We’re hoping to take some space in the blog and balancing the scales to recognize different ally organizations from across the state so that our members can get to know them better.  This is the second installment after recognizing People Advocating Recovery last issue.

Kentucky Jobs With Justice (JwJ) was founded in 1992 when community and church activists joined to support UNITE! in a fight for fair contract for workers against Louisville Manufacturing. KY JwJ has since grown to a coalition of more than 50 organizational members and 1800 individual activists who have pledged to "be there five times for someone else's fight as well as my own."

Kentucky Jobs with Justice is a broad-based coalition of community groups, faith-based organizations and labor unions united to promote, protect and improve the quality of life of all workers by empowering individuals and organiz

ations to engage in collective action for economic and social justice.

KFTC and JwJ work together on a broad range of issues and events, including tax and budget issues, our campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society, our voter empowerment work to register, educate and mobilize people to vote across the state (just to name a few).

“I think they’re a tremendous ally to have – we’re lucky to have them in Kentucky.  Jobs with Justice is great at bringing the voice of labor to the table with community organizations,” says former KFTC Chairperson Janet Tucker.  “One of the strongest roles they played this year was bringing together the KY Social Forum, which was just incredible.”