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As an organization that pursues the shared agenda of both the trade union movement and the organized Jewish community, the Jewish Labor Committee plays a unique role as the bridge between the two. The JLC is deeply involved in many issues of immediate and pressing concern to the Jewish community. We seek to build support for the State of Israel, to fight for the rights of East European Jewry, to further the teaching of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, to promote a pluralistic workplace and society, to combat anti-Semitism, and to otherwise enhance the security of Jewish communities around the world. In these efforts, the JLC has been able to turn for critical and powerful support to the organized labor movement at the local, national, and international levels. The JLC is also actively involved in the trade union movement. We seek to advance the rights of working men and women by mobilizing support from the Jewish community and the general public for the labor movement in its efforts to organize and represent American workers, by promoting the use of union services and products, by supporting the maintenance and advancement of labor standards, and by supporting legislation that will improve the lives of working Americans.To these ends, the JLC works on an ongoing basis with local, national, and international Jewish agencies to advance the broad social agenda of the labor movement that we firmly believe is of benefit to all people. Because of the interests of the Jewish community and the labor movement are so compatible, in many instances our primary role is to bring these like-minded communities together. Both share a deep and abiding commitment to democracy, human rights, and social justice. Both recognize that their own well-being depends on the acceptance of those values of home and abroad, and this enlightened self-interest has led them to adopt common positions on most issues of public policy. Their common interests call for each to continue to strengthen the other in a coalition for the welfare of our country and people. |
The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics. The role of Jews and unions in the dynamic Boyle Heights based coalitions of the 1940s is central to his examination of coalitions politics. These Latino-Jewish coalitions continued through the long struggles for fair employment legislation and the UFW campaigns, and in Westside support for Mayor Villaraigosa. 
The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) will honor Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) Western Region President Michael Nye on December 7. Nye is being honored for his years of dedication to the CFT and for his dedication to the labor movement.