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Interfaith Worker Justice

2006 Annual Report
We Are
Ready We are ready to hear.
We are ready to share.
We are ready the Spirit is near,
for we are hearing each voice,
and we are sharing each choice.
Oh we are ready;
we wait upon God’s word.
© 1999 Noelle Damico Publishing Co.

In 2006, Interfaith Worker Justice was ready. The organization and its 58 local
affiliates and 14 workers’ centers were at the forefront in engaging the religious
community in worker justice issues. And their accomplishments were great in a
difficult political climate for workers. Affiliates stood with hotel workers, laundry
workers and security guards who were seeking a voice in the workplace; workers’
centers spoke out against raids on immigrant employees and advocated for rational
immigration reform; and religious leaders provided a moral voice in raising the
minimum wage.

Interfaith Worker Justice had many victories at the national and local levels, as
described in this 2006 annual report. We believe there are new opportunities for
strong religion-labor partnerships. There is a new Congress, and worker-friendly
legislation could make it easier for workers to organize into unions. People of
faith are speaking out in favor of immigration reform, raising the minimum wage
and are beginning a discussion about healthcare. Workers seeking a voice in the
workplace are organizing unions to protect their rights and secure living wages and
fair benefits. And religious leaders are working with government agencies to ensure
that employers are abiding by labor laws.

Interfaith Worker Justice thanks its staff and affiliates for their hard work,
volunteers for their time and energy and its supporters for believing in the
organization and its mission. IWJ has been very careful to spend its resources
wisely. Together, we are ready to hear, and share, in the worker justice movement
that has the potential to transform the world.

In hope for the future,

Rev. Nelson Johnson Bishop Gabino Zavala

Co-President Co-President
We are
ADVOCATING
Advocating Just Public Policies
for Workers
Interfaith Worker Justice continues to build its capacity to advocate and
educate on public policies that affect workers in low-wage jobs. In 2006,
IWJ provided numerous resources for communications and outreach
on such issues as Gulf Coast rebuilding, U.S. Department of Labor
enforcement, immigration reform and minimum wage.

Gulf Coast Rebuilding – Continued its efforts to

advocate for just rebuilding of the Gulf Coast.
This work included the establishment of the Gulf
Coast Commission on Reconstruction Equity,
an advisory body of nationally respected labor
leaders, religious leaders, on-the-ground activists
and contract experts to help develop plans and
directions for the contracting advocacy work.
Under its leadership, this project:

• Analyzed the December 2005 Gulf Coast

appropriation, documenting how little money
went to housing or job training in the region.
• Issued a six-month report card and accompanying report analyzing
the work of various federal agencies in the rebuilding process and
contracting abuses, particularly in the protection of workers from
labor abuses. Held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to release
the report.
• Jointly published (with partner organization Good Jobs First) a report
on large contractors’ labor and environmental records.
• With Good Jobs First, published a report on how Gulf States can
use Go-Zone bonding authority to assist small, local and minority
businesses in projects that benefit the devastated areas. Released the
report at a press conference in New Orleans.
• Testified to the federal Acquisition Advisory Panel, which released a
report on reforming the federal procurement and acquisition process.

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We are
ADVOCATING
U.S. Department of Labor Enforcement – Researched, analyzed
data and drafted a report on the inadequacies of labor law
enforcement in New Orleans and the nation as a whole, with
a call to action to improve enforcement at the Department of
Labor (DOL). In the Gulf Coast, IWJ successfully advocated
for increased DOL presence to help with abuses in rebuilding.
Nationally, the organization analyzed the department’s
budget and submitted questions to the Senate Appropriations
Committee and questioned the appointment of the new Wage
and Hour administrator, Paul DeCamp, and his ability to
adequately lead the DOL in effective enforcement of labor laws.

Immigration Reform – Provided educational resources and

participated in coalitions advocating for humane immigration
reform. Interfaith Worker Justice created
religious bulletin materials, monitored
Congressional legislation on this issue and
participated in national Congressional
briefings. The organization engaged IWJ
constituents through e-alerts and the Web
site. IWJ was also a co-convener for the
Low-Wage Immigrant Worker coalition,
to strategize with other organizations on
immigration on a national level.

Minimum Wage – Mobilized religious

support for an increase in the minimum
wage, at the federal and state levels. At the
federal level, IWJ updated its educational
materials, analyzed Congressional legislation
on the minimum wage and sent updates to
its listserv. At the state level, the organization
participated in the Let Justice Roll coalition,
and supported affiliates in Michigan,
Arizona, and Ohio in engaging religious
support for ballot initiatives that successfully
increased the minimum wage in those states.

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We are
EDUCATING
Educating Future Religious Leaders
on Worker Justice Issues
IWJ develops future religious leaders through the Religious Perspectives
on Work project. In 2006, this project focused on three areas of work
– student internship programs, student groups and work with faculty to
increase awareness of worker justice issues in seminaries, graduate and
undergraduate religious training programs.

Summer internship programs – Recruited, trained and placed 47

summer interns with local unions and IWJ affiliates. Organized the IWJ
New Orleans Worker Justice
Internship, with six religious
interns and a supervisor to
carry out preliminary work to
build a workers’ center in New
Orleans.

Seminarians for Worker Justice

groups – Provided training
and support opportunities for
students advocating for worker
justice on their campuses. Built
new SWJ groups in Boston
and Columbus, Ohio, and
held worker justice forums
in the Bay Area, Chicago and
Los Angeles. Held the first four-day organizing training exclusively for
students, drawing 25 student leaders from across the country.

Work with faculty to increase awareness of worker justice issues –

Engaged more than 300 students and 135 faculty via faculty convenings,
teach-ins, actions, worker justice chapel services and courses with
significant worker justice components. Led worker justice workshops
and meetings at conferences held at such places as: Methodist Field
Educators Continuing Education Conference, Society of Christian
Ethicists, Jewish Perspectives on Work, Loyola University, Graduate
Theological Union, Memphis Theological Seminary, Boston Theological
Institute, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary
and the SCUPE Congress. Posted extensive educational resources on
worker justice, for faculty and student use, at www.iwj.org.

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We are
Mobilizing
Mobilizing Religious Support
for Workers
Much of IWJ’s religious support for workers’ rights campaigns
comes through technical assistance for local affiliates working
on these issues in their
communities. In addition
to that work, IWJ focused
on campaign coordination,
education, and outreach to
provide a national presence
on campaigns that involved
large numbers of workers.

Hotel Workers – Engaged

the religious community
to support the campaign
to win better wages and
working conditions for
hotel workers. Organized
clergy strategy meetings
in Chicago and Toronto.
Encouraged religious
denominations to join
INMEX, an association
to help meeting planners
respect workers’ rights.

Coal Miners – Assisted in the development of

a national religious strategy in support of the
United Mine Workers of America campaign to
win the right to organize for 3,000 non-union coal
miners at Peabody Energy. Organized a group
of religious leaders from around the country to
participate in a fact-finding delegation to the
coalfield area of Western Kentucky, and then
collaborated in the writing and release of a report
based on that delegation.

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Mobilizing
Security Officers – Assisted
with clergy organizing in
support of security officers
campaigns in key cities.
Coordinated two conference
calls among these affiliates to
facilitate strategic thinking
and brainstorm creative
tactics and actions. Recruited,
trained, and placed four
summer interns to work on
this issue with local affiliates.
Created Labor in the Pulpits
bulletin insert highlighting the conditions of security officers.

Farm Workers – Initiated a statewide campaign of religious support for

farm workers in North Carolina. Convened a strategy meeting with the
Farm Labor Organizing Committee leadership and religious leaders to
develop a strategy for religious involvement.

Laundry Workers – Encouraged religious congregations and

organizations to pledge not to use Cintas Corporation until the
company improved its treatment of workers. Revised a second national
report on Cintas’ treatment of workers
and organized an action with Catholic
Social Action Directors at Cintas
headquarters to deliver the new report.

Janitors – Engaged the religious

community to support the campaign to
win living wages and benefits for janitors.
Supported South Florida Interfaith
Worker Justice work to organize clergy
and congregation members to play a
key role in the first major Justice for
Janitors victory in a “right-to-work”
state. Organized religious support in
Indianapolis and Philadelphia for the
national campaign to win improvements
for janitors at Simon Malls.

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We are
AMPLIFYING
Amplifying the Religious Voice on
Economic Justice Issues
Through educational resources, technology and media, IWJ
is focused on providing a religious voice on issues that affect
workers in low-wage jobs.

Educational Resources – The organization continues to

produce high quality materials and resources for the religious
community. In 2006, these resources included:
• Labor in the Pulpits resources, including reflections, bulletin
inserts and outreach brochures.
• Four Issues of Faith Works, IWJ’s
newsletter.
• Report of Gulf Coast Commission on
Reconstruction Equity and report card.
• Peabody Coal Report.
• IWJ Affiliate Handbook and New
Group Manual.

Technology – In the past year, IWJ sent

out 33 e-alerts, e-mailed 2,370 letters on
particular issues and added a significant
amount of campaign and issue material to
its Web site.

Media – Sent press releases and organized

press conferences to bring to light some
of the organization’s issues on the national
media scene. Organized press on such
issues as the Gulf Coast Commission
Report, raising the minimum wage and
the Peabody Coal campaign.

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WeTRAINING
are
Training Grassroots IWJ Affiliates
Interfaith Worker Justice has expanded its capacity to
provide technical assistance to its affiliate groups. The
national office is committed to providing assistance on
community organizing, fundraising and organization
building issues to ensure the long-term success of the local
organizations. There are two ways that this was done in 2006:

Technical assistance and training for affiliates’ staff and

leaders – Developed a “starter manual” for new affiliates
and a comprehensive handbook for established affiliates
that provides a solid foundation for community organizing,
fundraising and organization building. Assisted eight
affiliates in developing and implementing fundraising plans.
Provided personalized training and facilitation services to
another five affiliates. Trained 15 local leaders during IWJ’s
religion labor training in September 2006.

Built and strengthened affiliates in strategic

locations – Built affiliate offices in New
Orleans, Houston, and Phoenix. Provided
fundraising support, technical assistance
from organizational development to board
leadership to hiring staff, facilitated/
organized activities, and supplied interns
for a select number of cities in the
network. These cities were chosen based
on organizational potential, opportunity
for growth and a site for an important
national campaign. In 2006, the cities were
Boston, Miami, Houston, New Orleans, and
Phoenix. IWJ also provided 30 summer
interns to help with campaigns of local
affiliates in the network.

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We are
Building
Building Workers’ Centers
There are 14 workers’ centers in the IWJ network. These centers
are safe spaces where low-wage and immigrant workers join with
people of faith, union organizers, lawyers and volunteers to enforce
workers’ rights and fight sweatshop conditions. Although workers’
issues vary from place to place, centers in the IWJ network educate
workers about their basic rights in the workplaces, such as the right
to minimum wage and overtime, healthy and safe conditions and the
right to organize. The centers then work with workers to stand up for
their rights and challenge illegal and unjust activity in the workplace.

The IWJ workers’ center network is developing at a rapid pace. The

major accomplishments for 2006 include:
• Piloted a stored value card project intended to create a steady
stream of funding for workers’ centers that are part of the network
while providing workers with an alternative to predatory financial
services to transfer money to their home countries.
• Created dozens of new online and printed resources on workers’
rights and immigration issues.
• Expanded the network
from 10 to 14 workers’
centers. Developed
new workers’ centers
in Houston and New
Orleans and welcomed
two existing centers
from Michigan and
New Jersey.
• Signed a historic
agreement with
the AFL-CIO that
allows for more fluid
cooperation with the
labor union umbrella.

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 Local Groups
ARIZONA
Interfaith Worker Justice of Arizona
• Organized a national consultation of theologians and religious studies faculty with expertise in
immigration issues. Participants in this consultation subsequently produced educational material
including theological reflections for use in seminaries on immigration and the rights of workers.
• Actively engaged more than 100 faith communities (congregations) statewide and informed hundreds
more in Arizona’s minimum-wage-increase ballot initiative campaign, which subsequently won with 66
percent of the vote.
• Organized actions against local contractors and subcontractors who have been exploiting workers in
low-wage jobs.

ARKANSAS
Arkansas Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
• Organized the faith community to support the successful ballot initiative that raised the state minimum
wage.
• Held a food/fundraising drive that raised $700 and a vanload of food to support the United Steelworkers
members on strike at National Wire in Star City.
• Held fundraising banquet highlighting the connections between faith and labor that drew 175
participants.

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles – Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE)
• Successfully pressured building owners in South Los Angeles to support security officers’ efforts to
gain union representation from the security contractors. On April 11th, Maguire Properties, the largest
employer in Los Angeles county, agreed to hire responsible contractors instead of the lowest bid and
publicly stated its support for security officers’ being represented by the union of their choice. By the end
of the year, the majority of the members of the Building Owners and Managers’ Association had made
a similar agreement. Additionally, the Stand for Security Coalition passed city legislation that mandated
adequate training for security officers in high-rise buildings.
• Organized religious support for hotel workers in the LAX airport area. A CLUE LA committee of
religious leaders (a diverse group of 34 leaders representing 18 congregations) had been instrumental in
moving several luxury hotel owners in the airport area to grant card-check neutrality to their workers, as
well as helping to pass living wage legislation covering hotel workers in the airport area. Over 60 religious
leaders committed civil disobedience to support hotel workers as part of the largest civil disobedience
action in the history of Los Angeles.
• Developed an interfaith coalition to support immigrant rights. The coalition was active in sending over
40 religious leaders to Washington D.C. to hold legislators morally accountable as well as organizing
legislative visits locally, democracy centers in 22 congregations, immigration in the pulpit and a wide
variety of religious participation in media opportunities. This led to the formation of the New Sanctuary
Movement, which started in Los Angeles in November 2006 and has since expanded across the country.

CLUE – CA
• Hired first full-time, statewide Coordinator.
• Organized first bi-annual statewide CLUE Conference, which brought together over 200 faith and
community leaders from a wide array of faith traditions and regions throughout the state. Keynote
speakers included author Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. James Lawson and UNITE HERE Hospitality
President, John Wilhelm.

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 • Collaborated on key statewide campaigns, including Hotel Workers Rising, Stand for Security and the
New Sanctuary Movement, a national campaign being spearheaded by CLUE-CA along with Interfaith
Worker Justice and the New York Sanctuary Coalition.
• Seeded three new affiliate groups in strategic regions: San Francisco, Southern California’s Inland Empire
and Orange County.

East Bay Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

• Proclaimed victory for workers at the Claremont Hotel. After a tumultuous five year fight with the
Claremont, a local luxury hotel, East Bay ICWJ, along with UNITE HERE Local 2850, the East Bay
Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) and others, announced victory for workers at the hotel. The
East Bay ICWJ played a special role in this fight, providing chaplaincy to workers on numerous occasions
and leading the way in some of the most unique actions our community has ever seen. Workers now
enjoy a fair contract and a renewed sense of fulfillment as a result of their efforts.
• Joined forces to support the Security Officers of ABC Security Service, Inc., in Oakland, California. The
faith leaders of the East Bay ICWJ collectively put their arms around 200 workers in numerous ways. In
May, the faith leaders ‘Shined the Light’ on ABC as they protested against intimidation and unfairness on
the steps of Oakland City Hall. The East Bay ICWJ presented a petition of 55 faith leaders calling for the
unionization of these workers and followed up with several delegations to clients. In December 2006, the
voice of the community finally prevailed as the workers won a card check neutrality agreement.

Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice in San Diego

• Helped 3,000 home care workers maintain healthcare coverage. Just before Labor Day, San Diego County
advised almost 3,000 home care workers that they would be losing their healthcare coverage at the end
of the month. To avoid this crisis, ICWJ partnered with UDW-AFSCME to work behind the scenes with
elected officials and strategic allies in the labor community to reach an agreement between the union and
the County to guarantee healthcare at no additional cost to the workers.
• Provided religious support for Head Start workers to win a just contract. For almost four years, Head
Start workers for San Diego’s Neighborhood House Association (NHA) struggled to win a just contract
and a voice on the job. ICWJ stood strong beside the workers on delegations, at actions and served
witness at the bargaining table until they were able to bargain for the wages, benefits and respect they
need to serve the Head Start families.
• Supported workers at Pala Casino and Resort to negotiate and sign a strong first contract with the Pala
Band of Indians in North San Diego County. With tribal casinos employing thousands of workers across
California and earning more than $6 billion a year in a growing industry, this contract sets a strong
precedent. These workers were not only able gain better wages and benefits, but their contract also
includes anti-discrimination language and arbitration measures in workers’ compensation cases – rights
that workers do not always have on sovereign lands.

Interfaith Council on Race, Religion, Economic and Social Justice

• Advocated for safe staffing in local hospitals. In 2002, The Interfaith Council joined with concerned
healthcare works and community members in urging local hospitals owned by the Daughters of Charity
and by the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) to improve the critical staffing shortages discovered
at their facilities, which threatened both workers’ safety and patient care. This struggle continued through
2006, when area clergy presented an open letter from more than 40 religious leaders to the local HCA-
owned hospitals asking for safe staffing levels and fair mediation for patient and staff rights.
• Developed faith based materials to highlight the benefits of providing universal health care for all
children in California and reducing the death rates and health related problems due to smoking. In
Santa Clara County, Proposition 86 - Tobacco Tax and Children’s Health Fund won 57 percent approval
but lost statewide by 2 percent due to a $70 million campaign by big tobacco companies. Following the
election, the Governor made children’s health insurance one of his top priorities.

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Sonoma County Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
• Organized to pass a living-wage ordinance in Petaluma City. On November 6th, the Petaluma City
Council unanimously passed a living-wage ordinance proposed by the Living Wage Coalition. The
Council vote was the culmination of a two-year campaign to implement living-wage legislation in
Petaluma, the second largest city in the North Bay Area
• Supported workers from the Petaluma Sheraton in obtaining their first three-year union contract
in September. Seven years after they began their struggle and after much negotiation and concerted
lobbying by the Sonoma County Living Wage Coalition and a variety of local religious leaders and
congregants, the workers at the Petaluma Sheraton negotiated a three-year union contract. The Sheraton
employees will earn a living wage and enjoy benefits such as health insurance. Management, union
representatives and local educators are also exploring ways to create employment ladders within the
hotel, providing both basic education and high tech job training.

COLORADO
Front Range Economic Strategy Center – Faith in Action
• Won Colorado’s first set of Community Benefits Agreements at the site of the former Gates Rubber
Factory. The $1 billion redevelopment project, undertaken by developer Cherokee Investment Partners,
is located on a light rail transit line and at the intersection of I-25 and Broadway in central Denver. In
broad coalition with unions, community organizations, faith communities and environmental
organizations, FRESC won such achievements as affordable housing; prevailing wages and benefits
for construction workers engaged in publicly-funded construction; selection of a union construction
manager and contractor with a strong record of paying good wages and benefits as well as providing
safe working conditions. FRESC also secured the necessary developer cooperation and participation to
monitor environmental cleanup of the brownfield and communicate cleanup issues to affected neighbors. 
• Played an instrumental role in a community-labor-faith coalition across Colorado to win passage of a
statewide ballot initiative in November 2006 that increased the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.85 per
hour and indexed the minimum wage to inflation. Also, FRESC canvassed thousands of households to
help educate the Denver and Lakewood voters who may be impacted by transit oriented developments
along the proposed light rail line. Topics included potential housing displacement and gentrification.
During this effort, FRESC worked to identify the potential leaders who are now being organized to help
shape these developments. 

CONNECTICUT
Connecticut Center for a New Economy
• Achieved a comprehensive Community Benefits Agreement at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Its coalition of
clergy, community and labor leaders organized marches, held press conferences and a public hearing to
encourage the hospital to reach such an agreement. The major benefits of this agreement include:
■ Jobs – over the next five years, the hospital will hire 500 residents from the area surrounding the
hospital; and current workers will be given the right to choose to form a union free from fear and
intimidation;
■ Traffic and Parking – the hospital has committed to reduce the number of employees that drive to
work by 10 percent and to build a garage 40 percent smaller than originally proposed;
■ Housing – contribute $1.2 million for housing and economic development.
• Engaged clergy, community organizations and labor unions in Hartford to address the continued decline
of real income for Hartford residents. One example of this work is encouraging a state-funded convention
center/hotel complex to negotiate a labor-peace agreement and abide by the city’s living-wage ordinance.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Jobs with Justice – Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington
• Organized a successful forum on immigration reform in May which was attended by more than 50 local
religious leaders.
• Held a successful Labor in the Pulpits Program with participation from 44 area congregations.

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 FLORIDA
Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida
• Coordinated increasing national pressure on McDonald’s from the religious community, including new
2006 statements by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Florida-based Episcopal Bishops,
and leaders from many other national denominations. Many faith communities participated in the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ 2006 McDonald’s Truth Tour to encourage the restaurant to pay a fair
price for its tomatoes.
• Launched the Alliance for Fair Food network, with endorsements from the United Church of Christ
Justice and Witness Ministries, the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist
Church, Tikkun, Sojourners and many others.  

South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice

• Organized the faith community to play a key role in winning living wages and benefits and the right to
organize for 410 janitors at the University of Miami.
• Hosted SEIU International President Andy Stern at a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day prayer rally and
march in support of the janitors which was attended by more than 400 supporters.
• Organized clergy and congregation members to participate in civil disobedience, join a hunger strike,
provide a “Strike Sanctuary” for workers on the university campus, host workers at their pulpits and hold
press conferences and rallies to support the janitors.

GEORGIA
Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance
• Assisted in educating and organizing over 1,000 workers to sign up for a class action lawsuit focused on
securing payment for don-on and don-off safety equipment for poultry workers.
• Partnered with the “Help a Child Smile,” mobile dentistry program. During GPJA’s health fairs, children’s
teeth are cleaned while their parents learn about health and safety issues on the job.

ILLINOIS
Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues
• Helped a group of fifty workers get their jobs back after unjust treatment by their employer. A group
of workers from a manufacturing company were told they could have the day off to attend the first
mass immigrant rights rally on March 10, but were locked out when they showed up at work the next
day. These workers came to Interfaith’s Worker Rights Center. In partnership, these workers won
reinstatement and were back at work within three days. 
• Supported 7,000 UNITE HERE hotel workers in their successful campaign to win a contract that included
a wage increase and safer working conditions; CICWI partnered with the union to organize delegations,
clergy breakfasts and a religious support statement that was signed by 400 local religious leaders.
• Graduated more than 100 individuals from the Building Bridges program, which creates more career
opportunities for women and minorities in the union building trades; 31 percent of which were ex-
offenders.

INDIANA
Community, Faith and Labor Coalition
• Continued to support the SEIU campaign to increase wages and benefits for low-wage janitors at
commercial office buildings in Indianapolis.
• Participated in a clergy delegation that went to Simon Malls to thank them for allowing the workers at
their malls around the country to organize with SEIU for living wages and benefits.
• Organized an interfaith forum at Marion College at which leaders in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim
communities talked about the need to raise the minimum wage.

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MASSACHUSETTS
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
• Organized pastoral care and support for the janitor workers’ fast for justice in Burlington.
• Mobilized the religious community through delegations, prayers and rallies to support security guards,
which led to a successful victory for security guards in Boston.

