Along with our commitment to fighting for the right to organize, the Washington State Jobs with Justice Steering Committee voted on three priority areas of work in 2008:

• Corporate Accountability for Low Wage Workers:
  To change the system of property development from one in which corporate developers benefit from local government subsidies to produce luxury developments on the backs of low-wage workers, to one that uses these subsidies to bring the benefits of new investment to the entire community through worker-affordable housing and local, permanent, living wage jobs and training. Also to expose the excessive profitability of large insurance companies in Washington State that contribute to poverty and debt to low-wage workers and insure affordable health care for all Washington residents.


• Workers Impacted by War:
  To move our representatives in Congress to oppose the Bush Administration's continued attempts to use national security and the war in Iraq as a cover for attacking workers rights in Washington State and across the nation.


• Immigrant Workers Rights:
  To actively engage with local immigrant communities and organizations in campaigns that stop workplace and community immigration raids, stop police enforcement of immigration laws, cast the struggle for immigrant rights as a workers rights struggle that effects all working people, and to shift power from corporate investors to workers and immigrant communities in order to restructure a more just South Sound economy.