At the time of our 2025 Spring Match, the so-called Big Beautiful Bill was not yet law, and LIJWJ was fighting alongside many other Long Islanders in stating our unequivocal opposition to the bill. Despite numerous visits to the offices of our local elected officials and other demonstrations at healthcare facilities across Long Island, the call by a majority of Long Islanders to vote against the bill was ignored by many of our representatives.

Now in 2026 our already struggling communities are facing a total disruption or outright removal of their healthcare. Leading the opposition to this austerity are workers across Long Island, especially in the healthcare sector represented by 1199 SEIU and NYSNA. The nurses, technicians, and all workers who contribute to the care of patients know better than anyone what patients need.

They also see firsthand how our healthcare system centered around profit generation is failing to provide the level of care our communities deserve. A system where healthcare executives make seven figure salaries while working Long Islanders delay or don’t seek care because it’s too expensive is not a just one, and we can do so much better.

Long Island Jobs With Justice is dedicated to centering these workers and amplifying their voices. If all the administrators, executives, and others occupying the upper levels of the top-heavy healthcare industry were to all quit their jobs tomorrow, workers could and would keep our hospitals running and caring for patients. We can do without the bosses, but we absolutely cannot do without workers.

With this knowledge and these convictions around economic justice and worker power, Long Island Jobs With Justice will continue joining healthcare workers in demanding what our communities deserve.  

Today is the perfect day to contribute what you can to help us continue this work, and through May 22 your donation will be DOUBLED!  

Click here to donate now!

In solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

Celebrate International Workers’ Day by joining the ICE OUT of Long Island March For Humanity on May 1st!  

“The Heart of Long Island is Under Attack.

This International Workers’ Day— a day rooted as much in global struggle as it is in solidarity, the Village of Hempstead is calling on communities from Long Island to New York City and beyond to join the ICE Out of Long Island: March for Humanity mobilization.

May Day is about workers, immigrants, organizers, and everyday people coming together to demand dignity, safety, and fair treatment. That history is not separate from this moment, but rather a continuation. Today, the same forces that exploit labor and divide communities are fueling fear and enforcement in places like Hempstead.

Stand with us— be it for the general strike, a day of no shopping, in defense of democracy, the end of ceaseless detentions, deportations, and U.S. instigated wars, the demand for dignity of our workers, unions, and immigrants—the very backbone of our society, resonates across our interconnected struggles. International Worker’s Day reminds us that this fight belongs to all of us.”

We hope to see you at the march or out there not shopping or working!

In solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

It is spring once again! As nature emerges from the frigid winter, Long Island Jobs with Justice is emerging too by launching another Spring Match campaign to help sustain and protect our work in the year ahead!  

Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, we have secured $10,000 of matching funds for this campaign, meaning every dollar you donate will be DOUBLED until we hit $10,000! Be one of the first donors and help start us off STRONG by heading to this link now!

We’re well into a new year and, like all years in recent memory, 2026 is turning up the dial on injustice. Our current times are fraught with uncertainty, dread, and deepening disillusionment towards the systems and institutions that have brought us here. Most headlines these days are indeed very grim, but look closer to home and you will find glimmers of hope.  

Moments like these really highlight the importance of our communities and the collective power they have to support and protect one another. Across Long Island people are organizing against the brutality of our current regime in their workplaces, legislatures, and in the streets. We hope that the tragedies of today will revive the vigor and solidarity that led workers to great victories in the past, and believe that only workers united in common cause for justice can bring the change we need. We are dedicated to fueling and fostering worker power as an organization!

But LIJWJ cannot do its part to help build the workers’ movement without funding. Donate now to our 2026 Spring Match at whatever level you’re able and help us get this fundraiser started! Whether it’s $5, $10, or $100 your donation will be DOUBLED during the match period. If you can donate $5 it will turn into $10, and there is also the option to become a sustaining donor!

Building worker power takes all of us! Become a sustaining donor with a monthly gift at whatever level works for you. Just $5 a month adds up to $60 a year, and thanks to this match, that becomes $120! Your monthly support helps us build the stability and steady people-powered resources we need to move into 2027 stronger and ready to keep growing the workers’ movement.

Your donation to the 2026 Spring Match will help LIJWJ get boots on the ground when workers strike. It will help us continue the behind-the-scenes coalition building and project management we do. The match period ends on May 22, but no need to put off donating until then!

In solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

Long Island Jobs With Justice is reviving its Workers’ Rights Board this spring! Our last board convened in 2024 to document the struggles of local Starbucks workers and formed a base of community supporters who have joined workers to demand justice on picket lines, shop floors, and corporate executive offices. Now in 2026, we are focusing on a significant source of wealth extraction from Long Island – school construction projects.

For generations, school construction projects on Long Island created a strong foundation of union jobs that offered good wages and stable employment that helped families build a solid middle-class life. But over the last decade something has changed.
Weak enforcement of wage laws and poor oversight of school construction have allowed bad contractors to exploit workers, steal from the community and jeopardize the safety of our schools. Our communities deserve better!

This Workers’ Rights Board public hearing will receive testimony on wage theft, unsafe conditions, fraud, and the urgent need for accountability in our school construction.Testimonies will be received by our Workers’ Rights Board Commissioners:

• Mary Anne Trasciatti, Director, Labor Studies Hofstra University
• Charlene Obernauer, Executive Director, NY Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
• Richard S. Haase, President, Half Hollow Hills Teachers Association

Join us in witness and get in on the ground floor of a community effort to restore jobs, justice, and quality construction for our public schools! Click the flyer above or use this link to register!

Hope to see you there!

For generations, school construction projects on Long Island created a strong foundation of union jobs that offered good wages and stable employment that helped families build a solid middle-class life. Those jobs supported local workers, local businesses, and our communities as a whole.

But over the last decade something has changed.

Weak enforcement of wage laws and poor oversight of school construction projects have opened the door for law breaking contractors to win more local work, forcing responsible contractors out of the process and jeopardizing the well-being of our schools. In some cases, contractors are committing wage and insurance fraud, evading taxes, cutting corners on materials, and stealing from taxpayers. In fact, more than a dozen school districts have seen contractors arrested for fraud, wage theft, and shoddy building. Learn more here and see if your community has been affected.

At the end of the day, workers lose out, our community’s tax dollars are wasted, and the safety of our children, teachers and school staff are put at risk.

Our communities deserve better!

School boards control how millions of our local tax dollars are spent and those decisions directly affect the safety of our schools. When residents show up and speak out, it can shape the outcome.

That’s why we’re urging Long Island residents to show up at school board meetings to speak up for responsible construction practices, fair wages for workers, good use of taxpayer dollars, and safe schools for our community.

If you’d like to learn more about how you can get involved and stand with others to protect our community from exploitative contractors, join a community briefing on Wednesday, March 18th from 6-7pm, discussing how we can put an end to corruption and exploitation in school construction on Long Island. Register here.

Hope to see you there!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

See the flyer below for information on how to join others to build community and strengthen our movement in the face of escalating ICE terror! Stand alongside the Long Island Immigrant Justice Alliance this Sunday February 8 at 3PM in Freeport and dress warm!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

In the struggle against the horrific actions of ICE there are many ways to resist. On Wednesday February 4 at 7PM the Long Island Immigration Justice Alliance (LIIJA) is hosting a training for those looking to advocate for an agenda of state bills that will help keep our communities safe. Click here or the flyer below to register!

We hope to see you there!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice