4/9, FRIDAY @ 9:00 AM > Roundtable Strategy Meeting on Jobs Crisis in NYC

4/9 Roundtable Strategy Meeting on Jobs Crisis,
convened by National Jobs for All Coalition

Friday, April 9 - 9:00 AM -- Classroom 19C (19th Floor)
c/o The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
CUNY
25 West 43rd Street
New York, New York

Dear friends,

Thanks very much to all of you who attended or helped organize the March 26 "Jobs Crisis and What to Do About It" event at the Joseph S. Murphy Center for Worked Education and Labor Studies.

The strong turnout for the event demonstrates that there is broad public interest in addressing the crisis in the availability of living wage jobs for all. And the strong, compelling presentations at the forum highlighted smart public policy ideas for job creation and full employment that can make a tremendous difference in improving the economy, meeting human needs and improving working hours and wages for American workers.

To continue the discussion, the National Jobs for All Coalition is convening a roundtable meeting to discuss strategy ideas for working together on job creation and full employment issues in the NY metro area.

Our proposed agenda will focus on:

- Short-term efforts in the current session of Congress to support pending jobs legislation, which at best aims to create 1 or 2 million jobs

- The need for a much larger, transformative jobs bill that creates 6-18 million additional jobs, and a right for all to a living wage job.

- Ways we could collaborate in the New York area to advance this agenda by engaging in:

• Public education programs, such as additional events and conferences
• Legislative action
• Coalition-building and networking to mobilize a broad range of labor, community, religious and human needs organizations
• Public actions such as press conferences, demonstrations or other types of broad-based mobilizations. (One such model for this is the “First Friday” actions to call attention the monthly release of unemployment statistics by the Department of Labor.)
• Funding and resource-sharing and mobilization – because we know it will take money and paid organizing staff to achieve the bold agenda that is needed.

We hope that you will be able to attend the roundtable and contribute your ideas and individual and/or organizational support.

RSVP -- Please RSVP to jobsconference [at] njfac.org to let us know if you'll be able to attend and/or have ideas or agenda items you'd like to contribute for the discussion.

Thanks very much in advance for your interest. We look forward to seeing you on Friday at the Murphy Center.

Sincerely,

Chuck Bell, Vice Chair
National Jobs for All Coalition
http://www.jobscampaign.org/
http://www.njfac.org/
http://www.drivefordecentwork.org/