Rally at PSU Park Blocks
Share the Facebook event page here!
Note: Please wear your masks and stay COVID-19 safe.
Join the May Day Coalition for a Variety of Worker and Migrant Centered Educational, Artistic, and Political events in the Lead-up to May Day! Check out the events here!
MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE – A PORTLAND RISING READING GROUP!
Here is a shot of the many participants of JWJ’s Portland Rising’s robust bi-weekly reading group on Ministry for the Future! Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel has served as a platform for organizing strategies and collaboration. To get involved with Portland Rising’s programs – discussions, panels, film screenings and other educational events – send a message to portlandrisingprograms@gmail.com!
Check out Portland Rising’s committee page here! 
The novel courses through the next century and the diversity of tactics needed to combat climate change. The book dares us to imagine ourselves as a collective, standing in the judgment of a future that wants a livable environment more than a clean fight. Our task, as readers, is to decide what must be done – in response! 
Join the Public Panel on JWJ’s Exhibit as part of the PNLHA Labor History Conference!
In case you missed our previous posts, registration is live for Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (PNLHA) 2022 Labor History Conference: Using Labor’s Past to Mobilize for Labor’s Future.
PNLHA’s 2022 Labor History Conferencewill feature examples, strategies, and opportunities to workshop ideas for using labor history to inspire, organize and mobilize today’s workers. Conference workshops include Race and Labor: Pursuing Racial Justice and Building Anti-Racist Unions. Attendees will also be able to tour the exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society: Building Solidarity for 30 Years, Portland Jobs with Justice.
Don’t miss the Public Plenary Panel! Free and open to the public, the community is invited to attend the plenary discussion which will explore the history of JwJ’s origins and development as an activist organization.
Whether you are able to join for the full-day conference, or simply the public panel, join us to reflect on the past, present, and future of JWJ’s labor-community connections. The panel discussion will feature Margaret Butler, Alice Dale, Veronica Dujon, Rev. Cecil Prescod, and Meredith Schafer, and will be moderated by Bob Bussel. Read more about it here!
Full Conference: Saturday, April 23rd from8 – 5:30pm; Registration: $30
Morning: First Congregational Church
Afternoon: Oregon Historical Society
Register for the Conference here. Limited fee waivers available on request.
Panel, 2-3:30,free and open to the public, at the Oregon Historical Society
More information online or email the PNLHA here.
JwJ Takes Action to Protect Workers from Heat & Smoke. How you can, too!
Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published its final draft of proposed rules to protect workers from climate-fueled wildfire smoke and excessive heat. OSHA is accepting public comments on both sets of rules until March 18th. It’s critical that worker, climate, and public health advocates show up in full force during the comment period to secure the most protective standards for workers.
Urge Oregon OSHA to improve the draft excessive heat and smoke rules and to adopt them without delay. Present your testimony in writing or orally during the public comment period. Use this helpful guide.
Below is testimony from JwJ Operations Organizer, Amanda Sager (she/her).
Support Starbucks Workers, United, in the Portland area!
At a time when Starbucks corporate has seen record-breaking profits, workers are bravely asserting their right to a union — and demanding corporate put Partners over Profit!
There are now 7 stores (if not more, by the time you receive this!) in the Portland metro area organizing with SBWorkersUnited!
You (and your colleagues) can support workers by heading out anytime to order a coffee. Order under the name “Union Yes”, “Union Strong” or “Solidarity” in your name at the locations below. Tell them JwJ has their back. Bring a #UnionStrong solidarity message for workers to post on their boards! And stay tuned to our newsletter (sign up here) for more worker actions!
Visit these shops:
Walker Road – 6175 SW Walker Rd, Beaverton
Jenkins at Cedar Hills – 2933 SW Cedar Hills Blvd
Garden Home – 7315 SW Garden Home Rd
28th & Powell – 2880 SE Powell Blvd, Portland
Grand and Lloyd – 525 NE Grand Avenue
5th and Oak/US Bank Tower – 555 S.W. Oak Street
23rd and Burnside – 2328 W Burnside
