Jobs with Justice

What Jobs with Justice does

Jobs With Justice is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit labor advocacy coalition founded in 1987 that brings together labor, community, student, and faith voices at national and local levels to advance collective bargaining rights, employment security, and economic justice. The organization operates a coalition model rather than a product business: it convenes local Jobs With Justice coalitions, runs national campaigns (POWER, Always Essential, Better For All, Worker Solidarity Fund), and produces research publications including the "Grand Theft Paycheck" wage-theft report. Its research and education work is housed in a wholly-owned subsidiary, Jobs With Justice Education Fund.

The organization has no software product, SaaS platform, or proprietary technology offering. Its distribution operates through grassroots organizing, coalition networks, an ActionNetwork-powered website with donations/petitions/pledge CTAs, an annual National Conference ("Workers Revive Democracy" theme for 2026), impact reports, and earned media placements in outlets such as Common Dreams and The Guardian. Revenue is generated through individual donations and fundraising (charitable giving model), with no pricing or fees charged to beneficiaries.

Recent strategic emphasis has been on the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI), launched in 2020 with the Institute for Policy Studies and Morehouse College, institutionalized in 2024 through a partnership with Clark Atlanta University's W.E.B. Du Bois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy to establish the Labor Center for Advancing Black Strategists and Research — focused on cultivating Black labor leadership in the U.S. South. The organization also anchors the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) annual conference (4th edition, 250+ scholars) at Georgetown's Kalmanovitz Initiative, and as of April 2026 participates in a 40+ organization coalition led by the Economic Policy Institute, We Build Progress, AFL-CIO Tech Institute, and Workshop to advocate for worker protections in federal AI legislation. Leadership consists of Executive Director Erica Smiley and Sherman Henry (Director, Labor Institute for Advancing Black Strategies).

Name

Jobs with Justice

Legal name

Jobs With Justice

Website

https://jwj.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Jobs With Justice is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit labor advocacy coalition founded in 1987 that mobilizes labor, community, student, and faith voices through campaigns, research, and grassroots organizing to advance collective bargaining rights, employment security, and economic justice for workers across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Labor Rights Advocacy Services

NAICS

Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations (81393), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Labor, Worker Rights & Employment Policy Advocacy (BPAGAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB), Workforce Development & Inclusive Employment (Job Training, Placement) (BPAGALAB), Racial & Ethnic Justice Organizations (BPAGAFAC)

Keywords

• Labor rights advocacy
• Workers rights coalition
• Community organizing
• Economic justice campaigns
• Collective bargaining advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations and Fundraising: Jobs With Justice raises funds through individual donations, online fundraising campaigns, and direct appeals to supporters for organizational sustainability.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Jobs With Justice is a national labor advocacy coalition that mobilizes labor, community, student, and faith voices through grassroots campaigns, coalition building, and policy advocacy to advance workers' rights, collective bargaining, and economic justice. It delivers this work through programs such as the POWER campaign, the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI), the Worker Solidarity Fund, the Always Essential campaign, and the Better For All initiative, supported by research reports, issue briefs, and the Jobs With Justice Education Fund.

