The current divisions within the labor movement lead us to reaffirm the core principles of Jobs with Justice. For 12 years, Washington State Jobs with Justice has united community, labor, religious and student organizations and activists to build power for workers and our communities. Through innovative projects like our Workers' Rights Board and the Student Labor Action Project, we continue to engage community leaders and activists in the long-term struggle for workers rights and economic justice. We have grown to be one of the largest and most effective JwJ coalitions in the country, expanding our work both geographically and programatically.

The enemies of working families and our communities have tremendous power in. Our shared goal is to shift the terms of struggle towards workers' rights, and social and economic justice.

We will continue to commit ourselves to building power for workers and communities. We will continue to work with any and all organizations that support these principles.

We welcome as members of our coalitions groups which are themselves membership organizations, which agree to support the mission of JwJ, and which will contribute to building JwJ by signing members as pledgers, publicizing JwJ activity, and contributing resources to building Jobs with Justice.

Our member organizations make decisions about which campaigns to support based on criteria which typically include worker involvement, a strategy to win, opportunity to build JwJ for the long haul, opportunities for leadership development, a role for creative militant direct action, etc. Jobs with Justice stands against oppression in all its forms.

The following principles are informed by the years of work building a movement for workers' rights and economic justice.

We Believe In:

Coalition building – Washington State JwJ unites labor, community, faith and student organizations, combining our power and experience to gain concrete improvements for workers and our communities. We do this in a way the remains accountable to our member organizations.

Reciprocity – Labor and community groups need each other to win and build power. Relationships between and among these organizations must be built on principles of reciprocity, mutual respect and solidarity.

Action – Our member organizations mobilize their base for action. Working with and through our member organizations, thousands of activists have signed pledge cards committing to come out five times a year to support worker and community campaigns. We believe that workers and communities united and in motion are the driving force for social and economic justice.

Relationships – Building long-term relationships between organizations and individuals is a key to building power.

Workers' Rights and Economic Justice - We are committed to a vision of United States and a world where workers have collective bargaining rights, employment security, a decent standard of living, and freedom from discrimination of all kinds.