NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS, MEET HUMAN NEEDS, & SUSTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT

[Coalition, National Jobs for All]

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

As you know, 30 million people are unemployed or underemployed, and millions more who work full-time are working poor. Our country had a chronic problem. Now we have a crisis. Even those who see "green shoots" of  recovery warn of high joblessness long after the recession is over. This is the time to address both the chronic and acute problems. 

A coalition of religious, labor, social welfare, anti-poverty  organizations and individuals is hosting a national  conference in New York City this November 13-14 to arouse public  awareness and action on behalf of the jobless and in support of the right to a living-wage job for all. We propose creating living-wage jobs that fill other social needs--infrastructure repair, elder- and child-care, affordable housing--as well as address the imperative of  an ecologically sustainable economy Our proposal is based on work by the National Jobs for All Coalition and the Chicago Political Economy Group. A goal of the Conference is to  ignite similar events around the nation and ultimately action in Washington, DC
         
    *   Plan to attend the conference and register now
    *   Visit our conference website at www.JobsConference.org
    *   Inform individuals and organizations likely to be interested
    *   Add a link to the conference to your web site
    *   Volunteer to help
    *   Send a contribution to help pay for out-of-town attendees who will take the leadership in their cities and towns
    *  Send us your suggestions

Confirmed speakers include:

Bill Quigley, Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights.  Bill is a law professor on sabattical from Loyola University, and is the author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage (2003) and Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice (2008).

Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, and Professor of Religion, Columbia University

Peter Knowlton, President of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Northeast Region, and Vice-President on the General Executive Board of the UE National

Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Lillian Roberts, Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

James Thindwa, labor and community activist, and former Executive Director of Chicago Jobs With Justice.

Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs, Washington, DC


Chuck Bell, Conference Chair, Trudy Goldberg, Chair NJFAC , Mel Rothenberg, Chicago Political Economy Group, Marcel Welty, Conference Coordinator

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National Jobs for All Coalition
http://www.njfac.org