The Economic Justice Coalition is an active and dynamic organization, working to improve the quality of life and working conditions for workers in a wide variety of ways.

Through our Unity Labor Partners program, we're providing jobs to unemployed workers and a valuable service to the community. Unity Labor Partners connects workers with consumers (focusing on lower-income consumers) to provide services like home repair, landscaping, maintenance, and personal care.

Our Out of Poverty program, conducted in partnership with the Georgia Client Council, works with low income families, helping them attain employment that offers a sustainable, family self-sufficiency wage. By offering circles of support and classes in making a budget, technological literacy, and other core skills, we help low-income workers climb the ladder of success.

Through our partnership with Free IT Athens, we're helping individuals and other non-profits gain access to the technology they need to succeed in the 21st Century.

One of our first projects, the UGA Living Wage Campaign is still ongoing, and has garnered support and results from University of Georgia faculty. We hope that the University's administration will go along with the wishes and values of the community and faculty of UGA.

We continue our work with immigrant workers on a regular basis, teaching ESL classes with volunteer teachers.

Our "Worker Friendly" program connects conscientous consumers with business that provide safe working environments and a living wage, so that comsumers know that their patronage is supporting responsible and forward-thinking businesses and helping workers.

The Workers' Rights Center supports workers in a variety of different areas.  Through a partnership with the Public Interest Project at the UGA School of Law, workers have access to law students and attorneys for advice on issues of wage theft and health and safety on the job.  The WRC can assist them in filing claims for job-related violations with the Athens Clarke-County magistrate's court.