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“I am excited to see Governor Murphy sign the Occupational Licensing bill into law. Today New Jersey has taken one step closer to making our state a fair place for everyone to live and work. DACA and TPS holders, who are at risk of losing their certificate to practice in their chosen fields, will benefit and will be able to continue to contribute. The full effect of this law will finally be seen in the coming years. As an organizer of day laborers, I talk to many who in their home countries studied welding, electricity and plumbing, but cannot practice here. Today, the door is open for all New Jersey residents who aspire to work in a certified field.” Kevin Escobar, Wind of the Spirit
Bill A4225 expands access to professional or occupational licenses for all New Jerseyans, regardless of immigration status.
Unnecessary restrictions prevent hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents from obtaining occupational licenses to become doctors, teachers, nurses, manicurists, carpenters, HVAC technicians or engineers, among other occupations.
The fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage
The Fight for $15 is a global movement that sought to raise wages for low-wage workers in early 2012, when 200 fast food restaurant workers in New York City walked off their jobs to demand $15 an hour and union rights.
Today, the movement is present in more than 300 cities on six continents and includes fast food restaurant workers, home health care aides, child care teachers, airport workers, adjunct professors, retail employees, and low-paid workers everywhere.
Locally, Wind of the Spirit fought for and won a $15 minimum wage increase that was phased in over 5 years. The next phase of this ongoing battle will be to ensure that this hard-won increase is extended to tipped workers, agricultural workers and others in informal sectors such as domestic workers.
While large corporations continue to reap the benefits of their workers’ productivity, those benefits are not distributed equitably, leaving workers struggling to survive. Workers cannot support themselves and their families on minimum wage, so The Fight for $15 continues to organize and call for wage increases for workers across the country and around the world.
More information:
https://fightfor15.org/why-we-strike
Driver’s Licenses for All
The year 2019 was successful after winning the New Jersey Driver’s License Act for immigrants! Persons living in New Jersey are now eligible to obtain a NJ driver’s license, regardless of their legal status or lack of documentation.
The law signed by Governor Phil Murphy in December 2019, after a lengthy debate in Trent, allows for the issuance of the standard driver’s license to immigrants regardless of their legal status. Licenses are also available for seniors, survivors of domestic violence, ex-prisoners and homeless people who may lack documentation.
Fair and Welcoming Communities
New Jersey has a moral obligation to provide a safe and welcoming haven for all of its residents. The Just and Welcoming Communities campaign works to build trust between immigrant communities and state and local law enforcement by advocating that law enforcement resources be used only for state and local purposes, not for federal immigration enforcement. The campaign to have New Jersey declared a Fair and Welcoming State will help strengthen our communities and end the state’s complicity in cruel and unjust deportations.
In New Jersey, 13 municipalities and counties have passed fair and welcoming resolutions. This set the stage for New Jersey Attorney General Grubir Grewal to approve a directive limiting communication between New Jersey law enforcement agencies and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
See New Jersey Immigrant Trust Directive:
https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases18/pr20181129a.html
No Human Being is Illegal.
In 2018 alone, more than 1000 people participated in “No Human Being is Illegal” workshops to build bridges between immigrants and non-immigrants
In Wind of the Spirit, the No Human Being is Illegal workshop integrates legal, historical and religious explanations of why no human being is illegal. No two workshops are exactly alike, as each workshop is customized for each group. However, the following topics are included in each workshop: the difference between civil and criminal law, “welcoming the stranger” as a central theme in all major religions, and the history of past ethnic/cultural assimilations versus the current wave.
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