UNITED STATES
AFL-CIO-American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations
815 16th Street, NW
United States
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The
AFL-CIO is the voluntary federation of America's unions, representing more than nine
million
working women and men in the United States. The AFL-CIO was formed in
1955 by the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations.
Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers
P.O.
Box 2087
Long Island City, NY 11102
United States
Tel: +1/718/426-2447
Email: andolan_organizing@yahoo.com
Website: www.andolan.net
The
non-profit, membership-based group Andolan was founded in 1998 and organizes and
advocates on behalf of low-wage, immigrant South Asian workers. Andolan,
which means "movement" in several South Asian languages, seeks to
educate workers about their rights, persuade employers to pay a living wage and
raise public awareness about abusive industry conditions. All Andolan members
are low-wage workers and primarily women; many are undocumented. Andolan’s
goal is to support and empower working-class communities that face obstacles,
including language barriers, discrimination, and immigration status. Most of the
members are employed as babysitters, housekeepers, and restaurant workers. Andolan
prioritizes the central leadership of its members and strives to break a system
of dependency so as to foster worker empowerment.
CDM - Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. Migrant Rights’ Center
U.S.
contact information:
Post Office Box 368
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
United States
Mexico
office:
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.
Calle Victor Roslaes, 164
Colonia Centro, C.P. 98000
Zacatecas, Zacatecas
Mexico
Tel: +52/492/925-2510
Fax: +52/492/925-2511
Email: rachel@cdmigrante.org
Website: www.cdmigrante.org (operational
in Fall 2005)
The
non-profit organization Centro
de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM) aims to bridge the transnational gap
between Mexico-based migrant workers and advocates in the United States. The
staff from both the U.S. and Mexico will conduct outreach efforts in Mexico by
informing workers in major sending communities in Mexico about their workplace
rights in the United States. CDM will also connect workers who have experienced
problems with their employment in the United States with lawyers, unions or
worker groups in the United States that can help them. It will provide on the
ground support for advocates in the U.S. who represent Mexico-based migrants
but face financial difficulties due to the costs of conducting site visits to
the workers in Mexico. In addition, the CDM will facilitate international
cooperation around legal and policy issues.
CHIRLA - Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
2533 W. 3rd. St., Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90057
United States
Tel: +1/213/353-1333
Fax: +1/213/353-1344
Email: asalas@chirla.org
Website: www.chirla.org
CHIRLA was founded in 1986 and works to advance
the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees and to foster an
environment of positive human and community relations in society.
One of CHIRLA’s program areas is the Workers’ Rights project. Through this
project, CHIRLA seeks to educate domestic workers, day laborers and garment
workers about their rights and to organize them as a way of fighting against the
problems in their industries and against the abuses they face as immigrant
workers.
CIW - Coalition for Immokalee Workers
P.O. Box 603
Immokalee, FL 34143
United States
Tel. and Fax: +1/239/657-8311
Email: workers@ciw-online.org
Website: http://www.ciw-online.org
The
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is
a community-based worker organization that was founded in 1993. Its members are
largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs
throughout the State of Florida. The CIW strives to build its strength as a
community on a basis of reflection and analysis, coalition building across
ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development. The CIW
fights for fair wages, more respect from bosses and the industries where workers
are employed, better and cheaper housing, stronger laws and stronger enforcement
against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize without
fear of retaliation, and an end to indentured servitude in the fields.
DWU - Domestic Workers United
c/o
CAAAV 2473 Valentine Avenue
Bronx, NY 10458
United States
Tel: +1/718/220-7391 x 11
Fax: +1/718/220-7398
Email: apoo@caaav.org
Website: www.domesticworkersunited.org
Domestic
Workers United (DWU) is a group of domestic workers and domestic workers’
organizations organizing to build power, raise the level of respect for domestic
workers, establish fair labor standards in the domestic work industry, and win
legalization for all undocumented workers. To this end, DWU builds leadership
among the over 200,000 women working as nannies, companions, and housekeepers in
the greater New York metropolitan area, exposes employer and agency abuse, and
targets government bodies to implement enforceable policies that will promote
dignity and respect for domestic workers.
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
In
Fall 2003, nearly 1,000 documented and undocumented workers and their supporters
traveled across the United States to spotlight the need for immigration reform.
Workers of dozens of nationalities boarded buses in ten different locations and
traveled on different routes, covering a total of 103 cities along the way. The
event was sponsored by the American Federation of Labor – Congress of
Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and led by the Hotel Employees &
Restaurant Employees (HERE). The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride was modeled
after the 1961 Freedom Rides of the U.S. civil rights movement, in which student
activists from across the U.S. rode buses to challenge racial segregation in the
South.
Justice for Janitors
http://www.seiu.org/building/janitors/about_justice_for_janitors/index.cfm
The
Justice for Janitors campaign was formed in Denver, Colorado in 1985. The
campaign is about hard-working janitors uniting for fair working conditions with
support from communities. Over the years, Justice for Janitors has worked
to provide better wages, basic benefits, and job security for janitors who clean
buildings in major cities and suburbs in the United States.
Migrant Farmworker Justice Project
508
Lucerne Ave.
Lake Worth, FL 33460
United States
Tel: +1/561/582-3921
Fax: +1/561/582-4884
Email: greg@floridalegal.org
Website: www.floridalegal.org
The
Migrant Farmworker Justice Project is committed to ensuring that the full range
of legal advocacy is available to the 300,000 farmworkers who work in
Florida’s fields and groves, through innovation, law reform, legislative and
administrative advocacy, and class actions. The Migrant Farmworker Justice
Project is funded by the Florida Bar Foundation and was established in 1996 by
the Florida Legal Services, a non-profit organization that provides civil legal
assistance to indigent persons who would not otherwise have the means to obtain
a lawyer.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
United States
Tel: +1/213/738-9050
Fax: +1/213/738-9919
Email: liz_miwon@yahoo.com
MIWON
was founded in 2000 by several organizations to unite workers from different
ethnic groups in several industries and to empower workers. MIWON is made up of
the following organizations: The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los
Angeles (CHIRLA), Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA), Pilipino Workers
Center (PWC), Garment Worker Center (GWC) and the Instituto de Educación
Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA).
2533
W. 3rd St., Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90057
United States
Tel: +1/213/353-1336
Fax: +1/213/353-1344
Email: apabloalvarado@aol.com
Website: www.ndlon.org
The mission of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) is to strengthen and expand the work of local day laborer organizing groups, in order to become more effective and strategic in building leadership, advancing low-wage worker and immigrant rights, and developing successful models for organizing immigrant workers. NDLON fosters healthy, safer and more humane environments for day laborers to obtain employment and raise their families. In this sense, NDLON advances the human, labor, and civil rights of day workers throughout the United States. NDLON is composed of 39 member organizations.
55
John Street, 7th floor
New York, NY 10038
United States
Tel: +1/212/285-3025 ext. 102
Fax: +1/212/285-3044
Immigrant Worker Project Coordinator: rsmith@nelp.org
Litigation Director: cruckelshaus@nelp.org
Campaigner on the rights of immigrant workers: asugimori@nelp.org
Website: www.nelp.org
For
more than thirty years, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) has provided
legal services to campaigners, workers’ centers, unions, and organizations
that work with low-income workers. Its focus has always been on upholding
workers’ rights, such as making sure workers receive the minimum wage, that
they are safe and healthy on the job, that they have access to workers’
compensation, etc. Although NELP had been working on these issues for many
years, it wasn’t until around 1999 that it officially designated an immigrant
worker program within the organization to focus on ending the abusive and
discriminatory treatment of low-wage immigrant workers.
1101
14th St., NW, Suite 410
Washington DC 20005
United States
Tel: +1/202/216-0261
Email: bernstein@nilc-dc.org
hincapie@nilc.org
Website: http://www.nilc.org/
Since
1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) has been dedicated to
protecting and promoting the rights of low-income immigrants and their family
members. In the past twenty years, NILC has earned a national reputation in the
United States as a leading expert on immigration, public benefits, and
employment laws affecting immigrants and refugees. Its extensive knowledge of
the complex interplay between immigrants' legal status and their rights under
U.S. laws is an essential resource for legal aid programs, community groups, and
social service agencies across the country.
310
8th Street, Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94607
United States
Tel: +1/510/465-1984 ext. 302
Fax: +1/510/465-1885
Email: ctactaquin@nnirr.org
Website: www.nnirr.org
The
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national
organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community,
religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a
forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general
public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and
refugee issues.
