Don’t be fooled!  Vote NO!

Find out more information about this misleading proposition HERE!

Download Flyers to help educate friends, family, and your network HERE and HERE!

Take the Pledge to Vote NO on Proposition C!

For more information and to get an email that you can forward to your contacts email Amy Smoucha amy@mojwj.org .

Reducing service would weaken the United States Postal Service’s ability to serve every American at an inexpensive, uniform rate, and could eventually lead to privatization. Millions of Americans could no longer rely on Saturday delivery  to receive prescriptions, checks, or other important mail and outside couriers could step in and require anyone that needed something delivered on a Saturday to be charged more.

Tell your Representative to Save Saturday Service.

Read more about the picket HERE and HERE

Initially Pinnacle refused to negotiate transfers or priority hiring at their other two locations for 220 employees.It’s time for Pinnacle Entertainment to stand up and be a responsible employer to its workers and the community.

Tell them to keep their promises made to the President Casino workers!

Come rally with UNITE HERE Local 74, St. Louis Area Jobs with Justice, Community leaders, and workers to tell Pinnacle to be responsible to their workers and the community!

 "DO THE RIGHT THING" RALLY

Monday, June 28, 2010

5:00 PM

The President Casino

For more information go to www.ShameOnPinnacle.org

2010 sees both good news and bad news for Missouri workers on the November 2010 ballot.

• The GOOD NEWS the so-called "Save Our Secret (SOS) Ballot" initiative failed to turn in signatures to qualify this anti-democratic initiative for the ballot. Read more
• The BAD NEWS is that the Millionaire Tax Cut – the Earnings Tax initiative did turn in enough signatures that it will likely qualify for the November 2010 statewide ballot. Read more about this reckless threat to essential public services in our state’s two biggest economic centers.

Find out more about these initiatives and what they mean to Missouri.

In 2006, 76.4% of Missourians voted to pass Proposition B to raise the wage for ALL Missouri workers of ALL ages.

Don’t let the Missouri State House of Representatives vote to overturn the will of the voters!

Visit this page if you are 18 and Under and want to tell the Missouri Legislature "Don’t cut my wages"

Visit this page if you are Over 18 and want to tell the Missouri Legislature "Cutting wages based on age is unfair"

Young workers are important leaders in Jobs with Justice and the workers’ rights movement in Missouri.   Have their back!  Stand up against the attack on minimum wage for workers under 20.

Find out more about this campaign on www.FairWagesForMOTeens.org and Follow us on facebook by joining the cause "Missouri Jobs with Justice" and the group "Fair Wages for Missouri Teens"

Yesterday, by a vote of 219-212, the US House of Representatives passed historic health care reform.  The measure will soon be signed into law by the President.

Final legislation reduces the deficit, expands health coverage to 32 million Americans, strengthens Medicare and Medicaid, and makes health coverage more affordable for all of us!

Now it’s time to call Congressmen Carnahan and Clay at 1-866-922-4970 to tell them THANK YOU for voting for Health Care Reform!

Our work in Missouri ensuring that reform is implemented is beginning already, and we will need your help to bring this victory home.  DONATE to Jobs with Justice health care organizing project to shore up our resources for the state fight.

JOIN US for a CELEBRATION tonight, Monday, 3/22 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street, downtown St. Louis.

http://www.schlafly.com/map.taproom.html

To RSVP or for more information contact Amy Smoucha amy@mojwj.org

Cutting the earnings tax, eliminating over one-third of the budget,  would result in cuts that would make the city less safe and would force a hike in sales and property taxes. Jobs with Justice Leader Martin Rafanan spoke at the press conference today emphasizing "The increase in sales taxes that would likely be imposed to make up for the lost revenue from the elimination of the earnings tax would shift a disproportionate burden onto the backs of lower and working class citizens"

This effort is also targeting Kansas City’s earnings tax and passage of these repeals would cripple the economies of two of the major economic centers of the state.

Read more about the press conference in the news HERE, HERE, HERE,

To find out more about United for Missouri’s Priorities visit www.unitedformissourispriorities.org

(In 2009 Missouri Jobs with Justice sent 13 servers to Jefferson City to stop the bill that threaten the minimum wage for servers. Pictured to the right)

 In 2006, 76.4% of Missourians voted to pass Proposition B to raise the wage for ALL Missouri workers, including tipped employees.

Now, Senate Bill 889 threatens to roll back the minimum wage for tipped employees to that of 16 years ago.

We must act NOW! Tell the Missouri State Senate that the citizens of Missouri want to protect the wages of 53,240 tipped employees.

We need you to TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW:

1) Tell your Senator that you support waiters and waitresses and oppose Senate Bill 889

2) Tell your friends

3) Make whatever donation you can to make sure Jobs with Justice and its leaders can help servers throughout Missouri protect their minimum wage

4) Join the "Save Our Tips" Facebook group and stay informed

Find out more about this campaign.

There will be two sessions this year.
 

Spring session will be Friday, March 12 through Sunday, March 14 in Kansas City, MO.

Fall session will be Friday, September 10 through Sunday, September 12 in St. Louis, MO.

REGISTER TODAY

Missouri’s Building Jobs with Justice Leadership Development Program provides leaders insight into organizing’s key concepts and skills. Community organizing principles, as first articulated and carried out by Saul Alinsky in Chicago, encouraged leaders to act together to create powerful organizations and win on issues they care about. Registration deadline for the spring session is February 12, 2010. Registration forms can be submitted online HERE  or mailed to the JwJ office using the form in the brochure HERE.

Participants move through a series of sessions including such topics as: building relationships, understanding power, the meaning and understanding of self interest, issues and actions, and creating winnable campaigns. This training builds a stronger, more powerful movement for Jobs with Justice in Missouri.