Interfaith Worker Justice

Last week, IWJ joined workers at the New Era Cap Company in Mobile, Alabama in a prayer vigil. Workers at the facility voted for union representation with the Teamsters Local 991 earlier this yea...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-day-at-new-era.html

IWJ is partnering with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) on a trailblazing effort involving workers’ rights, Islamic investment law, transnational social justice organizing, and the m...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/11/worker-rights-and-islamic-law.html

As the Iowa primaries near closer, Republican presidential candidates are engaging in heated debates over immigration. Of particular note, the candidates are attacking sanctuary city policies arg...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/11/sanctuary-cities-under-fire.html

Interfaith Worker Justice just became aware of new rules that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) want to propagate in order to help agribusiness hire...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/11/department-of-labor-worsens-plight-of.html

The groups American Rights at Work and Leadership Conference on Civil Rights recently reported on FedEx Ground's misclassification of its drivers as "independent contractors," which denies their ...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/11/fed-up-with-fedex-report-by-american.html

The October 21st New York Times Book Review carried an essay by Alan Wolfe titled "Mobilizing the Religious Left." It's a review of Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Cla...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/kim-bobo-on-alan-wolfe.html

The Nation had an interesting article today about Americans’ steadily increasing workday and workweek. Since health care and other benefits are costing more and more per worker, companies would...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-movement-for-8-hour-day.html

I want to alert readers to the growing climate of fear being perpetrated in Virginia as local officials have gone on an offensive against immigrants. With several counties approving policies to r...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/climate-of-fear-in-virginia.html

The Wall Street Journal isn't high on the list of publications where one would expect to see Interfaith Worker Justice featured prominently. But, sure enough, the October 16 issue carried an arti...

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SSA No Match, heightened immigration enforcement and lax labor law enforcement has created a perfect storm for unscrupulous employers. Ballco is the perfect example of what employers are getting ...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-match-negatively-affects-all-workers.html

On October 11, Interfaith Worker Justice co-hosted an exciting event in Baltimore. Faith and labor leaders, as well as local community groups, gathered at St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in the B...

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On September 24th, IWJ celebrated the 80th birthday of its friend and past Board President Rabbi Robert J. Marx. The celebration dinner was a wonderful occasion. More than a hundred people came t...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/rabbi-marx-documentary-online.html

Some of you may have seen the documentary Made in L.A., a poignant, moving chronicle of the Los Angeles Garment Worker Center’s campaign against the clothing retailer Forever 21, when it aired ...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/powerful-new-documentary-on-immigrant.html

We need a moral crusade. That’s how noted journalist and author Barbara Ehrenreich approached ending the poverty of low-wage workers in the U.S. At a recent event at the Economic Policy Institu...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/we-need-moral-crusade.html

Anti-immigrant sentiment is running high in Simi Valley, California, located about 100 miles north of Los Angeles County. On Wednesday, October 3, 2007, Mayor Paul Miller sent a letter to U.S. Se...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/sanctuary-struggle-in-california-town.html

Today’s New York Times editorial, “Stop the Raids,” brings attention to an immigrant enforcement system that terrorizes communities and families while doing nothing to increase public safet...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/10/immigration-raids-out-of-control.html

IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo wrote a letter to the editor in response to a September 26 Chicago Tribune editorial titled “Striking Failure” but the newspaper chose not to publish it. (Whil...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/09/uaw-gm-more-holistic-perspective.html

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been talking to some folks in Mobile, Alabama, about a campaign by 111 workers at a factory owned by New Era Cap Company. The workers organized a union in respon...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/09/workers-organize-in-mobile.html

On August 29th, our Executive Director, Kim Bobo, attended the annual shareholders meeting of Smithfield Foods, the largest hog processing plant in the world -- whose hugely controversial labor p...

http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/2007/09/forthcoming.html