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Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ) builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and respect through community organizing, the provision of high quality legal and support services, transformative education and policy innovation. MRNJ is a project of Make the Road States. Founded in 2014, MRNJ operates centers and organizing hubs in Elizabeth, Passaic, Perth Amboy and Newark, NJ that reach thousands of immigrant and working class people of color each year. Our member-led organizing committees -- which work on the issues named above-- implement strategies to combat shared problems, and develop leadership and the capacity for civic participation. In the past four years, MRNJ has won more than 10 pro-immigrant and pro-worker policies, including the nation’s first guaranteed severance law, landmark anti-wage theft legislation, occupational and drivers’ license for undocumented immigrants and a $15 minimum wage. We also provide an array of high-quality...

About Make the Road New Jersey  Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of Latinx and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through community organizing, legal services policy innovation and transformative education. Founded in late 2014, MRNJ is headquartered in Elizabeth, NJ and we also organize and provide services in Passaic, Perth Amboy and Newark, NJ. Our members have won multiple groundbreaking campaigns for pro-immigrant and pro-worker policies and engage in organizing to impact change on the local, state, and federal level. For example, in 2019, we won a $15 minimum wage, the strongest anti-wage theft law in the country and the nation’s first guaranteed paid severance law. During the pandemic we helped to win a landmark worker safety executive order to protect the health and wellbeing of all New Jersey workers and the first ever Excluded New Jerseyan Fund to provide direct cash relief to workers left behind from federal aid. Our legal services and...

Current Opening:  Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ) is seeking a full-time staff person to direct the worker and economic justice organizing initiatives of the grassroots, immigrant, and workers’ rights organization. The position is based in northern and/or central New Jersey and requires the ability to work, read and write in Spanish & English. It is ideal for an experienced community and/or labor organizer interested in building worker organizing to win enforceable workplace rights, help build campaigns to holder employers accountable and pass pro-worker legislation and help transform the power dynamics of our economy. About Make the Road New Jersey  Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of Latinx and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through community organizing, legal services policy innovation and transformative education. Founded in late 2014, MRNJ is headquartered in Elizabeth, NJ and we also organize and provide services in Passaic, Perth...

Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and respect through community organizing, the provision of high quality legal and support services, transformative education and policy innovation. MRNJ is a project of Make the Road States. Founded in 2014, MRNJ has more than 2,000 members and operates community centers in Elizabeth, Passaic, and Perth Amboy and also provides services in Newark, NJ. Our member-led organizing committees -- which work on the issues named above -- implement strategies to combat shared problems, and develop leadership and the capacity for civic participation. We also provide an array of high-quality bilingual services including ESOL, legal services, workplace safety training and college access. Make the Road New Jersey’s youth committee, Youth Power Project, reaches working class youth to support them in becoming effective thinkers, leaders and decision-makers. Our programs provide academic and...