Kentucky Jobs with Justice
Kentucky Jobs with Justice is a broad-based coalition of community groups, faith-based organizations and labor unions united to promote, protect and improve the quality of life of all workers by empowering individuals and organizations to engage in collective action for economic and social justice.
KY JwJ was founded in 1992 when community and church activists joined to support UNITE! in a fight for fair contract for workers against Louisville Manufacturing. KY JwJ has since grown to a coalition of more than 50 organizational members and 1800 individual activists who have pledged to "be there five times for someone else's fight as well as my own.[1]
KYJwJ Leadership
Kentucky Jobs with Justice leadership, as of 2014;
Executive Director - Bonifacio Aleman
Board of Directors
- Thomas Pearce, Co-Chair, Beyond Coal Campaign, Kentucky Sierra Club
- Robert Smith, Co-Chair, SEIU 32BJ NCFO
- Tammy Berlin, Secretary, Jefferson County Teachers Association
- Jackie Floyd, Treasurer, Community
- Harold Embry, UFCW Local 227
- Lillian Williamson, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Donald Duncan, Community
- Bryan Burns, Community/Student
- Bill Londrigan, KY AFL-CIO
- John Paul Wright, Community
- Lawrence Winburn, Jr., LiUNA Local 576[2]
Pushback Network
As at April 12, 2010, the following served on the Pushback Network Steering Committee:[3]
- Chair: Robby Rodriguez, SouthWest Organizing Project, NM
- Vice Chair: Sondra Youdelman, Community Voices Heard, NY
- Secretary: Rudy Gonzalves, California Alliance, CA
- Treasurer: Leroy Johnson, Southern Echo, MS
- Hill Carmichael, Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL
- Scott Douglas, Greater Birmingham Ministries, AL
- Kimble Forrister, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, AL
- Darnell Johnson,Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY
- Burt Lauderdale, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY
- Mike Sayer, Southern Echo, MS
- Anthony Thigpenn, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, CA
- William Weahkee, Director, SAGE Council, NM
- Lisa Abbott, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, KY
- Bineshi Albert, SouthWest Organizing Project, SAGE NM
- Presdelane Harris, Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, AL
- Attica Scott, Kentucky Jobs with Justice, KY
- Henry Serrano, New York Jobs with Justice, NY
- Karla Zombro, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, CA
Action Lines
Jobs with Justice Kentucky Chapter July 19, 2014.
Have you picked up your copy of Action Lines -Summer 2014 edition (our newsletter)?
HINT: you can pick up copies on Monday, July 21st at Smokey's Bean between 7am-5pm!.
- SocialJustice — with David O'Brien Suetholz, John Paul Wright, DeeAnn Flaherty, Brent McKim, Barbie Helton, Tia Kurtisnger-Edison, Brian O'Neill, Tammy Berlin, Alicia Hurle, Jackie Floyd, Emma Dill, Lillian Williamson, Will Emmons, Sarah Zarantonello, Michele Hemenway, Shantii Waybrieal, Larry Hovekamp, Sandy Balsley Mayes, Donald Duncan, Jennifer R. Jewell, Pam Newman, Betty Jean Parsons Johnson, Teresa McGeeney, Becki Winchel, Dave Nothere, Debi Baldwin, Barbara Boyd, Erica Wilen O'Brien, Richard Becker, Robert Smith, SayRah Wilburn-Clark, Thomas Edward Pearce, Sarah Garrett, Netra Edwards, Jaison Ashley Gardner, Harold Embry, Neal Cotton, Eliot Zellers, Voting Rights for Former Felons - Kentucky and Service Workers for Justice.[4]
#HealthyStart
October 10, 2014; ·
- #Louisville's #HealthyStart program functions primarily in #WestLouisville, serving over 8,000 families in the past 16 years, lowering the infant mortality rate to 7.4% (compared to a rate of 14.4% of non-participants in the areas served).
- We need your help to save the program today!!
bit.ly/starthealthy... See More — with Pam Pirrmann Brunner, Sandy Balsley Mayes, Christina Gaines, Siglinde Perry, Jaison Ashley Gardner, Corinsa Smith, SayRah Wilburn-Clark, Khalilah Veneable Collins, Ebony O'Rea, Mikal Forbush, Dave Robertson, Ellie Kerstetter, Chris Nichols, Shameka Parrish, Jessie Potish Whitish, Mark Irwin, Chanelle Helm, Rahel Neirene, Pastor Aletha Sweatt Fields, Lauren Adams Ogden, Janice Rucker, Stephanie Pearce Burke, Quaniqua Carthan, Howard Owens, Pam Newman, Darryl Ju'an Young, Jr., Emma Dill, Wesley Stover, Jackie Floyd, Eboni Nc, Elisabeth Michelle, Salīm Mujahid Islam, Erica Wilen O'Brien, Jamieca Jones, Neal Cotton, Doanta Davis, Maureen Bacon, Chyna Cg Pro Johnson, Becki Winchel, Bonifacio Aleman, Nicole Aghaaliandastjerdi, Adrienne von Irvine, Netra Edwards, Cheketa Tinsley, David Lott, Noelle Tennis Gulden, Michael R. Hicks, Lavel D. White and Barbie Helton.