MICHIGAN
Detroit Metropolitan Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues
• Supported a successful Justice for Janitors campaign by SEIU Local 3, resulting in a good contract for its
members.
• Participated in a broad coalition that successfully campaigned to raise the minimum wage in Michigan.
• Hosted a Building Justice event, working towards a retention agreement for unionized Detroit workers
such as janitors and operating engineers who tend to be fired when new owners buy downtown Detroit
buildings.

MISSOURI
Greater Kansas City Coalition for Worker Justice
• Organized a conference and action on Wal-Mart’s unfair treatment of workers with more than 100
participants and held monthly Wal-Mart actions throughout the year.
• Brought a religious presence to worker justice actions by janitors, DHL workers, bus drivers and teachers.
• Initiated a Building Bridges Project, which provides pre-apprenticeship training and support for people
of color and women entering the building trades unions.
• Organized religious support for the successful initiative on the November ballot to increase Missouri’s
state minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $6.50.
• Organized an interfaith Labor Day service with 150 participants that educated people on the connections
between our faith traditions and justice for workers.

NEW YORK
Capital District Labor-Religion Coalition
• Organized a campaign of public events in which religious leaders called for the state to allow childcare
workers the right to organize for living wages and benefits.
• Organized 13 congregations to address justice for workers at Labor Day weekend religious services.
• Completed first class of Building Skills Project, which provides pre-apprenticeship training for people of
color and women working to enter the building trades unions.

New York City Labor-Religion Coalition

• Partnered in the founding of 1,000 Congregations for Economic Justice, an interfaith coalition working
to support the campaign by 60,000 New York security officers to organize with SEIU.
• Helped organize an interfaith gathering in support of security officers with more than 300 people,
including 100 religious leaders.

New York State Labor-Religion Coalition

• Initiated the Fair Trade Project that encourages union members to order fair trade coffee and chocolate
and encourages unions to serve and promote fair trade products at conferences and benefit dinners.
• Worked to enforce anti-sweatshop ordinances passed by New York State and two local governments that
deal with apparel and textiles purchased by those governments.
• Organized two delegations of people of faith and students to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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 OHIO
Greater Columbus Jobs with Justice
• Brought a delegation of religious and community leaders to meet with an aide to Senator George
Voinovich (R-OH) to urge him to vote for a clean minimum-wage bill.
• Organized an event with faith and community leaders who publicly delivered 600,000 petition signatures
gathered by Let Justice Roll in support of the successful Ohio minimum-wage increase.
• Mobilized more than 20 progressive churches to turn out a group of 500 people to a Jim Wallace event in
support of the minimum wage ballot initiative.

Toledo Area Jobs with Justice

• Reached out to congregations and trained volunteers to collect petition signatures for the successful
ballot initiative to raise the Ohio minimum wage.
• Organized a clergy rally with 15 religious leaders from different faith traditions in support of the
minimum-wage increase.

OKLAHOMA
Central Oklahoma Community Forum
• Held annual religion-labor breakfast with 100 participants.
• Organized Labor in the Pulpits program in which 20 congregations lifted up the issue of justice for
workers at Labor Day weekend religious services.

OREGON
Springfield Solidarity Network/Jobs with Justice
• Successfully pressured the City of Eugene and the Lane County Board of Commissioners to adopt
measurable wage and benefit standards for the West Eugene Enterprise Zone. The victory, which was
over three years in the making, was the hard work of the organization’s members to educate themselves
and the community about economic development programs and the use of tax payer money to benefit
private business.
• Participated in the “Take Back Our America” Coalition to protest against the injustices that are
compromising the nation. Organized an event in March, around the third anniversary of the invasion of
Iraq. Nearly 1,600 people marched from three locations in Eugene, converging at the Federal Building.
There was a rally and workshops on peace and justice issues. The Coalition provides opportunities for
building coalition, learning and growth.

Portland Jobs with Justice – Religious Outreach Committee

• Held the fifth annual faith labor breakfast under the theme of “Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice,” attended
by 120 clergy and labor leaders. The purpose of the breakfast was to foster intentional relationships
between faith and labor leaders.
• Worked closely with SEIU Local 49 in the Providence Healthcare organizing campaign and partnered
with them to form a Workers Rights Board/Fair Elections Oversight Committee (WRB/EOC). The WRB/
EOC listened to testimony from workers and wrote a report detailing their findings. Since then, Local 49
has been using the testimonies given in public forums in 26 religious communities.
• Stood alongside workers from the “Three Mile Canyon” Dairy as they won the struggle to have their
union recognized. The religious community has been involved in this four-year struggle. JWJ helped the
union go after every single customer of the dairy and got them to cancel their contracts.

PENNSYLVANIA
Jobs with Justice – Philadelphia Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
• Held Labor Day prayer vigil with 50 people in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, in solidarity with immigrants
facing a repressive anti-immigrant ordinance from the local city council.

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TENNESSEE
Interfaith Worker Justice of East Tennessee
• Organized religious support for a campaign by 600 poultry workers in Marstown that successfully won
the first union contract with their employer.

Mid-South Interfaith Network for Economic Justice

• Pushed the Memphis City Council to pass a living-wage ordinance mandating that all city workers, city
contractors and workers at companies that get tax breaks earn $10 per hour with benefits, or $12 without
benefits.
• Taught a labor class at Memphis Theological Seminary titled Jesus Was a Carpenter: Faith Perspectives
on Labor and Justice.

Middle Tennessee Jobs with Justice

• Initiated faith organizing around the campaign to win a living wage at Vanderbilt University, one of the
largest employers in Tennessee.

TEXAS
Religion and Labor Network of Austin
• Successfully opposed an anti-solicitation ordinance before the Austin City Council. Religious leaders
visited City Council members, spoke at a public hearing and helped plan a vigil outside of City Hall.
RLNA leaders are committed to finding positive and just solutions between day laborers and the city of
Austin, including a recent proposal for a new formal Day Laborer site.
• Offered several opportunities for education and networking by showing the film, Letters from the Other
Side. This documentary focuses on the issue of immigration through the experiences of Mexican women
and their children left behind as their spouses work in the United States.

WISCONSIN
Faith Community for Worker Justice
• Organized a Labor in the Pulpits/on the Bimah/in the Minbar program that placed union members and
labor leaders as speakers at Labor Day weekend worship services in 78 congregations.

Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice of South Central Wisconsin

• Partnered with the Madison area Urban Ministry to launch a campaign to highlight discrimination based
on arrest and conviction records. The coalition is training workers on their rights, educating employers
on the law and meeting with employers who are identified as violating local and state protections.
• Supported efforts by janitors to improve conditions in their industry, and led an effort, through
community delegations, education and actions, to get building owners and property managers to take
greater responsibility for what happens in their facilities.
• Provided assistance and support for many labor struggles including rallies in support of Superior
Health Linen workers, built bridges between the labor and religious community and stood with striking
Goodyear workers from Steelworkers Local 904 as they resisted the company’s efforts to slash wages and
benefits.

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 Workers’ Centers
Northwest Arkansas Worker Justice Center
• Held workshops to train at least 1,000 workers on their rights in the workplace.
• Assisted workers in 300 cases of workplace abuse.
• Partnered with workers to recover over $40,000 in back wages, safety and health, workers’ compensation
and discrimination claims.

Chicago Interfaith Workers’ Rights Center

• Assisted over 100 workers in a lawsuit against a major corporation that closed without warning. The
settlement will provide over $10,000 for each worker involved.
• Established a successful collaboration with the Illinois State Attorney General’s office on wage theft. The
Attorney General’s office has hired staff to work on wage theft because of this collaboration.
• Hired a worker leader to increase membership in the center.

Interfaith Worker Justice Center of New Orleans

• Wrote and released report on the Department of Labor’s performance in post-Katrina New Orleans
based on interviews with more than 400 workers, community leaders and other New Orleans residents.
• Researched, wrote and published a workers rights manual on labor laws and workers rights in New
Orleans.
• Initiated campaign to establish Congressional and community oversight over the Department of Labor’s
work in New Orleans.

