Central Indiana JwJ is an organization of labor, faith-based, community, and student organizations and individuals building a broad and long-term coalition to support worker rights and social justice. We are building a movement...More 

I am for living wages, health care for ALL, fair trade, immigrant rights, global justice, fair wages, safe working conditions, equal pay, unions, Worker POWER, corporate accountability, climate justice, green jobs, racial EQUALITY, student power, refugee rights, public transportation, job security, International Solidarity, organizing the unorganized, and JOBS WITH JUSTICE. 

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Central Indiana Jobs with Justice is seeking a part-time organizer to manage the day to day activities of the Coalition.  Click Here for a full job description and application instructions.  

Stand with CWA and IBEW members on Strike at Verizon
Central Indiana Jobs with Justice is organizing picket lines outside of select Indianapolis Verizon Wireless Stores. 

45,000 Verizon workers went on strike on Sunday, August 7th.  The reason? Despite record profits, Verizon is refusing to bargain and is demanding that its workers add to those profits from their own pockets.  In the last four years alone, Verizon made more than $19 billion in profits and compensated their top five executives more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

But apparently that’s not enough.  Starting on June 22 Verizon pushed proposals that would let them outsource more jobs, including sending jobs overseas, slash sick days, eliminate benefits for workers who get hurt on the job and cut the healthcare benefits they promised retirees. And they haven’t budged.

So on Sunday, 45,000 CWA and IBEW members decided to take a stand to force Verizon to abandon its Wisconsin-style tactics and come to the bargaining table and negotiate.

America has had enough of corporate greed. Now is the time for Verizon to do the right thing and come to the bargaining table in good faith instead of trying to kill the American dream for 45,000 middle-class workers.

Sign the petition now to tell Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam to stop Verizon’s attack on the middle class and share his company’s success with those who made it possible.  It's time to let Verizon and other greedy corporations know that enough is enough.  We're not just going to "hold the line", we're going to MOVE the line!



JwJ Turns 10!!!

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Upcoming Events

Friday, December 2nd
6:00 p.m.
10th Annual Scrooge Party
Tickets are $20 each, or a table of 10 for $180.  More details here.

Wednesday, December 14th
2011 Scrooge Award Presentation
details to be announced

Friday, December 16th
Sound Judgment Seminar/Lunch
Hosted by Common Cause
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Ongoing Fights

Challenging The Corporate Agenda
The movement for social justice and economic justice takes place within a society where powerful interests are constantly seeking to take control of public policy to create a world that raises money over the well-being of people and protects their profits and narrow interests.  Jobs with Justice helps people understand how this "corporate agenda" opposes our values, organizes to secure its self-interest and how it impacts both working people and the Jobs with Justice mission.  The corporate agenda also utilizes government, the media, socio-economic security and religion to feed working people narratives that divide us, to keep us insecure so that we will work in ever more slave-like and unjust conditions that elevate profits over people and prevent us from exercising our values. 

For years we have been fighting for health care for all, that includes protests in front of the WellPoint headquarters on Monument Circle, visits with Senator Bayh and his staff, rallies to thank Congressman Carson for his fight for health care, letters to the editor, and education of the community.

Worker Rights:  Central Indiana Jobs with Justice is currently supporting the hotel workers, Marsh employees, janitors and security officers in their efforts to organize a union in their workplace - as well as the library workers fighting to keep their jobs with impending lay-offs in the budget crisis.  This means we call on management, attend and organize demonstrations, write letters to the editors and form special campaign teams to strategize how the community can get organized and WIN!

BOYCOTT HYATT.  On Monday, September 20, 2010, Jobs with Justice stood with the workers of Hyatt Regency Downtown Indianapolis, as they called a Boycott of Hyatt.  Please do not Eat, Sleep or Meet at the Hyatt until they recognize the workers' request for neutrality in deciding whether or not they want a union.

Social Justice:  Put Communities First.  Our elected officials should be putting the needs of the community over the influence of corporate greed.  Recently we told Mayor Ballard and the City County Council, "Put Communities First over Millionaires."  

In the last quarter of 2010, Central Indiana Jobs with Justice almost got more media coverage than during the entire health care reform fight.  Why?  Because the community is taking more and more action against local government.  Dozens packed the small hearing room and drew media coverage to the Municipal Corporations Committee meeting on September 27^th to protest Mayor Ballard’s $1.5 million gift to the Simons.  The Simon family got a new scoreboard for their Pacers team, while library workers will see pink slips.

JwJ drew media again on October 6^th, with their protest at the Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) meeting.  These daytime meetings frequently go unnoticed and unattended even though the MDC is responsible for millions of tax payer dollars.  Despite testimony from JwJ members like Pastor Richard Willoughby, Professor Tom Marvin, and student intern Mary Kate Dugan, the MDC approved $600,000 for Mayor Ballard’s Bridge to Nowhere, 9-0, another gift benefiting the Simons.  One of the MDC Commissioners admitted they looked like fools approving this project, but claimed state statute regulates their spending.  “We know,” said Becky Smith, Community Organizer for Unite HERE and JwJ leader, “that is why we will be supporting state legislation in January to change the way they City does business.”

The MDC is an appointed board with no accountability to the tax payers - something Central Indiana JwJ seeks to change over the long term.

At a time when the libraries are cutting hours and laying off workers, and IndyGo is deciding which bus routes stay and which ones go, the City should not be giving millions of dollars to the Simons who are already billionaires.  The taxpayers of

Marion County cannot afford these gifts, but on October 25th, the City County Councill will vote to approve a $10 million gift from the Mayor to the Simons, and Central Indiana Jobs with Justice will be there taking action for working families.  For more information on the Put Communities First Campaign, visit www.centralindianajwj.org or call (317) 917-0723 x33.