Jewish Labor Committee

Since reconstituting the Cleveland Jewish Labor Committee, “we have been busy with our outreach work to connect the Jewish and Labor communities,” Cleveland JLC Treasurer John W. Ryan says. Among their recent activities were:
* assuring more Jewish communal construction projects are built union by stimulating discussion with their construction resource committee;
* holding events bringing together the Jewish and labor communities, including a breakfast briefing and Labor Seders;
* attempting to resolve a dispute between the IBEW and a local business owned by a Jewish individual, when the employer gutted the existing contract, including stripping away Jewish holidays;
* joining the community campaign against anti-workers practices at Wal-Mart;
* constructing, with volunteers including members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, a Sukkah for working-class residents of the Cedar Center Apartments.