Washtenaw County Workers’ Center (Michigan)

• Founded the workers’ center, which included securing funding, hiring part-time staff, opening an office
and incorporating as a non-profit organization.
• Created the Workers’ Rights Committee (WRC), a worker-led group of 30-45 people that meets monthly
to provide trainings on specific workplace issues and conducts outreach by door-knocking in local
apartments and low-income neighborhoods.
• Conducted trainings on basic elements of workers’ rights, including wage and hour violations,
discrimination, harassment and forming organizing committees in one’s workplace. Assisted several
workers in mediation with employers around workplace problems. 

Twin Cities Interfaith Center for Worker Justice

• Formed a workers’ center advisory board which includes members of the community, religious groups,
labor groups and workers.
• Developed capacity to assist workers that come to the center with leadership development.
• Provided legal services and worker rights workshops for those needing help from the center.

Mississippi Poultry Workers for Equality and Respect

• Became independent and filed for 501(c)3 status.
• Involved 15 businesses with workplace justice projects.
• Created a network of attorneys throughout the state of Mississippi with a concentration on workers’
compensation.
• Developed leadership council, a bi-lingual group composed of both African American and Latino worker
leaders.

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New Labor (New Jersey)
• Piloted the Stored Value Card to over 250 members of the center.
• Successfully advocated for legislation to improve van safety for workers being transported to and from
the workplace in the state of New Jersey.
• Created a new peer-to-peer training program that trains members to facilitate classes on health and
safety, immigrant, worker and tenant rights, and is linked to a participatory, problem-solving process
where members are active in the design and implementation of solutions to the problems they face.

Capital District Workers’ Center (New York)

• Secured funding for three separate classes targeting 75 people for the Building Skills classes, to help low-
income individuals and women enter building trade apprenticeship programs.
• Hired a new full-time director.

Western NC Workers’ Center

• Hired two more staff to assist workers in the western part of the state.
• Expanded work area into Hendersonville and more outreach with Asian community.
• Organized major immigration march that turned out over 2,000 people.

Cincinnati Workers’ Center

• Recovered over $100,000 unpaid wages through direct action and court or administrative systems.
• Held monthly workers’ rights forums in the community. Printed out personal rights cards for immigrant
workers who are stopped by police.

Workers’ Defense Project (Texas)

• Educated over 2,000 immigrant workers about their rights and how to defend them.
• Recovered over $400,000 in back wages for 380 immigrant workers who have experienced wage theft.
• Successfully defended Day Laborers right to seek work by defeating a proposed Austin anti-solicitation
ordinance that would have criminalized day laborers seeking work in public.

Madison Workers’ Rights Center

• Volume and activity of center has increased to 20-30 volunteers and has seen a significant growth in the
number of workers assisted.
• Organized to create a funding stream for interpreters and thus created more jobs in the community.
• Helped organize immigration marches in Madison that turned out 10-30,000 people in support of just
immigration reform.
• Introduced a paid sick leave ordinance to city council. Even though the ordinance lost by one vote, it
passed in San Francisco, using Madison’s language.

Voces de la Frontera (Wisconsin)

• Organized immigrant-rights marches in Milwaukee and Racine that mobilized over 100,000 people.
• Sponsored “Misa de Fiesta Mexicana – Justice for Immigrants Mass,” in partnership with the Archdiocese
of Milwaukee. The Mass was celebrated with special guest Bishop Gustavo Garcia of Chicago, and was
attended by 23,000 people.
• Hired two new full-time staff.

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 Seminarians for
Worker Justice
Berkeley
• Organized students in supporting workers at the Claremont Hotel.
• Advocated for a living wage campaign for member seminaries at the Graduate Theological Union.

Boston
• Helped organize the labor Seder with the Jewish Labor Council. Forty seminarians and 250 people
participated in the Seder and 40 Rabbis signed a letter agreeing to boycott a hotel, which has a Kosher
Kitchen, where workers were organizing.
• Participated in the Northeast security officer campaign through three rallies. On the Jewish day of
mourning SFWJ and MICWJ presented honey to the supportive building owners that were calling on
Northeast to allow the security officers to organize a union and gave ashes and sack cloth to those who
were not supporting workers. Got the Muslim community involved and did extension outreach to the
black community.
• Worked with a group of janitors that were fired from their jobs and provided pastoral care to them.

Chicago
• Organized a “Blessed Be These Hands Event” in coordination with Interfaith Worker Justice and the
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. A crowd of over 100 heard passionate and inspirational speeches from
Kim Bobo and Rev. Robin Hood on the need for justice, coalition building and how to maintain the
passion to fight back.
• Marched in solidarity with the workers at the Congress Hotel picket line, singing and praying.
• Showed support for Chicago hotel workers. Students participated in marches, rallies and delegations to
help successfully ratify new contracts with four Hyatt and five Starwood hotels. The contracts include
raises in wages, improved benefits and greater protections for the health and safety of workers. Most
impressively, all the Chicago hotel contracts contain language guaranteeing that workers at future hotels
owned or operated by the same companies will have a fair process to unionize.

Columbus, Ohio
• Received recognition as a student organization at Methodist Theological Seminary.
• Hosted a viewing of the Wal-Mart movie, The High Cost of Low Prices, for students to learn more about
the Wal-Mart issue.

Los Angeles
• Led two powerful actions to support hundreds of workers at the Glendale Hilton seeking the right to
organize with neutrality. In March, a mixed group of Jewish, Hindu, and Christian seminarians and
undergraduates organized and led an eat-in at the Glendale Hilton. The students sat at four tables and
a leader at each table prayed for the workers and the sins of the hotel while students and clergy outside
the hotel marched and prayed. In December, students organized an alternative office holiday party
outside the hotel. Over 50 students dressed like angels, marched around the hotel, preformed a play with
children’s participation and had a banquet.
• Organized and provided opportunities for over 22 students to participate in the CLUE California
conference in Northern California.

