We are comprised of both member organizations and individuals who sign the Jobs with Justice pledge to be there five times a year for someone else's struggle as well as their own. We are committed to create strategic alliances to develop a broad base of support.
Central Indiana Jobs with Justice is about empowering community activists. We believe that creative direct action will win tangible victories. We believe that our coalition works because of the collective action of our members. We support many issues including the right to organize a union, sustainable wages, affordable health care, global justice, and student rights.
Central Indiana Jobs with Justice has adopted the Jobs with Justice Unity Principles
We Believe In:
Coalition building - Building accountable, autonomous, and nationally networked local coalitions of labor community, student and religious organizations that combine their power is key to winning concrete improvements for workers and their communities.
Reciprocity – Labor and community groups need each other to win and build power. Relationships between and amongst these organizations must be built on principles of reciprocity, mutual respect and solidarity.
Action – Member organizations putting their members into action to support one another's struggles is a key to building power. We organize rank and file members of our partner organizations to sign pledge cards committing to come out five times a year to support worker and community campaigns. We believe that workers and communities united and in motion are the driving force for social and economic justice.
Relationships – Building long-term relationships between organizations and individuals is a key to building power.
Workers' Rights and Economic Justice - We are committed to a vision of a United States and a world where workers have collective bargaining rights, employment security, a decent standard of living, and freedom from discrimination of all kinds.
The current officers of the Central Indiana Jobs With Justice are:
Robert Pederson, UAW
Ed Ramthun, AFSCME Central Region
Roberta Schoneman, Common Cause/IN
Elizabeth Woodruff-Walker, AFSCME Council 62
Rebecca Maran, SEIU Local #3
Pete Berendt, Democratic Socialist of America
Lisa Kelly, Central Indiana Jobs with Justice
AFSCME Central Region
AFSCME Council 62
American Income Life
APWU - Indianapolis Area Local
Asbestos Workers' Union
Central Indiana DSA
Central Indiana Labor Council
Citizens Action Coalition
Common Cause of Indiana
Community, Faith and Labor
Concerned Clergy
CWA District 4
CWA Local 4900
FLOC
Indiana Alliance for Democracy
Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center
Midwest Council of Industrial Workers
National Jobs with Justice
OPEIU Local 1
OPEIU Local 277
SEIU Local 3/Justice for Janitors
UFCW Local 700
UNITE HERE - Indiana State Council
UNITE HERE Local 2002
United Methodist Indiana Southern Conference on Church & Society
