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The Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship (I.M.F.)

The Interdenominational Ministerial Fellowship (I.M.F.) is a group of religious leaders in the Nashville area that meet to discuss social, racial, and economic issues facing many people.

Each year, the IMF sponsors the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march down historic Jefferson Street.  SEIU members join in that tradition to remember the struggle for justice that we all continue to face.  IMF leaders have stood with SEIU Local 205 at city council meetings, school board meetings, and many other community events in support of our members and their goals.

Interfaith Worker Justice (I.W.J.)

Interfaith Worker Justice is a network of people of faith that calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the religious community on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and conditions for workers, and give voice to workers, especially low-wage workers.

Here in Nashville, members of the I.W.J. helped turn out people to rally with our members to support living wages in the Middle TN area. They also led a candlelight vigil to support workers rights in Nashville.

Find out more about them at http://www.iwj.org/.

Jobs With Justice (J.W.J.)

Jobs with Justice engages workers and allies in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live.  JWJ was founded in 1987 with the vision of lifting up workers’ rights struggles as part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice.  We believe in long-term multi-issue coalition building , grassroots base-building and organizing, and strategic militant action as the foundation for building a grassroots movement.  We believe that by engaging a broad community of allies, we can win bigger victories.  We reach working people through the organizations that represent them - unions, congregations, community organizations - and directly as JWJ activists.

In Middle Tennessee, nearly 600 people have signed the Jobs with Justice pledge to be there at least five times a year for someone else’s struggle as well as their own.

JWJ is a strong supporter of SEIU Local 205.  They led the community campaign that called for the National Labor Relations Board to stop defending employers and start helping workers.  JWJ has been active in every organizing drive of the Local including doing a yearly “labor in the pulpit” where Union members go into congregations and talk about current labor struggles here in Nashville.

For more information, visit http://www.jwj.org/.

The Nashville Peace and Justice Center (N.P.J.C.)

The Nashville Peace and Justice Center is a community-based coalition of organizations and individuals working to create a more peaceful and just society. We are a community meeting space, a clearinghouse for information, and aneducational center training the next generation of leaders in the movement for social justice.  The NPJC is focused on four key areas:

  • To build a community of peace and justice activists, advocates, educators and supporters to help people find local ways to address global concerns.
  • To raise public awareness and support for grassroots initiatives that empower those who are affected by injustice.
  • To engage community residents in social justice activism through hands-on education programming offering practical tools for grassroots organizing.
  • To become the collective voice for peace and justice in Middle Tennessee.


The NPJC has been a community ally of Local 205 for many years. They have stood by our members for budget battles at City Hall as well as helping phonebank community and political leaders to get a better understanding of what matters to working people in Tennessee.

For more information, visit http://www.nashvillepeacejustice.org/.

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (T.I.R.R.C.)

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition is a statewide, immigrant and refugee led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights and create an atmosphere in which they are viewed as positive contributors to the state.

SEIU Local 205 has worked with TIRRC to raise awareness of the many issues that face the Kurdish custodians in our MNPS chapters. They have helped with translation and understanding to their members about our Union in Nashville. TIRRC has supported our local by standing with us in rallies and actions that have supported our working families.

For more information, visit http://www.tnimmigrant.org/.