The percentage of workers represented by a union has fallen from 30% of the private sector four decades ago to less than 10% today. However, polling shows that 60 million workers, if given the chance, would join a union. What's keeping them from better wages, benefits, and working conditions? An anti-union environment has been created and maintained by broken labor laws and employers ready to scare, intimidate, and get rid of workers who organize themselves.

JWJ sees the rights of workers to organize together and bargain as one with their employers as fundamental to improving communities, bringing people out of poverty and inequality, and building a just and sustainable economy. For 20 years now, JWJ coalitions have formed to show that when enough of us stand together, we all start winning.

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