Community Justice

In addition to organizing community support for workplace justice, Missouri Jobs with Justice works to engage labor organizations in community issues that affect working familes. We work on a range of social justice campaigns: from immigrant rights to healthcare; from living wage campaigns to criminal justice reform; from farmworker justice to welfare reform.

This Spring, Jobs with Justice teamed up with the WECAN Coalition to stop Ward Connerly's anti-civil rights ballot initiative in Missouri. Statewide, Jobs with Justice trained dozens of volunteers to become "voter educators" that would comb the streets of their communities to find petition gatherers. Once found, they would stand alongside the petition gatherer and make sure voters knew exactly what the deceptively-named "Missouri Civil Rights Initiative" would really do to Missouri. Local volunteers logged hundreds of hours next to petitioners, who often gave up signature gathering once they encountered one of our educators. For more on the WECAN coalition and the campaign, see http://wecanmo.org/.