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Workers' Rights Boards
In addition to building alliances between labor and community groups, Jobs with Justice built new structures - Workers' Rights Boards (WRBs) - to combat the lack of an adequate legal framework to support worker and economic justice issues. These boards are composed of community leaders, including religous leaders, academics, elected officials and other prominent members of the community, who bring their moral authority to action in support of workers' rights campaigns and social justice. WRBs have proven to be effective vehicles to address workers' and community concerns.
Although the Boards have no legal authority, the last seven years have taught us that the local structure of the Boards can produce real results; where the withered legal framework is slow to move the Boards can spur important action. In 2000, Jobs with Justice Workers' Right Boards were integral in over 60 workplace justice campaigns and 11 community/social justice campaigns. The WRB exposes employers who run anti-union campaigns or refuse to accept the choices of their employees. The Workers' Rights Board conducts hearings and investigations on matters of concern to working people, consistent with the Mission Statement, and issues reports and takes actions based on their findings.
For more information about the Washington State Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board, please contact Juan Jose Bocanegra at (206) 441-4969 or via email at boca(at)wsjwj(dot)org.
For more details on our Workers' Rights Board activities, click the links at left.
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