Over two weekends in March, WIN congregational leaders brought 162 people together to learn about the organization’s work and to take action on two critical campaigns: a campaign in solidarity with public employees and a campaign in solidarity with Twin Cities hospital workers.

The organizing began in January, when 20 congregational leaders gathered to organize an action designed to get more people of faith involved in WIN’s work. In February, 80 people gathered at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, learned more about these two campaigns, and committed themselves to hosting house parties and gatherings to spread the word. [Read more →]

WIN leaders have been organizing since last November to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation at the federal level that would make it easier for workers to form unions and harder for employers to interfere with and punish union supporters. Worker leaders from WIN’s Interfaith Center for Worker Justice and Congregational Leaders organizing in their religious communities have collected over 1000 postcards calling on Congress to pass the legislation. [Read more →]

Today, December 18, 23 Indian workers who are fighting to enforce human trafficking laws in this country will begin a fast in the Cass County jail, where they are being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. They will be joined by Congressman Keith Ellison and 29 religious leaders and clergy, who will demand that ICE release these workers and that the DOJ prosecute the traffickers. Join Congressman Ellison at a press conference at 2:30 today. Background on the issue and what you can do after the jump…

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