Jobs With Justice is a national campaign for workers rights and for social justice with active chapters in 40 cities across the United States. As it gears up for its annual national meeting later this summer, Jobs With Justice is more focused than ever on providing a way for people to come together around a common agenda with concrete actions. JWJ's Fred Azcarate says the rights of workers to organize and health care are among the organization's top priorities.

[Fred Azcarate 1] : "It's really hard times for working people. I think we're seeing with Jobs and Justice, you know, in our coalitions, that more and more organizations and individual activists who care about the issues that affect working families are trying to figure out ways to come together."

As the labor movement struggles to find the best way to advance worker power and win social and economic justice for working families Azcarate says unity is key.

[Azcarate 2] : "You know, we're in a period of time where the enemies of working families are gaining more strength and we need to commit - you know all of us need to commit ourselves to building more power for workers and communities -
and continually find ways to work together to do that, right? And that's what we want to stay focused on."

The Jobs With Justice national annual meeting this year will be in St, Louis in September.