LIJWJ Awards Dinner Announcement!

Mark you calendars for LIJWJ’s annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday, September 17 from 6 – 830PM at Captain Bill’s in Bay Shore! We’ll have honoree announcements and link for tickets and sponsorships next week. Stay tuned!

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Deportation Vigil

Thank you to all who joined the Deportation Vigil last week in Huntington Station from a diverse array of faith traditions to unite in support of our immigrant neighbors terrorized by ICE. Central to the LI faith community’s opposition to ICE’s cruel and immoral actions is a joint statement which reads:

“As people of faith, we denounce, we condemn, the current United States mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, many of whom have fled extreme violence and poverty in their native lands. We are a nation of immigrants. Many of our ancestors fled similar conditions and upon arrival here worked hard to give their families a new life, building railroads and businesses, working in factories and farms, schools and hospitals. Immigration is the great and inspiring story of this nation.”

Here is the statement in its entirety, signed by almost 200 Long Island clergy and other faith leaders.

To read more about the vigil, here are links to Newsday’s and News12’s coverage of the event.

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Workers United NY/NJ Regional Joint Board is Hiring!

The position is Bilingual English-Spanish Worksite Organizer based, in New York City, NY.  

“The New York New Jersey Regional Joint Board of Workers United is a Union dedicated to improving the experience of working people through developing militant shop leadership and ambitious new organizing. The labor movement is at a key point where workers, across the country and in many different industries, are taking bold action and winning big. At the same time, our movement is also up against enormous obstacles, and our Union is working to forge a new path by prioritizing new leadership among our members and organizing consistently to build power and win.

The Bilingual Worksite Organizer will work in a variety of industries side-by-side with worker leaders and assigned staff. This work will include shops negotiating improvements in established contracts and shops that will be working to win ambitious first contracts.”

Here is the link with all the details.  Please share with anyone you know who may be interested!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice