Portland Jobs with Justice
A Labor-Community Organizing Hub
Portland Jobs with Justice 32nd Annual Justice Jubilee with Sara Nelson
Join us for the 32nd Annual Justice Jubilee! Thursday, September 26 | 6:30pm-9pm |Fields Sunken Ballroom | Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building | 1119 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR 97205
With your generous support, Portland Jobs with Justice has been at the forefront of the fight for working people in our city for over thirty years. On this night, we celebrate our struggles and accomplishments of this year as we prepare for what future years may bring. The fight for a better world begins today!
In addition to a delicious meal, cash bar, and silent auction, we’re thrilled to announce our keynote speaker is none other than AFA-CWA International President, Sara Nelson. Sara has served as the International President of the AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014, representing 55,000 of aviation’s first responders at 20 airlines. She has been a union Flight Attendant since 1996 when she started flying at United Airlines. Sara designed the successful payroll support program that was a historic Worker’s First relief program that kept aviation workers connected to their paychecks, healthcare, and other benefits for 16 months during the COVID pandemic, while banning stock buybacks and dividends across the industry and capping executive compensation for 2 years after the relief period ends. Sara believes Labor should set the agenda every time.
The New York Times called her “America’s most powerful flight attendant” for her role in helping to end the 35-day Government Shutdown, InStyle Magazine placed her on their Top 50 Badass Women list, the New Yorker did a major profile in 2022, and Fast Company put her on the cover of their Summer 2021 magazine with the headline, “Workers Strike Back.” Sara often says corporations have money and control but workers have the power, and the Labor Movement is for all working people. She encourages women everywhere to join unions and run unions. She believes Flight Attendants can play a pivotal role in building worker power with more public contact than almost any other job and connectivity around the world.
Masks required when not eating or drinking. Thank you for keeping our communities safe!
All-Star Activist Tickets
$100 General Admission Tickets
$50 Student Ticket
Presenting Sponsor
$4000 Table for 10 and entrance to pre-dinner reception, logo on JwJ website, listed as a sponsor on all communications, name and logo on all related social media, full page digital ad, stage time to talk about your union’s work or campaign, and a bottle of wine for your guests.
Solidarity Sponsor
$2850 Table for 10 and entrance to pre-dinner reception, logo on JwJ website, name on all related social media, full page digital ad, a special stage mention and a bottle of wine for your guests.
Workers’ Wonder Sponsor
$1850 Table for 10, logo with on JwJ website, social media feature, half page digital ad, and a bottle of wine for your guests.
Pledging Power Sponsor
$950 5 Dinner tickets, logo on JwJ webpage, social media mention, quarter page digital ad.
Vital Voice Sponsor
$125 Dinner ticket, name on our website and in the sponsor list, complimentary drink ticket.
$250 Double benefits for couple sponsors.
Annual Dinner Scholarship Fund
$100 Contribute directly for tickets gifted to low-wage workers, striking or unemployed workers.
Email Tyler at Tyler@jwjpdx.org with any questions
Call for Artists! Join JWJ’s First Annual Art Exhibition & Auction
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Portland Jobs with Justice First Annual Art Gallery & Auction
Ashes of the Old: A Labor Movement Reinvigorated
One Grand Gallery
Art Display September 21 to September 28, 2024
Opening night reception ft. music by YOITSVO
In the last few years, there has been an upsurge in labor activism, led by workers who want more out of life than what the corporate controlled society has to offer. This September, we will celebrate this new militant working class movement with a gallery exhibition.
DO YOU MAKE ART ABOUT WORKING CLASS STRUGGLE?
We want art that explores themes of rebirth, militancy, and solidarity as they relate to the labor movement.
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UPDATE: We got a lot of feedback when we initially went public with this. It’s a new project for us and we felt it was a way to expand our programming around our annual dinner to have more ways for more people to show up outside of a formal dinner. We have incorporated your feedback and have made some adjustments to be more equitable in how we partner with artists. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to grow. We will now be splitting proceeds from the auction sales 50/50 with artists. There will be an option for artists to donate their proceeds if they wish, but it is not the default, nor is it expected.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are open to artwork in all visual media (2D, 3D, photography, mixed media, digital media, & more).
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Submissions are free of charge. Please only apply with images of works that will be donated. Please include the following in your PDF:
- Your name and email
- Images of up to 4 works that are available for this exhibition, with a maximum of 10 images total to allow for detail images of the work
- Include in each image: title, size, materials, and any special hanging considerations/instructions
- Prices or estimated value of pieces
- Artist Statement 200 words max
Submissions Due: July 29, 2024. Artists will be notified of their acceptance by August 19 2024. Submission form here.
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble & Portland Jobs with Justice Present: Union Makes Us Strong!
Join us for Portland Jobs with Justice’s Annual Summer Solidarity Event, featuring new jazz compositions celebrating today’s labor struggles performed by Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble!
We invite you all to join us:
Thursday July 11th from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Norse Hall (111 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97232)
We will have our usual raffle and food provided!
$50 – Individual Ticket
$150 – 3 tickets and social media shout out
$250 – 5 tickets, social media shout out, feature in PJCE’s digital program
$500 – 10 tickets, all of the above as well as preferred, reserved seating
The venue is ADA accessible. There is street parking in the surrounding blocks.
Contact Jill at jill@jwjpdx.org or Tyler at tyler@jwjpdx.org with any questions
Portland Jobs with Justice Statement of Solidarity with Student Movement for Palestine Liberation.
Portland Jobs With Justice is choosing to stand in total and complete solidarity with the Palestine liberation activists who are pushing Portland State University to divest from Israeli apartheid. As a coalition of more than 100 labor, community, faith, and student organizations, we know that there is power when we come together in unity in our demands for a better world. We are now over six months into a genocide in Gaza, where over 35,000 Palestinians have been killed with weapons and funding from the United States.
Our principles guided us to immediately join the call for a ceasefire, and to take up the demands that have come from our union siblings in the Palestinian labor movement. We have continued to support this effort to create a lasting ceasefire in Israel-Palestine and to push for an end to over seventy-five years of displacement, colonization, and ethnic cleansing, and to build a new future of equality for everyone who lives in the land.
This mission has guided our decision to enthusiastically endorse the student-led encampments happening around the country, where activists are taking up the long-held tradition of college activism as a way of highlighting the complicity many of our educational institutions have in imperialist violence. We intend to continue to support these activists as they fight to maintain an encampment at the university they pay for, and their effort to push PSU to divest from companies profiting off of Palestinian suffering.
We also want to publicly condemn the Portland Police Bureau and other law enforcement agencies who brutally dispersed the encampment and arrested activists, as well as the University President, Ann Cudd, who has ordered this violent attack on the student body. We are joining many community members, tax payers, faculty, and alumni in voicing our outrage, and will join the call for their resignation.
Ultimately, we intend to support the Palestine solidarity movement in the same way that we offer aid to all movements for social justice: we want to unite our community behind a vision for a better world. The first step today is an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the retribution being taken out on activists voicing dissent.
Many Ways to Celebrate May Day 2024: A Roundup
May Day – International Workers Day – Events:
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From PCUN: In the face of ongoing efforts by some factions to undermine the rights and contributions of immigrant communities, we must stand in solidarity with farmworkers who form the backbone of our agricultural sector.
A crucial aspect of recognizing their invaluable contribution is establishing a clear pathway to citizenship. This step would honor the dignity of their work and strengthen our agricultural economy by providing these essential workers with the stability and security they deserve.
Immigration reform is not just an investment in individual lives but a vital step towards ensuring the resilience and sustainability of our agricultural sector for generations to come.
We invite you to join our movement on Wednesday, May 1st, at noon, in front of the Oregon State Capitol to send a message to our federal representatives!
We will gather at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem for a day of impactful community speeches, vital resource booths, and a mighty march around the Capitol Block. Special performance by Gabino Palomares Gómez! RSVP here!
May Day March & Rally
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Celebrate International Workers Day with a March & Rally – Fight for Worker’s and Immigrant’s Rights!
Date: May 1, 2024
Location: Lownsdale Square
Time: 1:00 PM
ONA May Day Info Picket & Rally!
Join nurses outside of Providence Willamette Community Center, to demonstrate unity in the fight for fair contracts. For months, nurses have been at the bargaining table demanding safe staffing, affordable healthcare and market-competitive wages.
4pm: Informational Picket starts at Providence Willamette Falls Community Center (519 15th St Oregon City, OR)
4:30: The picket marches to Clackamas County Courthouse (807 Main St. Oregon City, OR)
5:15: Community Rally
6pm: Head to Corner 14 Food Carts (508 14th St Oregon City, OR)
Wednesday, May 1 from 4 – 6pm
519 15th St, Oregon City, OR
RSVP and Share the Facebook event page here: https://fb.me/e/4obErpXoI
May Day 2024 – Workers Defend Palestinian Resistance
Workers Defend Palestinian Resistance. On this International Workers Day, stand in solidarity with Palestinian workers and demand a Permanent Ceasefire, Complete Withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank, the end of the siege on Gaza, Right of Return for all displaced Palestinians, All for All Prisoner exchange, and the end of the war on workers and oppressed people at home and abroad. Hear from Palestinians, Labor and Workers’ Orgs about how we stand in International Solidarity!
4 – 5PM: Meet up and tabling with community organizations
5 – 6PM: Speakers and Culturals
6 – 7PM: March
SW Market St and SW Park Blocks
What Would You Do with a 32 Hour Week? Portland DSA May Day Mania
UAW Pres Shawn Fain has a plan to win the 32-hour work week! Join Portland DSA on May Day (International Workers’ Day) for an in-person viewing of President Fain’s remarks, where he will lay out a credible plan for a General Strike in 2028. Art build, too!
Then, stick around for a fundraiser & report-back from the PDX delegation to the Labor Notes conference.
RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/may-day-mania-on-to-the-general-strike-2028/
May 1 at Double Mountain Brewery 1700 N Killingsworth St
Gathering at 6pm, program starts at 7:30pm
May Day Union Workers Panel (Note: May 3rd)
Join workers from Burgerville Workers Union, Jobs with Justice, UPS Teamsters, and more, for a May Day Union Workers Panel!
Hosted by Portland Community College Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals (PCCFFAP.)
Friday, May 3rd from 3:30 – 4:30pm at PCC Cascade Student Union Building (5575 N Albina Ave)
Join us in May for the Second meeting of the Portland Workers’ Assembly!
Organizing at a “Progressive” Workplace
Thursday, 5/9 from 7-8:30pm at Augustana Church
Many Portland companies and organizations proudly shout their support for progressive values (when it’s profitable), but those values aren’t always reflected internally. How do those employers’ outward expressions of values complicate worker organizing? Come to our discussion to hear from members of New Seasons Labor Union (NSLU), Portland Community College Federation of Classified Employees (PCCFCE), and a staff organizer from Oregon AFSCME as they relate their experiences. Masks req’d.
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Blogs with Justice
- It’s Time to Stop Capitulating to Big Tech August 5, 2026
- Labor Must Mobilize for the Minneapolis Fifteen July 16, 2026
Blogs with Justice
- It’s Time to Stop Capitulating to Big Tech August 5, 2026
- Labor Must Mobilize for the Minneapolis Fifteen July 16, 2026