The so-called “Health Care Freedom Act” tricks voters into protecting insurance companies instead of people.

Don’t be fooled!  Vote NO!

Find out more information about this misleading proposition HERE!

Download Flyers to help educate friends, family, and your network HERE and HERE!

Take the Pledge to Vote NO on Proposition C!

For more information and to get an email that you can forward to your contacts email Amy Smoucha amy@mojwj.org .

On July 12, 2010 Jobs with Justice Activists and Leaders joined the America Postal Workers Union for an informational picket to save Saturday mail delivery. Congress is currently considering whether to eliminate Saturday service and only delivery mail 5 days a week.

Reducing service would weaken the United States Postal Service’s ability to serve every American at an inexpensive, uniform rate, and could eventually lead to privatization. Millions of Americans could no longer rely on Saturday delivery  to receive prescriptions, checks, or other important mail and outside couriers could step in and require anyone that needed something delivered on a Saturday to be charged more.

Tell your Representative to Save Saturday Service.

Read more about the picket HERE and HERE

The President Casino is closing on June 28, 2010 and Pinnacle Entertainment, which operates The President Casino, Lumiere Place Casino, and the new River City Casino, is refusing to keep it’s promises to the Presidents 220 workers. Pinnacle promised priority hiring at the Lumiere Place and River City Casinos and a retention bonus or severance package for workers who remained until closing.

Initially Pinnacle refused to negotiate transfers or priority hiring at their other two locations for 220 employees.It’s time for Pinnacle Entertainment to stand up and be a responsible employer to its workers and the community.

Tell them to keep their promises made to the President Casino workers!

Come rally with UNITE HERE Local 74, St. Louis Area Jobs with Justice, Community leaders, and workers to tell Pinnacle to be responsible to their workers and the community!

 "DO THE RIGHT THING" RALLY

Monday, June 28, 2010

5:00 PM

The President Casino

For more information go to www.ShameOnPinnacle.org

Sunday, May 2 was the deadline to turn in signatures for November 2010 ballot initiatives in Missouri.  Missouri Jobs with Justice and its members organize every year to insure the values and interests of Missouri’s workers are represented in this process.

2010 sees both good news and bad news for Missouri workers on the November 2010 ballot.

• The GOOD NEWS the so-called "Save Our Secret (SOS) Ballot" initiative failed to turn in signatures to qualify this anti-democratic initiative for the ballot. Read more
• The BAD NEWS is that the Millionaire Tax Cut – the Earnings Tax initiative did turn in enough signatures that it will likely qualify for the November 2010 statewide ballot. Read more about this reckless threat to essential public services in our state’s two biggest economic centers.

Find out more about these initiatives and what they mean to Missouri.

On March 23, 2010 House Bill 1792 was passed out of committee. This amended version of the bill we told you about last month would reduce the minimum wage for workers 18 and Under. For most teens this would mean almost $2.00 an hour lost!

In 2006, 76.4% of Missourians voted to pass Proposition B to raise the wage for ALL Missouri workers of ALL ages.

Don’t let the Missouri State House of Representatives vote to overturn the will of the voters!

Visit this page if you are 18 and Under and want to tell the Missouri Legislature "Don’t cut my wages"

Visit this page if you are Over 18 and want to tell the Missouri Legislature "Cutting wages based on age is unfair"

Young workers are important leaders in Jobs with Justice and the workers’ rights movement in Missouri.   Have their back!  Stand up against the attack on minimum wage for workers under 20.

Find out more about this campaign on www.FairWagesForMOTeens.org and Follow us on facebook by joining the cause "Missouri Jobs with Justice" and the group "Fair Wages for Missouri Teens"

You called Congress, canvassed your neighbors, raised awareness, money and power . . . all in support of historic legislation to reform and improve our health care system.

Yesterday, by a vote of 219-212, the US House of Representatives passed historic health care reform.  The measure will soon be signed into law by the President.

Final legislation reduces the deficit, expands health coverage to 32 million Americans, strengthens Medicare and Medicaid, and makes health coverage more affordable for all of us!

Now it’s time to call Congressmen Carnahan and Clay at 1-866-922-4970 to tell them THANK YOU for voting for Health Care Reform!

Our work in Missouri ensuring that reform is implemented is beginning already, and we will need your help to bring this victory home.  DONATE to Jobs with Justice health care organizing project to shore up our resources for the state fight.

JOIN US for a CELEBRATION tonight, Monday, 3/22 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street, downtown St. Louis.

http://www.schlafly.com/map.taproom.html

To RSVP or for more information contact Amy Smoucha amy@mojwj.org

Citing the massive cuts to public safety and city services that will result from the repeal of St. Louis City’s earnings tax, local fire fighters, elected officials, and community leaders joined together with United for Missouri’s Priorities today to call on voters to decline to sign petitions that will put on the November ballot an initiative eliminating the City’s earnings tax.

Cutting the earnings tax, eliminating over one-third of the budget,  would result in cuts that would make the city less safe and would force a hike in sales and property taxes. Jobs with Justice Leader Martin Rafanan spoke at the press conference today emphasizing "The increase in sales taxes that would likely be imposed to make up for the lost revenue from the elimination of the earnings tax would shift a disproportionate burden onto the backs of lower and working class citizens"

This effort is also targeting Kansas City’s earnings tax and passage of these repeals would cripple the economies of two of the major economic centers of the state.

Read more about the press conference in the news HERE, HERE, HERE,

To find out more about United for Missouri’s Priorities visit www.unitedformissourispriorities.org

(In 2009 Missouri Jobs with Justice sent 13 servers to Jefferson City to stop the bill that threaten the minimum wage for servers. Pictured to the right)

 In 2006, 76.4% of Missourians voted to pass Proposition B to raise the wage for ALL Missouri workers, including tipped employees.

Now, Senate Bill 889 threatens to roll back the minimum wage for tipped employees to that of 16 years ago.

We must act NOW! Tell the Missouri State Senate that the citizens of Missouri want to protect the wages of 53,240 tipped employees.

We need you to TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW:

1) Tell your Senator that you support waiters and waitresses and oppose Senate Bill 889

2) Tell your friends

3) Make whatever donation you can to make sure Jobs with Justice and its leaders can help servers throughout Missouri protect their minimum wage

4) Join the "Save Our Tips" Facebook group and stay informed

Find out more about this campaign.