Thursday, January 1, 2009

Co-Sponsor and Fund the National Conference to Create Living-Wage Jobs!

You Are Invited to Be a Conference Convenor/Co-Sponsor: We seek broad participation and sponsorship for the National Conference to Create Living-Wage Jobs, especially organizations with a primary focus on the quality and quantity of jobs, economic justice, social security, the safety net and poverty prevention.

Other critical participants will be organizations not primarily concerned with employment, but whose goals for union rights, health care, education, child care, elder care, disability rights, housing, economic restructuring, public transportation, environmental sustainability, and the arts would be furthered by job creation in their areas of interest.

The hope is to gain their ongoing commitment to conquering unemployment and low wages-- even after the crisis subsides. This would build on a plans of the National Jobs for All Coalition and the Chicago Political Economy Group to simultaneously create living wage jobs for all and, through a renewed public sector, to repair our deeply deficient social and physical infrastructure.

As unemployment spiked this year, over 7.5 million people have lost their jobs, leaving 15 million Americans unemployed. Millions more are underemployed, and many have seen their hours cut even further. The US needs a strong social movement that will fight for good living wage jobs for all in bad times and good times. But to move forward, we need to come together and develop a shared strategy for how we can be successful.

Can you help? Please download the conference sponsorship form, or print out this page and return the attached contact information.

____ YES! We need strong, effective action to solve the unemployment crisis and create living wage, environmentally sustainable jobs for all . We want to participate as early supporters of this Call to Action for a National Conference to Create Living Wage Jobs.

__ CONVENOR LEVEL ORGANIZATION OR INDIVIDUAL ($5,000 or more)

__ CO-SPONSORING ORGANIZATION OR INDIVIDUAL ($2,500 or more)

__ SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION or INDIVIDUAL ($1,000 or more)

__ CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATION or INDIVIDUAL ($200 or more)

__ ENDORSER OF THE CALL TO ACTION


NAME OF ORGANIZATION or INDIVIDUAL:

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ADDRESS:____________________________________

CITY/STATE/ZIP:______________________________

CONTACT:____________________________________

TITLE:_______________________________________

PHONE:______________________________________

E-MAIL:______________________________________


MAIL TO:

National Jobs for All Coalition,
c/o Council on International & Public Affairs [CIPA]
777 United Nations Plaza, Suite 3C,
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-972-9877
Fax: 212-972-9878

Web: http://www.jobsconference.org/
NJFAC Primary Site: http://www.njfac.org/
NJFAC Blog: http://www.drivefordecentwork.org/
Email: JobsConference@njfac.org

Fund the Conference!! We also invite foundations and major donors to contribute funds to help pay for core conference expenses, and for a travel scholarship fund to support participation of low-income activists and organizers from around the U.S.

Please let us know if your foundation or charitable fund can help to support this unique effort to convene a broad range of organizations to develop a common agenda to reinvigorate organizing and advocacy for full employment and good jobs for all.

Conference Agenda & Publicity Materials

Download the Conference Program:

Conference Brochure with agenda (PDF)

Conference Agenda (Word)

Download Conference Flyers:

Conference Booklet with partial speaker list, endorsers & Call to Action (PDF)

Contact the Conference Organizers




Our conference organizing committee is in formation and includes a broad range of community, religious and labor groups, and groups that work to meet infrastructure and public service needs. (See list of initial endorsers in conference description.)

We welcome other groups to support the conference as co-convenors or supporting organizations.

The National Jobs for All Coalition, the conference's initial convenor and sponsor, is committed to building a new movement for full employment at livable wages. This goal unites a diverse group of otherwise divided, single-issue constituencies. The Coalition includes individuals and organizations with a wide range of interests--workers', women's, children's and seniors' rights, civil rights, and economic justice. Others work on health care, the environment, economic conversion, are academics, social workers and lawyers, artists or simply concerned individuals. The goals of all of us would be easier to reach if there were jobs for all at decent wages.

Contact:

National Jobs for All Coalition,
c/o Council on International & Public Affairs [CIPA]
777 United Nations Plaza, Suite 3C
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-972-9879
Fax: 212-972-9878

Web: http://www.jobsconference.org/
NJFAC Primary Site: http://www.njfac.org/
NJFAC Blog: http://www.drivefordecentwork.org/
Email: JobsConference@njfac.org

Hotels and Accomodations

Hotels and overnight accomodations in Manhattan and the New York metro area can be very expensive, and they fill up fast. If possible, you may want to consider staying with friends and/or splitting a room with a friend.

We've posted list of nearby hotels here:>> http://decentwork.googlegroups.com/web/Accomodations.pdf?gsc=SXqeJgsAAACWKiwL5tCOc6dXtpCFDOgf

In addition, to the hotels on this list, budget-minded travellers may also want to consider the
New York International AYH-Hostel, 891 Amsterdam Avenue @ 104th Street, (212) 932-2300.

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If you can OFFER housing to out-of-town visitors for 1-2 nights, or know of other good affordable hotels or accomodations in NYC, please let us know. Send an email to JobsConference@njfac.org or call 914 830 0639.

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