RSVP for LIJWJ’s 2025 Awards Dinner Here!

We’re just about a week away and time is running out to secure your spot at the 2025 LIJWJ Awards Dinner!  As of this email we’ve raised $40,850.00 of our $45,000 goal, which is amazing! We’re really close to our goal, and your ticket purchase, sponsorship, or donation can help us reach the finish line!  Be sure to join us to connect with others, celebrate our honorees and experience an energizing, movement-strengthening, and worker-centered evening.

To hear about the importance of LIJWJ’s coalition building around transparency and accountability in school construction, check out this video of 2025 honorees Assem. Michaelle Solages and Vinny Alu!  

And help us reach our $45,000 fundraising goal by getting your tickets now using this link!

Emergency Call on Recent Supreme Court Decision! Tonight at 7PM EST!

From our friends at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (register here):

“The Supreme Court has lifted a lower court order that had temporarily halted the Trump Administration’s terrorizing raids in Los Angeles. The decision paves the way for racial profiling, false arrests, and unchecked violence against immigrant workers.

Join us for an emergency national call to organize, strategize, and mobilize.

We must protect our communities and hold the line where the courts have failed. Immigrant workers need solidarity—not tomorrow, but TODAY.

The call will include:

1. Updates from the ground in Los Angeles
2. Legal and policy analysis
3. Testimony from impacted workers
4. Concrete steps for action

Spanish interpretation will be available.

The whole system is failing. But we must not.”

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

LIJWJ Awards Dinner Announcement!

Tickets and sponsorships are now available for LIJWJ’s annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday, September 17 from 6 – 830PM at Captain Bill’s in Bay Shore! We’re very excited to announce our first honorees Vincent Alu, Business Manager of Laborers 66, and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages. There will be more TBA and we’ll be featuring spotlights on the amazing work each of our honorees does for LI in the coming weeks. In the meantime, head to this link to reserve your spot now!

Petition for Public Officials to Stand Against ICE on Long Island

Despite huge outcries from across LI, ICE is only increasing its brutal campaign of fear and brutal abductions. In response, leaders in LI’s immigrant community have organized petitions to LI’s congressional delegation and numerous Nassau County agencies and officials in response to the surge in ICE activity that is terrorizing our communities.

Below are links to ad your name to the petitions to join a growing chorus of Long Islanders standing for justice, including 215 LI faith leaders who have signed on to a joint letter condemning ICE’s actions.

Petition to LI’s Congressional Delegation

Petition to Nassau County Agencies & Officials

Starbucks Sip-In in Oceanside

LI Starbucks workers are once again calling for community support, this time in Oceanside where an election will take place at the end of the month. Showing your support is as simple as visiting the store, ordering a drink with the name Union Strong, leaving a cash tip, and hanging out for a while to let the workers know you stand with them. The sip in will be happening between 12 and 4PM this Saturday July 27th.

If you plan on attending please let us know by emailing kpfalzer.lijwj@gmail.com!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

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!

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.

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

ICE is terrorizing our immigrant friends and neighbors. With our local governments and representatives silent or openly supporting their campaign of fear and violence, it is left to community members to stand up. On Tuesday July 1 at Gloria Dei Church in Huntington Station, we hope you’ll join LI faith leaders in a peaceful demonstration of solidarity.

Here is the statement, signed by 182 Long Island clergy and other faith leaders as of this morning, which will be read at the vigil.

We hope to see you there.

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

LIJWJ’s Spring Match Campaign Was a Huge Success!!

We did it! The last of our donations arrived in the mail (thank you to our postal workers!) and we are so grateful and excited to have met our goal and raised a total of $40,018!!  We’ll be sure to let every one of those $40,018 speak loudly for workers – growing our power with care, persistence, and the belief that together we can transform our lives, workplaces, communities, and our world.  

If you missed the match period but still want to support LIJWJ, don’t worry, we welcome donations all year round! Consider becoming a monthly sustainer and help build lasting power for workers on Long Island. Head to this link to start this month!

Your Services Are Under Attack – What You Can Do To Fight Back!

Speaking of building lasting power for workers on Long Island, there are actions we can all be taking right now to defend against the assaults on our local federal workers who do so much for our communities. LIJWJ, Hofstra University’s Labor Studies Program, Center for Civic Engagement, and the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy are hosting an event that will center federal workers, and share ways to support them at this critical moment.

This is a hybrid event! For in-person registration head to this link. If you’ll be attending via Zoom, this is the registration link for you.

Use one of the links above to register and please share with anyone you know who is in this fight with us!

Thank you and we’ll see you out there!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice

Before having a look at LIJWJ and Hofstra’s upcoming event, here’s a quick reminder that our Spring Match Campaign will be wrapping up on Monday April 14. That means the match period will end, and donations will no longer be doubled. We are very close to reaching our $20,000 goal, and you can help get us over the finish line!

If you are able to donate to keep LIJWJ going, but haven’t yet, this is the last call! Please head to our Givebutter page and chip in what you can!

Now, on to the event!

Our vital public services are under attack, and we must come together to protect them. The Postal Service, Social Security, Veterans’ care, Medicaid and other essential services are at risk – services that millions living in the US rely on every day. Without them, our communities would be torn apart.

Join community and labor advocates on April 30th for Your Services Are Under Attack – What You Can Do to Fight Back.  Your voice matters! Learn how to use it to save your services straight from impacted federal workers! The event is co-hosted by Long Island Jobs with Justice and Hofstra University’s Labor Studies Program, Center for Civic Engagement, Hofstra Cultural Center and the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy.

Scan the QR code or head to this link to register! We hope to see you there!

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice