FRESC's Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice is part of a network of faith-labor partnerships affiliated through Interfaith Worker Justice in Chicago.  Interfaith Worker Justice mobilizes the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers in low-wage jobs.

Principles honoring workers' basic human rights can be found in the tenants of all major religions.

The Hebrew Scripture:
The work of justice will be peace.  (Isaiah 32:17)

The Talmud:
He who withholds an employee’s wages is as though he deprived him of his life.  (Baba Metzia 111a)

The Christian Bible Scripture:
Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out.  (James 5:4)

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH):
When you hire, compensate your workers and treat them fairly.

From the Buddha’s teaching on metta, loving kindness
May all beings be happy.
May they be joyous and live in safety.

Members of the IWJ-CO Leadership Team march at DU against Sodexo's unfair labor practices, April, 2010.

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The Leadership Team of the Interfaith Worker Justice Committee of Colorado is:

• Rev. Daniel Klawitter, FRESC for Good Jobs and Strong Communities
• Rabbi Joel R. Schwartzman, Congregation B’nai Chaim, Morrison, CO
• Rev. Linda Gertenbach, Peace with Justice Facilitator, Rocky Mountain Conf. of the United Methodist Church
• Rev. Anne Dunlap, Pastor, Liberation Community, Denver
• Dr. Dana W. Wilbanks, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics, Iliff School of Theology
• Br. David Garner, O.S.B., Prior of the Grey Robed Monks of St. Benedict, Denver
• Rev. Mariah Hayden, Pastor, Warren United Methodist Church, Denver
  

Click here to read the Statement From Colorado Clergy and Religious Leaders Opposed to Ballot Amendments 47, 49 and 54.

Read About a New Book Featuring Rev. Klawitter and the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.