California
Organization of Farmworker Women
Pomona, CA 91766
United States
Tel: +1/909/865-7776
Fax: +1/909/865-8779
Email: liderescampesinas@hotmail.com
Started
in 1992, the Organización en California de Líderes Campesinas organizes female
farmworkers throughout the State of California in local groups, to exchange
information and to be a support network for each other.
99
Hudson St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
United States
Tel: +1/212/343-1771
Fax: +1/212/343-7217
Email: sekousiby@msn.com siby@rocny.org
Website: http://www.rocny.org
The
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) is dedicated to winning
improved conditions for restaurant workers and raising public recognition of
restaurant workers’ contributions to the city of New York. The organization
was formed immediately after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September
11th, 2001, which claimed the lives of many of the workers of the Windows on the
World restaurant in the World Trade Center. ROC-NY’s immediate efforts were to
help the Windows on the World restaurant co-workers and their families who were
impacted by the attacks. Early in 2002, ROC-NY shifted its focus to organizing
restaurant workers throughout New York City.
3055
Wilshire Blvd. #1050
Los
Angeles, CA 90010
United
States
Tel: +1/213/368-7410
Fax: +1/213/381-7348
Email: monterrb@seiu.org
Website: http://www.seiu.org/
The
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has a membership of 1.8 million
working people and 120,000 retirees in the United States, Canada, and Puerto
Rico. SEIU members represent health care, public employees, building services
and industry and allied.
1250
S. Los Angeles St., #214
Los Angeles, CA 90015
United
States
Tel: +1/213/748-5945
Fax: +1/213/748-5876
Email: sweatinfo@igc.org
Website: www.sweatshopwatch.org
Founded
in 1995, Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of over thirty labor, community, civil
rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and many
individuals, committed to eliminating the exploitation that occurs in
sweatshops. Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally,
with a focus on garment workers in California. Sweatshop Watch believes that
workers should earn a living wage in a safe, decent work environment, and that
those responsible for the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held
accountable. The workers who labor in sweatshops are its driving force. The
organization’s decisions, projects, and organizing efforts are informed by the
voices, needs, and life experiences of sweatshop workers.
91
North Franklin St., Suite 207
Hempstead,
NY 11550
United
States
Tel: +1/516/565-5377
Fax: +1/516/565-5470
Email: workplace@igc.org
The
Workplace Project is a non-profit organization that fights for the rights of
immigrant workers who receive low wages, discrimination and abuse on the job. It
provides orientation and information to these workers and promotes the
leadership of the growing Latino population, especially on Long Island, New
York, where the Latino population now numbers more than 300,000. The Workplace
Project was created in 1992 as a response to the exploitation of these immigrant
workers, with the goal of providing information and fostering organizing.
675
S. Park View St., 1st floor
Los Angeles, CA 90057
United
States
Tel: +1/213/480-4156
Fax: +1/213/480-4160
Email: vnarro@ile.ucla.edu
Website: http://www.labor.ucla.edu/
The
UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education plays a unique role as a bridge
between the University and the labor community in southern California. As part
of the university, the Labor Center serves as an important source of information
about unions and workers to interested scholars and students. Through its
extensive connections with unions and workers, the Labor Center also provides
Labor with important and clearly defined access to UCLA's resources and
programs. An advisory committee comprised of about forty southern California
labor and community leaders (representing more than one million members in the
public and private sector) provides advice and support for the Center.
1525
NW 167th Street Suite 300
Miami, FL 33169
United
States
Tel: +1/305/623-3000 ext. 128
Fax: +1/305/623-3071
Email: laura@unitefordignity.org
Website: http://www.unitefordignity.org
Unite
for Dignity is an immigrant workers’ rights organization dedicated to building
new leaders to fight for improved conditions in workplaces and immigrant
communities in South Florida, creating positive change in issues confronting
immigrant workers, their families and communities, such as healthcare and
immigrant rights. Unite for Dignity was originally formed in 1997 as a project
to organize nursing home workers in South Florida. In 2001, Unite for Dignity
converted into a non-profit organization to better represent immigrant workers
and build stronger community ties. Unite for Dignity and its members continue
working to address the needs of immigrant workers in South Florida, and to
overcome exploitation and discrimination in the workplace and in the community
based on language, cultural barriers, and economic status.