Let’s Pass our Checks to Local Families in Crisis ! Just one individual federal stimulus check will provide life-sustaining resources to at least two local families in crisis. Donate here: https://cwjiowa.salsalabs.org/FromMyHometoYours/index.html Low-wage and immigrant families in CWJ’s network have given our community so much. The workers at the heart of the Center for Worker…
Because none of us is safe unless all of us are safe. The COVID-19 crisis is an urgent reminder that everyone in our communities is interconnected. The safety and future of every one of us depend on each other, and an injury to one is truly an injury to all. This national emergency exposes the…
Read an article about some of the work that we do on The Gazette Newspaper : New data shows Iowans filed more than 600 unpaid wage claims, with limited success, in 2019 Franz Dunsworth said he was “hurting for work†when he began his third stint with Jet Services last fall. The Ainsworth, Iowa, native…
North Liberty, Iowa: A coalition of community members took action on Thursday, September 12 in support of two North Liberty workers who are victims of “wage theft” – when workers aren’t paid the wages they are legally owed. Wenceslao Mendez and Norma Diaz quit working at BeerBurger in North Liberty after their payroll checks bounced.…
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been working hard to make sure that local businesses continue to honor a minimum wage that our community can actually live off of. With the passage of HSB92, local businesses no longer have a legal obligation to continue to pay $10.10, but as Rev. Rudolph T. Juárez points out in…
On February 7, Republican lawmakers in Des Moines filed bills that constitute an all-out attack on workers in every city, county, and school district in our state. CWJ President Mazahir Salih and Vice-President Irund A-wan joined hundreds of union and community members at the capitol yesterday to speak out against these attacks. House Study Bill…