AFL-CIO Partners with National Day Laborer Organizing Network

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/08/09/afl-cio-partners-with-national-day-laborer-organizing-network/

Organizing & Bargaining

Aug 9

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AFL-CIO Partners with National Day Laborer Organizing Network


The AFL-CIO and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) have reached a historic partnership agreement that will pave the way for AFL-CIO central labor councils and state federations and NDLON’s day laborer worker centers to work together on issues ranging from workplace rights to immigration reform to health and safety and other job-related concerns.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney announced the agreement at today’s meeting of the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Chicago. Says Sweeney:

The work being done by worker centers and NDLON in particular is some of the most important work in the labor movement today, and it’s time to bring our organizations closer together. Through this watershed partnership, we will strengthen our ability to promote and enforce the workplace rights for all workers—union and non-union, immigrant and non-immigrant alike.

snip: The 140 worker centers in 80 cities and towns serve as a place for day laborers and low-wage workers, many of them immigrants and people of color, to come together and learn about their rights. The centers also operate as advocates for the workers, approximately 200,000 in the United States. Earlier today, the Executive Council passed a policy statement to allow the creation of the partnership with NDLON and with individual worker centers.

[Virginia Dare]

1. k&r...

this will probably receive little attention here, but this is really big news.

[Tanuki]

2. Thank you

for posting this extremely important labor development!