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 2006 Donors
Foundations Interdenominational Theological Ruzicka & Associates, Ltd (auditing Internship Support Kathryn Bole Melanie Aron
$100,000 to $200,000 Center service)
Seminary Summer Margaret Champlin Richard Aronson*
Ford Foundation – Education, Presbyterian Church USA Urban School Sisters of Notre Dame
AFL-CIO Yunjin Chung Mary Aufmann
Sexuality, Religion Division Ministries Office (furniture)
Change To Win Unions Luz Cuartas James Autenrith
(multi-year) Presbyterian Hunger Program St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church
(parking) Tobias Fisher Dennis Bade
Ford Foundation – Governance School Sisters of Notre Dame Interfaith Worker Justice
and Civil Society Division (multi- (Baltimore, MD) Carmona Francisco Doug Bailey
Summer and Catholic
year) Renee Grogg Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco
United Methodist Church Division Travel and Expenses Social Teaching
Marguerite Casey Foundation on Ministries with Young People Workers and Grain Millers Int’l
Related to Board Karen and Tharwat Abouraya Terrion Keys
(multi-year) Union
Meetings Elizabeth Alvis Jeong-Hyun Kim
Nathan Cummings Foundation Virginia and Clement Balanoff
(multi-year) Unions/Labor AFL-CIO (Ms. Linda Chavez-Thomp- James Autenrith Ju-Young Lee
Jennifer Barger*
Rockefeller Foundation (multi- $100,000 to $200,000 son and Ms. Rosalyn Pelles) Karen Briscoe Jenny Lew
Paula and Hal Baron
year) Service Employees International African Methodist Episcopal Anita Krichmar and Sam Brooks Sylvia Lynch
Church (Rev. Daryl Ingram) Jeanette Bartz
The Annie E. Casey Foundation Union Maryanne Brown George Mandsnukov
American Baptist Churches-USA Howard Basler*
$50,000 to $99,999 $50,000 to $99,999 (Rev. Dr. Aidsand Wright-Rig- Frank J. Corbishley Fallen Michel
John Beaty
Arca Foundation American Federation of Labor and gins III) Creighton University Sila Miesi
Judith Beck*
Congress of Industrial Organiza- Catholic Committee of the South Luz Prieto
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Dusten Crichton Lawrence Becker
tions (Sr. Mary Priniski)
Foundation Adam Ragab
Kathleen Denne Jane Beckett*
French American Charitable Trust $25,000 to $49,999 Council on American-Islamic Rela- Martin Rangel
tions – Southern California (Mr. DePaul University Mike Beckman
Houston Endowment, Inc. UNITE HERE!
Hussam Ayloush) Joanna Marie Diem Mary Reyes
United Food and Commercial Tom Beer
Public Welfare Foundation Jorge Rios
Workers International Union Rev. Darren Cushman-Wood Michael Doan Raymond Behrendt*
$25,000 to $49,999 Mr. Robert De Rose Frank Falco Jose Sanchez
$2,500 to 9,999 Don Beisswenger
Oxfam America Rev. T. Eugene Fisher Susan and Lawrence Frank Teresa Segura
Arizona State Council Communica- Albert Belanger
W.K. Kellogg Foundation General Board of Church and Amy and Steven Groff McKenzie Smith
tions Workers of America Martin Bennett
Wallace Foundation of Arizona Society, United Methodist Church Kyle Stitch
National Association of Letter Donovan Hudson Elizabeth Benson
(Mr. John Hill)
$10,000 to $24,999 Carriers Julie and Jeff Jamison Mary Kay Wright
General Board of Global Ministries, Pamela and Terry Bergdall
21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund United Methodist Church (Ms. Elizabeth Lopez Robert and Sheila Berner
Arizona Community Foundation Individuals Joanne Reich) Loras College Contributions of Charles Bernhardt
Discount Foundation Dr. Mary Heidkamp Margaret Mcconnaughay Less than $2,500
$10,000 to $25,000 Linda Lipsett and Jules Bernstein
New Prospect Foundation Ms. Karen McLean Hessel Janet Murphy 8th Day Center for Justice
Landau Family Foundation Barbara and Alan Bisno
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Jewish FundS for Justice (Rabbi Patrick Quinn Deedra Abboud
Fran Ansley and Jim Sessions Mordechai Liebling) Walter Bissell
$2,500 to 9,999 Fran and Monroe Sullivan Sheila Quinn Lucey Sam Ackerman George Black
Rev. Nelson Johnson
Fund for Southern Communities Jaime Rapaport Alice and Aaron Adler Doris Blake
$2,500 to $9,999 Rabbi Robert Marx
Greensboro Justice Fund Louis Schloderback AFL-CIO of Champaign County Kennith Blan
Beth Janus and Seth Lieberman National Pastoral Life Center (Mr.
Jeffry Korgen) Servite Community African Methodist Episcopal Louise Bobo
Sunflower Foundation
Church
Rev. J. Herbert Nelson The Shadow Group LLC Kim Bobo*
Religious AFSCME
Presbyterian Church, USA (Rev. Robert Skelly
Organizations Businesses & Margaret Ahmann
Marvin Boes
Phil Tom) Michele Sotka William Bole
$50,000 to $99,999 Organizations Mr. Bill Quigley Roula Alakiotou
St. John’s Roman Catholic Church Eric Boria
Unitarian Universalist Association $10,000 to $24,999 Anita Alcantara
Mr. Chris Sanders Jane and William Sutton
of Congregations Regina Botterill*
Amalgamated Life Insurance Rev. Jim Sessions Karen Allen
Unitarian Universalist Service Temple Beth Israel of Maywood Clarita Bourque
Company Allotta, Farley & Widman CO., L.P.A
Committee Rev. Dr. Paul Sherry Pam and Greg Thielmann
Center for Community Change Daniel Boyarin*
Unitarian Universalist Veatch Ms. Evely Laser-Shlensky Joseph Allotta
University of Notre Dame Marge Boyle
Program at Shelter Rock Entrust Capital, Inc. Albert Alschuler
Mr. Monroe Sullivan University of St. Thomas
JP Morgan Chase Eugene Boyle
$25,000 to $49,999 United Church of Christ (Ms. Edie Amalgamated Transit Union
Jane and John Yanagida Tom Brady
$2,500 to 9,999 Rasell and Rev. Ron Stief) – Local 308
Church World Service
Judy Ancel Grace Brame
Community Shares of Illinois Unitarian Universalist Association
$10,000 to $24,999 of Congregations (Ms. Susan Volunteers Jami Anderson Mary Ann Litwiller and Fred
Wal-Mart Watch
Catholic Campaign for Human Leslie) Brancel
Joseph Achura Joanna and David Anderson
Development U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops H. Kurt Brandenburg
Lilian Agasie Barbara Andolsen
National Council of Churches Significant In-Kind (Rev. Clete Kiley and Mr. Thom
Valentina Angelova
Bob Breving
Shellabarger) Anonymous
$2,500 to 9,999 Edgewater Presbyterian Church
Daniel Antunez
Bricklayers Local 21
(office space) Dr. Charles Whitaker Marilyn and Joe Antonik
Church of the Beatitudes Bridge Structural and Reinforcing-
Rev. Bennie Whiten, Jr. Miriam Antunez Archdiocese of Milwaukee – Office
Inner Drive Technology (computer Ironworkers Local Union #1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Miguel Beltran for World Mission
monitors)
America Thomas Broden

