CEJ Buffalo

CEJ Buffalo CEJ wins dynamic campaigns by uniting labor, faith, and community leaders

CEJ was formed in 1986 when religious and labor leaders organized a campaign together to stop good manufacturing jobs from being outsourced to Mexico by the Trico corporation. Since our founding, CEJ has collaborated with a wide array of partners to win local campaigns for corporate and government accountability, sustainable economic development, and worker justice. CEJ has also taken its fight to

Albany, recognizing that too often decisions impacting our local communities are made at the state level. CEJ is the co-anchor of a statewide alliance of worker and community groups and has been at the forefront of the fight for reform of wasteful economic development programs. As an extension of our issue work we engage in voter education and engagement – registering new voters, encouraging occasional voters to become more active participants in our democracy, and providing all voters with information about where candidates stand on our issues. The Coalition for Economic Justice is one of 42 community-labor coalitions nationwide that comprise the national Jobs with Justice network, as well as the NY State Labor-Religion Coalition.

📣📣Action Alert📣📣Local Starbucks Workers will be joining the national strike tomorrow 12/24/2024! What better way to get ...
12/23/2024

📣📣Action Alert📣📣

Local Starbucks Workers will be joining the national strike tomorrow 12/24/2024! What better way to get into the holiday spirit than a good ole fashion picket line. Come out the an action tomorrow at 933 Elmwood Ave (14222) at 12pm to stand in solidarity with Starbucks Workers United

And remember, don't cross the picket line!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12CX64VK8bQ/

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from any Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. Workers are on strike in response to Starbucks backtracking on our agreed-upon "path forward" over the future of organizing and collective bargaining. During negotiations this month, the company offered an insulting economic package with NO immediate wage increases.

This year, Starbucks invested $113 million into CEO Brian Niccol's compensation package at a time when baristas' wages aren't keeping up with the cost of inflation. Workers regularly struggle to receive the hours we need to qualify for benefits and pay our bills.

You can support striking baristas by electing to not shop at Starbucks while our strikes continue to escalate through Christmas Eve. Additionally, we're asking allies to host actions in their communities across the country - head over to tinyurl.com/SBWU-canvass to learn more and sign-up!

12/19/2024

Amazon Teamsters on strike!!

12/05/2024
Please consider supporting CEJ Buffalo and the work we are a part of in the community, including workforce development, ...
12/03/2024

Please consider supporting CEJ Buffalo and the work we are a part of in the community, including workforce development, transit justice advocacy, and labor solidarity

https://bit.ly/SupportCEJ

11/28/2024

❄️❄️Looking like snow this weekend❄️❄️

If you're willing to help shovel out your neighbors, please fill out the form below! If you've filled out the form previously years we ask you to fill it out again so we have an updated list.


https://bit.ly/BMANSnowBrigadeOfferForm

Milk Bone workers on strike!
11/17/2024

Milk Bone workers on strike!

BCTGM Local 36G on strike for Unfair Labor Practices! We are the workers of Milkbone (… Bruce Lucas needs your support for Support Milkbone Workers On Strike

If your feed and conversations look anything like mine today, you are likely seeing a lot of anger, shock, grief, remind...
11/06/2024

If your feed and conversations look anything like mine today, you are likely seeing a lot of anger, shock, grief, reminders to drink water, the breaking down of data and numbers, lists of organizations and campaigns to join, reminders that folks are not experiencing this as a new pain, calling in of people who are, and a whole host of other big, real feelings about this moment. I am still piecing together how I feel. We are all holding a lot.

One thing that has been coming up for me is the original concept of self care, as was spoken into the world by Audre Lorde in her book A Burst of Light, before the idea was whitewashed and co-opted to further feed capitalist interests. The idea of radical self care as community care. This isn’t bubble baths and scented candles, this is about creating the healing we need to sustain collectively. Check in with each other. Share food, snow shovels, ideas, needs, wants. Meet with each other, with intention. Plan together. Organize. What does your body/spirit/heart/community need? Who can support you? What has to be built to get you what you need? Whether your need is a filling meal and unmitigated access to healthcare. None of this is said lightly or with nonchalance. We're talking about building power in a system that does not want us to have power. About sustaining in a system that thrives on us left wanting. But power and sustainability can and must be built together.

We don’t know for sure what is coming. What we do know is there is work to be done and that the way through is with our people. We take care of us.

CEJ is working on transit justice, workforce development, labor solidarity, and with the Buffalo Mutual Aid Network. If some of your needs fall into those areas, we are happy to talk with you and get you involved. If your needs lands outside of what we have capacity for, I’m also happy to connect you with an organization or campaign working on what you care about. If that doesn’t exist yet, I will do what I can to help get you trained in organizing and support however I can.

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare” -Audre Lorde

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” --Audre Lorde

📣Action Alert📣
10/29/2024

📣Action Alert📣

10/02/2024
10/02/2024
Happy Labor Day!!
09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day!!

It's almost that time!!2024 CEJ Annual Award Celebration
08/27/2024

It's almost that time!!

2024 CEJ Annual Award Celebration

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