Tonight’s Ferguson Commission meeting focused on income inequality in the St. Louis region. Our own Statewide Director Lara Granich spoke, as well as several low wage workers from Show Me 15. Lara’s presentation focused on the growth of low wage jobs such as Fast Food, Homecare work, and restaurant industry jobs. This work isn’t going […]
On Thursday, February 12, the St. Louis Workers’ Rights Board is hosted a Town Hall Meeting on Civilian Review Board Bill 208. Over 50 came out to a panel which included Workers’ Rights Board Co-Chairs Ruth Ehresman and The Rev Audrey Hollis. Longtime police accountability advocate and Workers’ Rights Board member Jamala Rogers was also […]
This past Saturday, Missouri Jobs with Justice and Missouri Health Care for All co-sponsored an Public Meeting Town Hall on Medicaid expansion in Festus, MO. A panel of speakers spoke on the need for Medicaid expansion. Over 50 people came out to the event. We would like to give a big thanks to Craig Henning […]
On February 2, 2015, there was a hearing in Jefferson City on Right to Work bill HB116. St. Louis Workers’ Rights Board member The Rev Dr Martin Rafanan came with 200 clergy and 50 community leaders to oppose the anti-worker bill. Below is the testimony he gave. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, my […]
Our national partners Caring Across Generations is promoting a new book about the future of long-term care – both the services to pay for it so our fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers live in dignity, and the workers that care that care for them are paid a decent wage. The book is called “The […]
St. Louis Public Radio covered the Missouri Medicaid Coalition’s canvasses that staged out of a West County home this Saturday. Missouri Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Richard von Glahn, who was staffing the canvass, was featured in the coverage. Check out the article on the St. Louis Public Radio website. The entire article is also […]
St. Louis JwJ Workers’ Rights Board member The Rev Dr Martin Rafanan has this Letter to the Editor in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on why Right to Work and Paycheck Deception are bad for Missouri’s working families, and bad for our economy. See it on stltoday.com. Its also pasted in full below. Legislation is detrimental […]