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Cynthia Brooks Consolata Missionary Sisters T. Eugene Fisher Sid Gradman J. David Ivers Ruth and Alfred Landsberg
Edward and Joyce Brown Convent of Mary Reparatrix, Inc. Robert Fitzgerald Jill Graham Luther Jackson Thomas Lanigan
Joanna Brown Laurie Coskey Miriam and Richard Flacks Kenneth Greening Shirley James Sayuri and Darrin LaPoint
Pamela Brubaker Norman Cram Dolores and Roger Flaherty Virginia Greenwald Carol Frances Jegen Cindy Larson
Walter Brueggemann Mary Crimmin Joan Flanagan Maureen Gregg Trudi Jenny Eugene Lauer
John Budwick Patricia Crowley Gretchen Focke Nancy and David Griffith John Jerger Diane and David LaVoy
Larry Bueno Robin Curras Forest Printing Al Gross Sandhya Jha Law Offices of Jim Green
Eugene Buhr Jim Cusack Franciscan Justice, Peace and Cheryl Grossman Kermit and Lynn Johnson Law Offices of Jonathan Schlack
Integrity of Creation Office
Susan Bulba Carvulto Susan Dahlberg Antoinette Guerrero Leon Johnson Law Offices of Kurt M. Young, LLC
Judith and Jim Francois
Mary Catherine Bunting Peter Dahlen Sue Gunter Michaela Johnson Thomas Leahy
Alan Fredian
Ed and Nancy Burke* Elizabeth Dale Aina Gutierrez and Doug Karla Johnston-Krase Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen
Patricia Friend Sondgeroth* Lerner
Guerino Calemine David and Elsie Damcke Austin and Marion Jones
Hannah Frisch Bruce Hall Susan Leslie
California School Employees Walter Davis Charese Jordan*
Association Lucille and Frank Fuchs Benjamin Hall* Tom Levinson*
Irene DeMeulenaere Rebekah Jordan
JoAn Pfau Callahan Kathryn and Elliott Fudd Jean Hardisty Kent Lewandowski
Robert DeRose* Linda and James Joyce
Mary Jean and Gene Callahan Marcia and Richard Fung Marienetta Harenza Mil Lieberthal
Kathleen Desmet-Kulka Eva and Anjo Jurek
John Cardiff Helen Gagel Emily Harry Mordechai Liebling
Detroit Province of the Society Andrew Kafel
Bill Carey of Jesus William Gainer Thelma Harry Trent Lierman
Maurice Kammerer
Helen Carlock Steven Deutsch Tracy Gallo Chuck Harry* Spence Limbocker
Michael Kane
Dosia Carlson Tim Dewane Nina and Doug Gamble Harriet Hausman Barbara Hickey and David Linge
Rose Karasti
Roger Carlson Jesse and Annamary DeWitt Joe Gann Ellen and Thomas Hefner Lois and Lowell Livezey
Hubert Kealy
Eliza Carney* Margaret Peggy Dickson Martha Garcia Carole and Marty Hegarty Sue and Art Lloyd
Kirsten and Michael Keefe
Ellen and Stephen Casey Diocese of Salt Lake City Garrett Evangelical Theological Richard Heidkamp Joann Lo
Lucinda Keils
Seminary – Faith Passage
Catholic Charities – Archdiocese Minna Morse and Fred Dobb Sula Bloore and David Heine Mary LoPresti
Tom Kelly
of NY R.H. Garrett-Goodyear
Rachel Abramson and William Cynthia and Richard Heine Joan and Richard Luecke
Dana Marie Kennedy
Catholic Diocese of Tucson Social Dolnick Eric Geist
Joy Heine* Mary Heidkamp and Jim Lund
Mission Glenda Struss-Keys and Marcus
Dominican Sisters Miriam Geraghty
Janice Hendrix Keys Sylvia Lynch*
John Cawley
Dominican Sisters of Hope Josef Germaine
Walter Henry* Karrie Kimble Jessie MacDonald
Central Oklahoma Community
Thomas Donahue Tess and Frank Gerould
Forum Bruce Herman Karen King Nancy MacLean
John Donnell Louise Clark and Jill Ginsberg
Karla and Ronald Chew Stewart Herman Daniel Klawitter Michele Magner
Nancy and Joe Donnelly Lilly Gioia
Chicago Theological Seminary Tina and David Herpe Michael Klein Deloris and Donald Mahoney
Sally and Randall Doubet King Jonathon Glassman
Susan Chinn Karen Herrling Sharon Kleinbaum Pamela Burnley and Russell
Lenore Dowling Tom Glennon Malchow
Norine Chip Milton Herst Thomas Kluzak
Bill Droel The Gober Law Firm Alma Manney
Lynda Choate Julie Dorfman and Jerry Herst Paul Knauer
Jim DuPont Athena and Jean Francois Godet- James Manoussoff
Christ the King Roman Catholic Karen McLean Hessel Steven Knight
Calogeras
Church John Dwyer* Kathy Brazda and Therese Marczyk
LaVerne Hickey Kathryn and Thomas Kochan
Laurence Gold
Church of Our Saviour Melvin Hoover and Rose Edington Eliezer Margolis
Donna Hicks Patricia Kollmer
Iain Gold*
Church Women United in Madison Frank and Rebecca Eichenlaub Catherine Markey
Brenda Hicks Jeff Korgen
Wisconsin, Inc. Edwin Goldberg
Lauren Ekdahl Joe Marlin
Connie and David Higgins Chaim Koritzinsky
Jose Cisneros Ruth Weisman Goldboss
Bruce Elder Robert Marx
Mary Pat Hill Marguerite and Ed Kowaleski
H. Jean Bryan and Thom Clark W. Evan Golder
Phyllis and John Eldridge Thomas Massaro
Audrey and George Hinger Ingrid Christiansen and Jody
Bill Clower Joanne Goldstein
Eleanor Humes Haney Fund Kretzmann Michael Matejka
Mary Jo Hoag
Robert and Pat Coats Mario Gonzalez
Elite on Jarvis Kermit Krueger Mary Jo Matheny
Nora Hochman
Celia Cody Bambi Good
Betty and Norman Elkin John Kruse Alan and Kathy Mays
Phyllis and Leonard Hockley
Catherine Cody Bill and Mary Good
Janet Essley Robert Krzewinski Pat and Charlaine McAnany
Charles Hogan
John Colborn Good Shepherd – United Church
Victor Farah Michael Kuhn Pat and Don McCabe
of Christ Larry Hollar
Maury Collins Norman Faramelli Richard Kulick Joseph McCartin
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Judy Holmes
Neil Comess-Daniels Jean and Joseph Faulkner Alexia Kulwiec James McClure
Annica Gorham* Liza Jean Holt
Community of Reconciliation Ron Faust The Labor Guild-Archdiocese of Pat McCormick
Church Charlotte and Charles Gosselink Aimee Horton
Boston
Tim Fay Nancy McCormick*
Joan Compton Dorothy Gosting Robert Horwitz
Laborers’ International Union of
Margaret Feit-Clarke Marie Therese McDermott
Congregation of the Sisters of Jean and Harry Gottlieb Irma and Robert Howarth North America
St. Francis Cindy Fennelly Ann and Isaac McDonald
Denis Goulet Howard Hubbard John Lackey
Ernst Conrad Katherine Ferguson Jack Metzgar
Thomas Gradel Sharon Hyson Mary Pat Lambke
Nancy Lee Conrad Mary Faith and Marc Ferretto Jamie McGowan
Margaret Gradl IF/W.H.E.N. Jeannette Lampron
First Congregational Church Regina McGraw*

