Colorado Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor, community, faith and student groups that come together in the struggle for social and economic justice with a focus on worker justice. COJWJ works to advance the rights of ALL working people and empower communities to work together for positive social change. Colorado Jobs with Justice is a long-term, formal coalition of labor, community, faith, and student and youth organizations that come together to advance workers’ rights and social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families. COJWJ is one of the oldest of the more than forty local, autonomous chapters of the Jobs with Justice network, which has a twenty-five year history of fighting for working families and their communities. Across the network, Jobs with Justice works on a range of issues from labor law reform to healthcare, from organizing campaigns to immigrant rights. In Colorado, they focus on those places where other social justice issues overlap with economic justice.
Accomplishments (Released Two Reports):
Study of Colorado’s Care Economy.
Worker’s Rights Board Hearing.
Campaigns & Current Work:
Fight for 15: Raising the minimum wage.
Fair Chance Campaign: fight to end employment discrimination.