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Founded in 1974, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans. By combining litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing, AALDEF works with Asian American communities across the country to secure human rights for all.
Since 2003, American Rights at Work has informed the American public about the struggle to win workplace democracy for nurses, cooks, computer programmers, retail cashiers, and a variety of workers who we all depend on every day. Our vision is a nation where the freedom of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is guaranteed and promoted.
CWA Local 1180
New York Administrative Employees
"Making Government Work For You!"
Since its inception, the Center has focused on fostering connections between intellectuals and activists, and translating theoretical and conceptual work into practice.
The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.
The ILR School started in 1946 with a focus on labor relations, and now focuses on a broad array of workplace issues.
Domestic Workers United is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African domestic workers that works in close collaboration with other domestic worker organizations in NY through the Domestic Workers Justice Coalition toward respect, fair labor standards, power and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression.
Enlace is a membership organization comprised of worker centers, unions and organizing groups in North America engaged in base-building through campaigns for economic and social justice.
Free Speech TV is a publicly-supported, independent, non-profit TV channel that exposes the public to perspectives excluded from the corporate-owned media.
GO! Creative, LLC
10401 Connecticut Ave., Suite 104
Kensington, MD 20895
Ph: 301-933-9527
Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.
The Teamsters are known as the union of freight drivers and warehouse workers, but have organized workers in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector.
The ILCA is the professional organization of labor communicators in North America.
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, and we believe that by engaging a broad community of allies, we can win bigger victories.
Founded in 1890, Judson Memorial Church is a church in Greenwich Village devoted to social justice.
LABOR ARTS is a virtual museum; we gather, identify and display images of the cultural artifacts of working people and their organizations. Our mission is to present powerful images that help us understand the past and present lives of working people.
The purpose of LaborTech is to bring together labor video, computer and media activists in the US and from around the world to build and develop labor communication technology and media. The first conference was held in 1990 and they have been held throughout the United States as well as Canada and Russia.
Make the Road by Walking promotes equal rights and economic and political opportunity for low-income New Yorkers. In 2005 it launched ¡Despierta Bushwick!, a collaborative effort of Make the Road by Walking’s workers’ committee, Workers in Action, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) to confront workplace conditions in Bushwick.
The Metro New York Labor Communications Council is made up of media workers from private and public sector trade unions and related organizations.
The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights is a worker advocacy organization that sees as its mission, providing organizing support, legal representation and training for low-wage, non-union workers in the state of Mississippi.
The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community & Policy Studies is built on a partnership between the City University and organized labor. The purpose of this collaboration is to further expand educational opportunities for union members within the University system, as well as to provide support for public forums, research projects, publications, and other initiatives that benefit workers and their communities.
The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) is the official Latino constituency group of the AFL-CIO. LCLAA represents the views of not only Latino trade unionists but all Latino workers seeking justice at the workplace.
Internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. Contains archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections describe the history of the labor movement and how it related to the broader struggle for economic, social, and political change.
NELP’s Immigrant and Nonstandard Worker Project seeks to protect and promote employment rights of low wage workers. The Project works directly in support of worker centers, labor and community-based organizations, lawyers, advocates and service providers around the country.
The National Writers Union is the trade union for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book authors, business and technical writers, web content providers, and poets. With the combined strength of 3,500 members in 17 local chapters nationwide, and with the support of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the Union works to defend the rights and improve the economic and working conditions of all writers.
Founded in 1976 by trade unionists, academics, students, archivists, educators, labor editors, attorneys, and retirees, mostly from New York State, NYLHA encourages the study of workers and their organizations.
The Professional Staff Congress is the union that represents more than 20,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY).
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, UFCW, CLC, represents workers throughout much of the United States and Canada. RWDSU members work in a wide variety of occupations that range from food processing to retail to manufacturing to service and health care.
Radio Bilingüe, a non-profit radio network with Latino control and leadership, is the only national distributor of Spanish-language programming in public radio.
SEIU Local 32BJ is the largest building service workers union in the country, representing more than 85,000 cleaners, doormen, porters, maintenance workers, window cleaners, security guards, superintendents, and theater and stadium workers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC.
Social Service Employees Union Local 371 is part of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFL-CIO) and represents
workers employed by New York City in a large number of titles, mainly in the social service professions.
The DataCenter provides social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns.
Local 802 is the largest local union of professional musicians in the world. Our mission, simply put, is to fight for the interests and well being of the musicians employed in New York's music and entertainment industries. We do that through organizing and collective bargaining as well as through legislative and political action.
The Newspapers Guild Workers-CWA
"Our members share the view that the best working conditions are achieved by people who have a say in their workplace."
UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) merged on July 8, 2004 forming UNITE HERE. The union represents more than 450,000 active members and more than 400,000 retirees throughout North America.
UNITE HERE boasts a diverse membership, comprised largely of immigrants and including high percentages of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American workers. The majority of UNITE HERE members are women.
WIN producers gather news from labor unions and activists from across the country. WIN then packages the material for distribution to radio stations and for print publication.
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