Product overview

Jobs With Justice is a labor rights advocacy organization that does not offer a technology product or software platform. Their offerings consist of advocacy campaigns, educational resources, research publications, and organizing tools for workers and coalitions. The organization operates a website to disseminate information and coordinate activism but does not provide a distinct software product, SaaS platform, or technology service with modules, APIs, or integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jobs With Justice Website and Online Resources The Jobs With Justice website (jwj.org) functions as the organization's central online resource hub, providing mission information, research reports, issue briefs, blog posts, action alerts, and tools that workers, unions, community organizations, students, and faith communities use to organize and engage in labor rights advocacy.
• POWER Campaign The POWER Campaign is Jobs With Justice's online activist network and mobilization platform that engages supporters in labor rights campaigns and worker solidarity efforts through digital activism tools.
• Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI) The Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI) is a Jobs With Justice program that cultivates the next generation of Black labor leaders and strategists, with a particular focus on the U.S. South, delivered through a Movement Fellowship and partnerships with Clark Atlanta University and the W.E.B. Du Bois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy.
• Worker Solidarity Fund The Worker Solidarity Fund is a Jobs With Justice initiative that channels resources to workers engaged in collective action, labor disputes, and union organizing campaigns to sustain worker-led struggles.
• Always Essential Campaign The Always Essential Campaign is a Jobs With Justice initiative that organizes and advocates for essential workers, including teachers, emergency personnel, social workers, and nonprofit employees, to secure better wages, protections, and working conditions.
• Jobs With Justice Education Fund The Jobs With Justice Education Fund is the organization's wholly-owned subsidiary that conducts research, education, and policy advocacy on workers' rights and economic justice, producing reports such as 'Grand Theft Paycheck' on wage theft and coordinating the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN).
• Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a Jobs With Justice Education Fund project that convenes over 250 labor scholars and practitioners from unions, universities, and nonprofits annually to exchange research and strategy that advances the progressive workers' movement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Coalition of 40+ organizations mobilized for federal AI legislation
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Economic Policy InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026Led coalition of 40+ organizations calling on Congress to center workers in federal AI legislation.
• We Build ProgresscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026Coalition partner in advocacy for federal AI legislation protecting worker rights.
• AFL-CIO Tech InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026Coalition partner advocating for worker protections in federal AI legislation.
• WorkshopcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026Coalition partner in calling on Congress to center workers in federal AI legislation.
• Clark Atlanta UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 October 2024Partnership to establish Labor Center for Advancing Black Strategists and Research, housed within W.E.B. Du Bois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy at Clark Atlanta University.
• Morehouse CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost venue for the inaugural Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI) Movement Fellowship launch in 2022. Atlanta location significant as city rooted in Civil Rights movement history.
• Institute for Policy StudiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in launching the Advancing Black Strategists Initiative (ABSI) in fall 2020, focused on creating cohort of Black economic justice and labor-focused strategists.
• W.E.B. Du Bois Southern Center for Studies in Public PolicycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHousing institution for Labor Center for Advancing Black Strategists and Research, partnership with Jobs With Justice and Clark Atlanta University.
• Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject coordinated by Jobs With Justice Education Fund, creating space for exchange of ideas to advance progressive workers' movement. Hosted 4th annual conference at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative.
• Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost venue for LRAN annual conference, partnership for labor scholarship and movement building.
• Good Jobs First / Corporate Research ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-released report 'Grand Theft Paycheck' on wage theft by large corporations including Walmart, Bank of America, Wells Fargo.
• AFL-CIO Working For America InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-released report on workforce diversification in Buffalo manufacturing sector.
• Asia Floor Wage AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in investigating labor violations in Walmart's garment supply chain in India, Cambodia, and Indonesia.
• Global Labor JusticecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner documenting gender-based violence and labor violations in Walmart's global supply chain for ILO conference.
• Student Labor Action ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCampaign platform engaging students in labor activism and worker rights issues.
• POWER CampaigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCampaign partnership for online activist network and mobilization.
• Caring Across Generations CampaignminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCampaign coalition focused on care work and generational solidarity.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Economic Policy Institute: Think tank producing labor and economic policy research. Listed as JWJ's lead coalition partner on federal AI legislation, and serves as a peer research/advocacy producer rather than direct competitor.
• Institute for Policy Studies: Progressive think tank and long-time co-launcher of JWJ's Advancing Black Strategists Initiative. Functions as an allied research/advocacy partner rather than direct competitor.

Emerging players

• Coworker.org: Worker-led organizing platform enabling campaigns across companies and industries. Comparable to JWJ in worker-advocacy mission and constituency, but differentiated by a digital-platform delivery model that JWJ lacks.

Direct peers

• National Domestic Workers Alliance: National advocacy organization organizing domestic workers and winning state-level worker protections. Comparable in advocacy-only model, coalition-building approach, and focus on historically excluded worker populations.
• Interfaith Worker Justice: Faith-labor coalition network advancing worker rights through religious-community organizing. Directly comparable to JWJ's faith-community persona segment and coalition-based advocacy model.
• National Workers Law Center: National legal advocacy organization advancing worker protections, wage justice, and economic security. Comparable to JWJ in mission scope, advocacy tactics, and reliance on coalition-driven campaigns targeting federal and state policy.
• National Employment Law Project: Worker-rights advocacy organization focused on policy advocacy, research, and litigation for low-wage workers. Highly comparable to JWJ in target population, advocacy-only model, and policy-driven approach to labor standards.
• Working America: AFL-CIO's community affiliate organizing non-union workers around workplace and economic issues. Highly comparable community-organizing GTM, similar coalition-based advocacy approach, and overlapping target constituency of non-union workers.
• Strategic Organizing Center: Coalition of four major unions (UNITE HERE, SEIU, UFCW, CWA) focused on strategic organizing. Comparable to JWJ in coalition-driven advocacy and overlapping priorities around collective bargaining and worker power.

Broad incumbents

• AFL-CIO: The largest U.S. labor federation, directly comparable as a national labor advocacy body. AFL-CIO's Tech Institute is an active JWJ coalition partner in federal AI legislation advocacy, making it both an ally and a broader-incumbent peer in the same advocacy category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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