Since 1934, the Jewish Labor Committee has enabled the Jewish community and the trade union movement to work together on important issues of shared interest and concern, in pursuit of our shared commitment to economic and social justice.

Our Mission

We are a group of Jews committed to a world in which workers are entitled to all that we create. We draw on our religious and historical legacies. In Egypt, we were a group of oppressed laborers who found freedom by marching together. In the United States, we were key builders of the early American labor movement. Both Jewish tradition and the Labor Movement have taught us that liberation is realized through collective organizing against oppression — an organized oppression that continues to target the Jewish community and communities of workers alike – and that we can out-organize persecution when we stand and work together in solidarity.

We are a social justice organization dedicated to building the power of workers through educating, mobilizing, and organizing the Jewish community, both inside and outside of the established labor movement, to effectively advocate for collective liberation and economic justice.

A small slice of What We've Achieved