Along with our commitment to fighting for the right to organize, the Washington State Jobs with Justice Steering Committee voted on three priority areas of work in 2010:

• Corporate Accountability for Low Wage Workers:
  To change the property development system from corporate bosses using government subsidies to produce luxury and unsustainable projects on the backs of low-wage workers, to one that uses these subsidies to benefit the entire community through worker-affordable housing and living wage jobs and training.


• Tax The Rich
  The Steering Committee has voted tax justice (Tax the Rich?) as a priority program and believes that organizing for a more progressive and sustainable tax system will galvanize a broad worker and community-based coalition all over the State. Our strategy is to hold multinational, powerful, and corrupt corporations accountable for designing the most regressive state tax system in the nation. We will mobilize unique worker voices to balance out the power of the current tax system designers. This is a multi-year effort that will:
  • Change the conversation about taxes
  • Lift up worker values and concerns
  • Surface injustices of corporate/government collusion
  • Build power for low wage earning communities
  • Implement a fair revenue system for critical services that doesn't raid worker pay and benefits but seeks to restore a balanced approach to support our state's families.


• Immigrant Workers Rights:
  To actively engage with local immigrant communities and organizations in campaigns that stop workplace and community immigration raids, stop police enforcement of immigration laws, cast the struggle for immigrant rights as a workers rights struggle that effects all working people, and to shift power from corporate investors to workers and immigrant communities in order to restructure a more just South Sound economy.