A Project of the Public Health Advocacy Institute
OUR WORKER CENTER NETWORK
CENTRO DE DERECHOS LABORALES
Our mission is to provide a safe space for immigrants and low-income workers. The organization educates, supports, empowers and raises awareness among workers and the community to promote self-sufficiency and solidarity.
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​Nuestra misión es proporcionar un espacio seguro para inmigrantes y trabajadores de bajos ingresos. La organización educa, apoya, empodera y concientiza a los trabajadores y a la comunidad para promover la autosuficiencia y solidaridad. (Spanish)
DOMESTIC WORKERS WITHOUT BORDERS
We organize and empower domestic workers and caregivers in Houston. We are mobilizing the community to improve wages, working conditions and policies. We are leading a city-wide campaign for the domestic workers’ Bill of Rights.
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​Organizamos y capacitamos a las trabajadoras domésticas y cuidadores en Houston. Estamos movilizando a la comunidad para mejorar los salarios, las condiciones de trabajo y las polÃticas. Estamos liderando una campaña en toda la ciudad para la Declaración de Derechos de las trabajadoras domésticas. (Spanish)
Our mission is to organize, advocate and empower low wage workers in greater Minnesota. We are active in local campaigns for economic justice, social justice and immigrant rights.
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​Hadafkayagu waa abaabulka, u doodista iyo xoojinta shaqaalaha mushaharka hooseeya ee Minnesota dhexdeeda. Waxaan ku firfircoonnahay ololayaasha maxalliga ah ee caddaaladda dhaqaalaha, caddaaladda bulshada iyo xuquuqda soogalootiga. (Somali)
IMMIGRANT WOMEN WORKERS COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
We strive to eradicate exclusion, discrimination and violence against women. We empower immigrant women to reach fair wages and job safety. We promote collaboration to improve the quality of life of women, their children and the community.
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Nos esforzamos por erradicar la exclusión, la discriminación y la violencia contra las mujeres. Empoderamos a las mujeres inmigrantes para que alcancen salarios justos y seguridad laboral. Promovemos la colaboración para mejorar la calidad de vida de las mujeres, sus hijos y la comunidad. (Spanish)
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Our goal is to empower and sustain local communities here and abroad. Our vision is to help restore dignity and social integration of disadvantaged people through basic education, information, social services, communication and outreach.
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​Objektif nou se pèmèt ak soutni kominote lokal yo isit la ak aletranje. Vizyon nou an se pou ede retabli diyite ak entegrasyon sosyal moun ki defavorize atravè edikasyon de baz yo, enfòmasyon, sèvis sosyal, kominikasyon, devlopman kominotè ak kontak. (Haitian Creole)
Our organization builds power among workers of color through organizing, education and direct action to promote worker justice. We have a simple vision: Achieving worker justice for all.
Peb lub koomhaum tsim lub zog ntawm cov neeg ua haujlwm ntawm cov xim los ntawm kev teeb tsa, kev kawm thiab kev coj ncaj qha los txhawb kev ncaj ncees rau cov neeg ua haujlwm. (Hmong)
COLLABORATORS & ADVISORS
Martha Ojeda has worked in the U.S. for 25 years to help workers and use their power to demand just wages and safe conditions. In 1996, she was brutally forced from Mexico into political exile for exercising her labor rights. She co-authored with Rosemary Hennessy NAFTA From Below.
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Celeste Monforton is an expert in occupational health and safety policy. She worked at the U.S. Department of Labor (1991-2001), has a doctorate of public health, and is co-author of a book about worker centers from The New Press (May 2021).
AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL
Bacilio Castro of the Western North Carolina Workers' Center shows his support for poultry workers at a demonstration in October 2019 at the Jennie-O poultry plant in Melrose, MN. The action was organized by the Greater Minnesota Worker Center in St. Cloud.