Our work Across the State!

Massachusetts Jobs With Justice is one of the leading grassroots organizations fighting for education justice. Our work connecting parents, educators, and students has brought us to victories like winning the $1.5 billion Student Opportunity Act alongside our education justice partners. Mass JwJ is currently working on expanding our statewide education justice organizing capacity in order to grow in new places and build upon our current foundation. Check out our education justice one-pager below.

Health justice and equitable access to care is a key site of struggle for Massachusetts Jobs with Justice. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Mass JwJ saw the ways workers, communities of color, undocumented immigrants, low-income, incarcerated, and LGBTQIA+ folks face obstacles to care at every turn. We also saw our local hospitals being bought up by massive, billion-dollar corporations and turned into cash cows by understaffing and overworking nurses and hospital support staff-- and then when they’re not “profitable,” they’re closed.

Workers create all the wealth that businesses CEOs and their boards, organizations and state institutions take to fill their pockets. With this realization, we're organizing workers across the state to unionize and collectivize their demands to improve their working conditions and communities, bringing justice to the places where we spend most of our lives, hustling to put roofs over our heads and to feed our families.

The Worcester-based Parents Union of Massachusetts (PUMA) has over 240 members and has served over 700 local families by providing informational services, workshops, resources, mutual aid, and knowledge with each other.

PUMA’s goal is to support community demands for equitable and fully funded schools responsive to stakeholders’ feedback. Together we work alongside the members of our neighborhoods to achieve full access to an education that is individually, developmentally, and culturally appropriate for all students

Immigrants and undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States are denied basic labor protections, mobility, education, and public services because of their immigration status. Living in the shadows in low-wage industries such as farm labor, hotel, restaurant, and janitorial services, immigrants are vulnerable to labor exploitation, and they face constant fear of being fired or deported. This is why , at Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, we believe the struggle for immigrant rights intersects with our other struggles; workers' rights, education justice, health justice, and many more.

Mass Undocufund is a Covid relief fund created specifically for Massachusetts’ undocumented families, communities greatly underserved by existing relief efforts throughout the state. Unlike other pandemic victims, undocumented immigrants do not qualify for federal assistance such as unemployment benefits. They are also unable to access many state-level efforts and many municipal resources due to lacking legal documentation. Many undocumented community members work in the industries hardest hit by the pandemic closures, including service, hospitality, child and elder care, day labor and agriculture. This gap in life-saving financial assistance for undocumented communities throughout the state showed an unmet need that needed to be met.

As labor, and labor rights, are inextricably connected to systems of power, particularly racism and colorism, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice pursues many different campaigns and causes that work to further racial justice in Massachusetts. Below are some of our current campaigns that work to aid communities of color and combat the realities of racism.

Working people, especially those in Black and Latino/a/x communities, are facing the ever present threats of climate injustice, racism, and attacks on their health due to white supremacy and corporate greed. The COVID-19 pandemic has only brought these threats to the forefront and calls on us to take action together against the climate crisis, racism, and health injustice. We’re doing this work on legislative and community fronts, read more about these campaigns below.