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Clifton McIntosh Marilyn Pagan-Banks* Meg Riley Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Nancy J. and Charles D. Striffler Kay Vlahos
John McKnight Ronald Pagnucco Rivier College, Religious Studies Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Donald Stumpf Theodore Von Der Ahe
Faculty Virgin Mary
Kathleen McNally Charles Paidock Margie Jean and Douglas Sturm Roger Waha
Erika Robers Sisters of Divine Providence
Ann McNeary Barbara Paleczny Bernadette Sullivan Michael Wallace
Ralph Robers Sisters of Saint Dominic – Congre-
Ambryn Melius Joan Panaro Jack Sullivan Marjorie Wallin
gation of the Most Holy Name
Julie Roberts
Pauline and Andrew Michaud Arlene Paolicchi Edward Sunshine Scott Walters
Sisters of Saint Dominic-Racine
Philip Roberts*
Linda and Joseph Michon Julie Keleman and Toby Paone Dominicans Andrew Susman Jennifer Ward
Michael Robinson
Rita and Richard Middendorf Pete Paraskevoulakos Sisters of Saint Francis of the Christopher James Swanson Phyllis Berman and Arthur
Lawrence Robinson Holy Cross Waskow
Claire and Bob Miller Segene Park Mary Sweetland Laver
Deborah and Bob Rodecker Sisters of Saint Joseph of Patricia Watkins
Bill Miller Marjorie and George Parker Mary and Michael Swiontoniowski
Maureen Rodgers Carondelet Burton Wax
Mary Jane and Peter Milne Carol Parker Phillip Tabbita
Sharon Roedl Sisters of St. Francis Molly Dula and Alex Weber
Missionary Sisters Servants of the Lindsey Parker Robin Talbert
Holy Spirit Jen Roitman Sisters of St. Joseph Sue Weishar
Paul McAndrew Law Firm Ellen Partridge and Ed Tanzman
Lisa Mitchell Raymundo Eli Rojas Sisters, Servants of the Immacu- Arnie Welber
Erwin Pauly late Heart of Mary Allan Taylor
Teresa Mithen* Charles Romstad Herbert Ziegeldorf and Carol
Rosalyn Pelles Nancy and John Slais Temple Beth Israel
Westerlund
Nancy and Nicholas Mohr Roofers Local Union 96
Kathleen Perry David Smith Temple Emunah Inc.
Sondra Wheeler
Monastery of St. Gertrude Diane Roseman Baer
May and Winston Persaud Joseph Smith Noelle Tennis Gulden
James White, Jr.
Nina Polcyn Moore Carl Rosen
Barbara Pfarr Frank and Isabelle Smith Bert Thelen
Evelyn and James Whitehead
Mary Morollo Joel Rosenblit
Hermine and Leo Philippe Rosemary Sokas F. William Thetford
Sue Sporte and Bennie Whiten
Calvin Morris Manuel Rosiles
Maxine Phillips Harriet and Rav Soloff Ethel Thiery
Donald Wiener
Christopher Morton David Russell
Kathy Phillips Betty Solomon Maria Timoney
Dick Wiesenhahn
Daniel Moss Cindi Saguibo*
Sheila and John Pigott Elisabeth Solomon Phil Tom
Betty Willhoite
Mount Tabor Benedictines Beverly and Steven Salituro
Daniel Pisony Daniel Solomon Martha Tonn
Charles Williams
Greg Mount Edward Salmon
Deborah Stone and Timothy Pitzer Scott Sommer Elizabeth Traube
Susan Williams
Craig Mousin Saint John’s Abbey
Pat Plant Nathan Sooy Fran and Claudia Travis
Bob Williamson
Eileen Murphy San Diego Imperial Labor Council
Judith Plaskow Joanne Kalnitz and Marshall Sorkin Samuel Trickey
Wilmette Lutheran Church
Carol Murphy Barbara and Hugh Sanborn
James Ploeser Nicholas Spilotro J. William Troy
Tim Wilson
Susan Greene and Pat Murray Florence Scala
Richard Poethig Toba Spitzer Megan and Bob Tschannen-Moran
Jeanne Wingenter
Lucia and Jack Murtaugh Gail Schechter
Pointers, Cleaners & Caulkers Sara Spoonheim Don and Bernadette Turner
Albert Winn
Mary Myers – Local 52 Michelle Schiffgens
Elizabeth and Theodore St. Antoine Margaret Tweet*
Pauline Wohlford
Myron M. Cherry & Associates, LLC David Polich Andrew Schleicher
St. Augustine University Parish UFCW Local 1116
Doris Wojtala
David Nack Joan and Bob Pope Maralee Gordon and Leo
St. Catherine of Siena – St. Lucy UFCW Local 789 AFL-CIO
Schlosberg Alice Woldt
Cynthia Nance* Luz Maria Prieto
St. Hilary Church UFCW, Local 2008
Patty and John Schmidt Kenneth Wolfe
Mark Needle Mary Priniski*
St. Joseph Church Glenmary Com- Masood Ul-Hasan
School Sisters of Notre Dame Muriel Wolff
Carla and Enrique Neufeld Kenneth Purcell mission on Justice Tom and Cathy Ulrich
Martha Schultz Brad Wood
New World Foundation Erma Purnell St. Kevins Catholic Church UNITE HERE-Chicago and Midwest
A.J. Schumacher Harold and Sylvia Woods
New York City Central Labor Bill Quigley St. Nicholas Church Regional Joint Board
Council Jo Ann Schwartz* Celine and Don Woznica
Annie Quinn St. Norbert College United Church of Christ Justice and
Amy Newell Jeremy Schwartz Witness Ministries Janet Yocum
Kathryn Radinovsky St. Patrick’s Parish
Doug Niehouse Dorothy Schwendinger University of Florida Donald Zampa
Abe Raich St. Paul Catholic Center
Janet and Donald Niemeyer SEIU Illinois Council University United Methodist Helen Zandler
Edith Rasell St. Scholastica Monastery Church
Anne Nolan* Seminary Consortium for Urban Marianne and Ted Zelewsky*
Barbara Ravid St. Thomas the Apostle Church
Pastoral Education Urban Equities – Real Estate
Notre Dame de Chicago Zion Lutheran Church
M. Elizabeth Eason and Brad St. Timothy Community Church Consultants, Inc.
Erika Poethig and Ray Sendejas
Anne Novak* Rayson Mary Zopf
Jim Stahler Terry and Marsha Uselton
Servite Fathers Assumption Church
Jackie Nowell Margaret and David Read
Elizabeth Stake Michael and Janet Valder
Fatih Shakir
Joyce and Bill O’Connell Mary Rehmann * Monthly Pledger
Marilyn Steenwyk Caryl Vande Voort
Catherine Shannon
Mary O’Connell Williams Joanne Reich
Brian Stefan-Szittai Beth Vande Voort
Sidney Shapiro
Beth O’Connor Patricia Reichart
Tom Stephens Sarah Vanderwicken
Polly Murphy and H. Todd Shelton
Jane O’Grady Joy Reis
Joshua Steward Barbara and Richard Vanecko
Francele Sherburne
Paula and Quentin Ogren Sheila Reynolds
Josephine Stewart Laura Cheifetz and Jessica Vazquez
Paul Sherry
Jack O’Malley William Rhines Torres*
Evely Laser Shlensky Milton Stohs
Joan Polacheck and Jonah Orlofsky David Rhoads Verderaime & DuBois, P.A.
Chuck Shuford Suzanne and Earl Strassberger
Sean O’Sullivan Lynn Rhodes Miguel Villanueva
Beth Shulman Marlies Carruth and Paul Strauss
Sinclair Oubre* Ridgeview Baptist Church Pauline Villapando
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Bonita Strauss
Susan Ozuk Ann Riggs

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 2006 Board of Directors
President: Rev. Nelson Johnson, Pulpit Forum of Greensboro and Faith Community Church
Vice-President: Bishop Gabino Zavala, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Public Policy Chair: Ms. Edith Rasell, Justice and Witness Ministries, United Church of Christ
Organizing Chair: Ms. Evely Laser Shlensky, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism (URJ and CCAR)
Communications Chair: Mr. Charles Whitaker, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Finance and Fundraising Chairs: Rev. Dr. Paul Sherry, National Council of Churches; Rev. Jim Sessions, United
Methodist Church/Jobs With Justice
Board Development Chair: Imam Mahdi Bray, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
Dr. Charles Amjad-Ali, Luther Seminary
Mr. Hussam Ayloush, Council on American-Islamic Relations of Southern California
Rev. John C. Boonstra, Washington Association of Churches
Ms. Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO
Rev. Darren Cushman-Wood, Speedway United Methodist Church
Mr. Robert DeRose, Barkan + Neff Law Offices
Rev T. Eugene Fisher, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Dr. Mary Heidkamp, Dynamic Insights International
Ms. Karen McLean Hessel,* Consultant
Rev. Daryl B. Ingram, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. Clete Kiley,* The Faith and Politics Institute
Mr. Jeffry Korgen, National Pastoral Life Center
Ms. Susan Leslie, Unitarian Universalist Association
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Shefa Fund
Ms. Linda Lotz, American Friends Service Committee
Rabbi Robert Marx,** Congregation Hakafa
Ms. Cynthia Nance,* University of Arkansas Law School
Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, Liberation Community Church/Mid-South Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
Rev. Sinclair Oubre, Apostleship of the Sea/Catholic Labor Network
Ms. Rosalyn Pelles, Dept. of Civil, Human and Women’s Rights, AFL-CIO
Sr. Mary Priniski, OP, Catholic Committee of the South
Mr. Bill Quigley, Loyola Poverty Law Center
Ms. Joanne Reich, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church
Rev. Meg Riley, Unitarian Universalist Association
Rev. Michael J. Rouse,* St. Catherine AMEZ Church
Mr. J. Chris Sanders, UFCW
Mr. Thomas Shellabarger, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Rev. Ron Stief, Justice and Witness Ministries, United Church of Christ
Mr. Monroe Sullivan, Retired Businessman/Social Activist
Rev. Phil Tom, Urban Ministry Office, Presbyterian Church USA
Rev. Mark Wendorf, Interfaith Council for the Homeless
Rev. Bennie Whiten, Jr., United Church of Christ
Rev. Dr. Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins III, National Ministries, American Baptist Churches USA

Special Advisors
Bishop Jesse DeWitt,** Retired, United Methodist Church
Rev. Jim Lawson, Holman United Methodist Church
Rev. Joseph Echols Lowery, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Rev. Addie Wyatt, Vernon Park Church of God

* Former Board Officer ** Former Board President

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2006 INCOME & EXPENSES

Other
6%
Individuals
8%

Total Income Religious

Organizations
$1,874,540 11%
Foundations
56%

Unions
19%

Management
& General
11%

Fundraising
11% Total Expenses
$1,835,459
Program
78%

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