Jewish Labor Committee

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JLC

Jewish Labor Committee
Founded	1934; 91 years ago (1934)
Headquarters	140 West 31st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001
Location	United States (current), Canada (1936–1970s)
Affiliations	AFL–CIO (allied group) Change to Win (working relationship) Canadian Labour Congress (until the 1970s)
Website	www.jewishlabor.org

The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) is an American secular Jewish labor organization founded in 1934 to oppose the rise of Nazism in Germany. Among its central purposes is promoting labor union interests in the organized Jewish communities, especially in the USA, and Jewish interests within U.S. labor unions.^[1] The organization is headquartered in New York City, where it was founded, with local/regional offices in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, and volunteer-led affiliated groups in other U.S. communities. Today, it works to maintain and strengthen the historically strong relationship between the American Jewish community and the trade union movement, and to promote what they see as the shared social justice agenda of both communities. The JLC was also active in Canada from 1936 until the 1970s where it was led by Kalmen Kaplansky.