Interfaith Worker Justice
Mission
Interfaith Worker Justice is a national network that calls upon religious values to improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers by educating and organizing present and future religious leaders, interfaith coalitions and workers centers.
IWJ envisions the religious community, acting on its values in creative and strategic ways, as a powerful leader in creating and sustaining a nation where all workers share in the prosperity of our society, enjoy the fundamental human right to organize, and lead dignified lives as a result of their labor.
Ruling year
1996
Principal Officer
Ms. Kim Bobo
Main address
1020 W Bryn Mawr Ave 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60660
Formerly known as
National Interfaith Committee on Worker Justice
EIN
36-4063982
NTEE code
Labor Unions/Organizations (J40)
Civil Rights, Social Action, and Advocacy N.E.C. (R99)
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Organizing and Advocacy Campaigns
IWJ launched its Stop Wage Theft Campaign in 2009 in response to the outcry against the illegal and immoral crime of stealing wages from workers. Wage theft affects millions of workers, especially those in low-wage jobs. Over the last two years, IWJ has gotten the issue of wage theft on the national agenda by educating and mobilizing denominational and faith leaders, labor union, workers centers, attorney organizations, worker rights, civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations, policy leaders, media and student groups. Visit www.iwj.org/index.cfm/wage-theft for more information on the campaign.With unemployment rates at an all-time high, IWJ is organizing religious and denominational leaders to provide prophetic vision on the crisis of the long-term unemployment crisis. So far, IWJ has put together web-based resources for congregations to assist unemployed workers and families. IWJ also supports legislation to extend unemployment insurance and to create jobs.
IWJ's Immigration Reform Program engages low-wage workers all over the country in a grassroots campaign to support rational, just and moral immigration reform.
Technical Assistance and Training
Interfaith Worker Justice provides technical assistance and training to affiliated religion-labor groups and workers' centers within its network. This work helps build affiliates, which in turn increases their ability to fight the root causes of workplace injustice, poverty and hunger at the local level. To learn more about IWJ's network, visit www.iwj.org/template/page.cfm?id=140
Student Programs
Since its inception, Interfaith Worker Justice has worked to provide ways for undergraduate and graduate students to engage in worker justice issues through its summer internship programs.
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Interfaith Worker Justice
Board of directorsas of 06/12/2012
Bishop Gabino Zavala
Archdioces of Los Angeles
Edie Rasell
United Church of Christ
Bennie Whiten Jr.
United Church of Christ
Jim Sessions
United Methodist Church
Ros Pelles
AFL-CIO
Jill Jacobs
Jewish Funds for Justice
Darren Cushman-Wood
Speedway United Methodist Church
Hussam Ayloush
Council on American-Islamic Relations - Southern California
Charles Amjad-Ali
Luther Seminary
Jules Bernstein
Bernstein & Lipsett, P.C.
Jennifer Butler
Faith in Public Life
Phil Cubeta
The American College
Tasa Hassane
Islamic Center of San Diego
John Hill
General Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church
Arlene Holt-Baker
AFL-CIO
John Howard
Ignatian Spirituality Project
Daryl Ingram
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Chris Johnson
Episcopal Church Center
Jarvis Johnson
New Prospect Family Praise and Worship Center
Abdool Khan
Islamic Society of North America
Ken Brooker Langston
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Susan Leslie
Unitarian Universalist Association
Leonard Lovett
Church of God in Christ
Joseph McCartin
Georgetown University
Aaron McEmrys
Unitarian Universalist Association
Jean Miller
Sisters of Charity
Todd O'Malley
O'Malley & Langan Law Offices
Mary Priniski
Catholic Committee of the South
Frank Raines
Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church
Ibrahim Ramey
Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation
Kathy Saile
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Martha Scott
United Methodist Church
Elena Segura
Archdioces of Chicago
Paul Sherry
United Church of Christ
Rosalind Spigel
Jewish Labor Committee
Charles Whitaker
Northwestern University
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