Celebrate 10 years of victories with St. Louis Jobs with Justice
Buy your tickets today!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
at 6PM
at IBEW Local 1, 5850 Elizabeth, 63110
Keynote Speaker State Treasurer and Teamster Clint Zweifel
Join St. Louis Jobs with Justice as we celebrate 10 years of key victories for economic justice and workers rights.
Tickets available now! $25 each, Table of 8 for $200. Available online or call 314.644.0466.
Click HERE to view the 10th Anniversary invitation and the list of Host Committee members.
Ticket price includes dinner featuring the Missouri Rural Crisis Center’s Patchwork Family Farms Pork (vegetarian and non-pork meat options also available) and cash bar.
All attendees will receive a 2010 St. Louis JwJ 10th Anniversary Wall Calendar and an ad book. If you are interested in being included in the ad book please contact Jessica Pace, info@stl-jwj.org.
Can’t join us? Please consider sending a contribution in honor of the work JwJ’s leaders and activists accomplished over the last 10 years.
Donations can be mailed to 2725 Clifton, 63139 or ONLINE
All 10th Anniversary donors will be recognized in the event’s program.
Missouri Jobs with Justice Workers’ Rights Board released a national report today that raises concerns about donor safety and the security of the nation’s blood supply at the country’s largest supplier of blood and blood products. Members of the Workers’ Rights Board also hand delivered the reports to the St. Louis Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Jobs with Justice joined Health Care for America Now (HCAN), GRO - Grass Roots Organizing, ACORN, and Missouri ProVote outside of the offices of Wellpoint Anthem in downtown St. Louis to expose the abuses of big insurance companies.
The Missouri delegation includes: Jerry King, St. Louis Workers Rights Board and real estate developer; Christine Grande, Human Rights Office of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph; Rhonda Perry, a family farmer from Howard County and the Missouri Rural Crisis Center as well as JwJ State Board member; and Linda Meyer, former reporter of the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis. Meyer was part of leading a union organizing campaign at the Suburban Journals that illustrates perfectly the need for the Employee Free Choice Act.
Throughout Missouri, grassroots community, faith and labor leaders have come together to form a powerful statewide
On Sunday, August 9 workers from the Lumiere and President Casinos had reason to stand tall as they learned the National Labor Relations board handed down a scathing ruling against their employer, Pinnacle Entertainment. The rulings call on Pinnacle to finally begin bargaining with the workers’ union, Workers United Local 74. The workers and their union had an “all star” cast of support on hand, including actor Danny Glover (pictured here). Also on hand were members of the St. Louis Workers Rights board, elected officials and area union leaders from throughout the labor movement.
On Wednesday, July 29 We told Gov. Nixon "Don’t Cut Jobs and Services!"



