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

  • We rallied the Jewish community in support of Stop and Shop Workers, who successfully won their contract

  • The New England JLC is proud to have stood on the picket lines with the Marriott Hotel workers, who fought hard on strike for nearly six weeks to win a fair contract that will protect livable wages and scheduling, and will also include better sexual harassment protections, paid parental leave, and other improvements in working conditions.

  • We stood by the Battery Hotel Workers in their fight for a successful contract

  • The Jewish Labor Committee organized a letter of support from over 60 rabbis helping bolster the Harvard Graduate Student Union