IWJ Leadership on the Issues
Chicago Math and Science Academy: Great Academics, Ugly Unionbusting
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo on a top Chicago charter school that has done great things for students, but won't recognize strong teacher support for a union
Catholic bishops, cardinals decry Arizona immigration law
Bishop Gabino Zavala, President of IWJ's Board of Directors, offers a Catholic perspective on SB 1070
A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists
Want to know how to run a successful protest? Kim Bobo, of Interfaith Worker Justice, takes us to school.
‘Go Ahead, Try and Make Me Pay You': Wage Theft and S.B. 1070
IWJ Communications Coordinator Danny Postel and Public Policy Director Ted Smukler analyze the impact of Arizona's draconian new immigration law on workers rights
IWJ's Union & Congregational Outreach Director, Renaye Manley, on the need for a new "Covenant for Workers" (PDF)
Prism Magazine | July-August 2010
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo reviews the book Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families by veteran organizer Wade Rathke
A Psalm for Mine Worker Justice
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo reflects on how Psalm 20 speaks to the anger, frustration, and betrayal felt by mine workers who've watched 52 fellow miners killed in Massey Energy coal mines over the last 10 years, 29 of them in the April 5 disaster at Upper Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia.
Jobs and justice high on interfaith activist's agenda
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo speaks to The Oregonian newspaper
The Department of Labor and the Common Good
Bishop Gabino Zavala, President of IWJ's Board of Directors, makes an impassioned plea that the U.S. Senate must confirm two key nominees to the Department of Labor so that it can do its job of protecting workers.
Overdue Confirmations for the Department of Labor
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo on why President Obama's nominees for two key posts in the Department of Labor should be confirmed immediately.
Could a Prophet Be Confirmed to the US Department of Labor?
Two of the Obama administration's picks to staff the Department of Labor are coming up for confirmation this week. M. Patricia Smith and Lorelei Boylan face opposition by right-wing business forces, who don't appreciate the kind of advocacy they represent.
Want to Love Your Neighbor? Pay Fair Wages
On this Labor Day, consider the results of a new report that reveals the pervasiveness of wage theft in the United States: from less-than-minimum wage pay to unpaid overtime to the refusal of meal breaks, many workers are being matter-of-factly robbed. By IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo
IWJ National Organizer Jonathan Currie reflects on the papal encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity - or Love - in Truth) in the magazine Social Policy (PDF).
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo's contribution to an online forum on Marshall Ganz's book Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
Employee Free Choice Act Needed to Stop Employers from Bearing False Witness
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo connects Bearing False Witness to the Employee Free Choice Act
On the Matter of the Secret Ballot
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo responds to an article in the Chicago Tribune about the Employee Free Choice Act
Building the Interfaith Worker Justice Movement
From the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, an in-depth interview with IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo, conducted by the Georgetown University historian Joseph McCartin.
Op-Ed in the Albany (New York) Times Union by IWJ executive director Kim Bobo and Brian O'Shaughnessy, executive director of the New York State Labor Religion Coalition.
A New Vision for the Department of Labor
An excerpt from IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo's new book Wage Theft in America outlining what the DOL needs to do to put an end to the national epidemic of wage theft
Hilda Solis: Great Choice for Labor
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo on the challenges facing the new Secretary of Labor
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a letter opposing workplace immigration raids in the wake of the largest such raid in the country's history.
Danny Postel | December 19, 2008
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Helping workers survive the hard times
The new US jobless figures emphasise the need to put workers at the forefront of plans to stimulate the economy
Ted Smukler | December 6, 2008
Stop the Great American Wage Rip-Off!
Wage theft is a widespread crisis affecting millions of U.S. workers from whom billions of dollars are stolen each year.
Kim Bobo | December 5, 2008
Giving Thanks -- and Taking Action
A call to put the meaning of Thanksgiving into action
Kim Bobo | November 27, 2008
The New Administration Can Stop Wage Theft--and Stimulate the Economy
A road map, from Day One to the First Year through the First Term
Kim Bobo | November 25, 2008
An excerpt from Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid -- And What We Can Do About It
Kim Bobo | November 24, 2008
The Day After: A Call to Action for Worker Justice
Religious communities must be be vocal in the call to improve conditions for the American worker
Kim Bobo | November 9, 2008
Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids
Religious leaders urge the government to implement a humane approach to immigration reform
Kim Bobo | October 23, 2008
Help Wanted: A Secretary of Labor Who Cares About Workers
We need a Labor Secretary like Frances Perkins, whose top priority was to help working people
Kim Bobo | October 21, 2008
Tough on workers, but not employers
The roundup of hundreds of workers in Laurel, Mississippi is a symptom of America's broken immigration policy
Bishop Gabino Zavala | September 1, 2008
Can't Get Away: Labor Day Reflections
How a family vacation illuminated workplace conditions across the American landscape
Kim Bobo | August 31, 2008
Putting Some Labor Back in Labor Day Weekend Services
Labor in the Pulpits reinserts the core values of work and economic justice
Kim Bobo | August 28, 2008
Eid Wars: Muslim workers and anti-immigrant outrage in a Tennessee town
A major union's Labor Day concession to Muslim workers sparks outrage in Shelbyville, Tennessee
Kim Bobo | August 17, 2008
Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers' Rights
Jewish, Catholic and community leaders converge on a rural Iowa town to protest the largest immigration workplace raid in U.S. history
Kim Bobo | August 6, 2008
A controversial new ruling from an up and coming rabbi in Conservative Judaism charts a course for a greater focus on worker justice
Kim Bobo | July 17, 2008
When not all workers share in the common good, when not all can raise their families in dignity, people of faith need to speak out for worker justice
Kim Bobo | May-June 2008
Steven Greenhouse's engaging new book exposes the crisis of low-wage work
Kim Bobo | May 27, 2008
The Bush administration's latest effort to appear tough on illegal immigration will result in massive, unjustified firings of lawfully employed workers
Ted Smukler | April 2, 2008
Is that Sharia? Islamic Investing and Worker Justice in Indianapolis
Kim Bobo | March 14, 2008
The Man Who United Labor and the Environment
Tony Mazzocchi was a leader in the movement to make industrial production less harmful to workers and the natural environment
Will Tanzman | January 3, 2008