SAN DIEGO INTERFAITH COMMITTEE
FOR WORKER JUSTICE
(San Diego ICWJ)

Founded in 1998, San Diego ICWJ is a grassroots, faith-based, action-oriented organization of clergy and people of faith who lift up the issues of the low-wage worker in San Diego County.

Their mission is to educate and mobilize the San Diego religious community to support issues and campaigns that will sustain lives with dignity for workers and their families through such means as improving wages, benefits, and working conditions. San Diego ICWJ challenges both an economic system that allows working families to live in poverty and a society that does not invest in its workers.

Their accomplishments include: involvement in winning passage of San Diego's new Living Wage policy; support for University of California service workers through a three-month campaign that ended in a successful contract; assistance to airport janitors in their campaign to win family health care and higher wages; support for the successful struggle of hotel workers to win a fair contract, and partnership with San Diego janitors to win full family health care.

San Diego ICWJ, which has a staff of five, both paid and volunteer, represents many of the major faith communities in the region, which in turn are represented on their Board of Directors. Their formal membership includes several hundred individuals and institutions and additional involvement from hundreds of members of local congregations.

They work closely with the Center on Policy Initiatives and other progressive and labor organizations in the San Diego area. Please visit their website by clicking here. (http://www.onlinecpi.org/programs_interfaith.html)

Contact info.:
Rabbi Laurie Coskey, Ed.D.,
Executive Director

E-mail:
rabbilaurie@icwj.org

Phone:
(619) 584-5744, x 22

Fax:
(619) 584-5748

Address:
San Diego Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
3727 Camino Del Rio South #100
San Diego, CA 92108