New York's Latino Wokers Center

Useful Quotes:

"But even assuming that workers organizing with the Center in a specific shop could win a contract, that hardly ends the debate over strategy and organizing models. Does anyone really believe that an organizing strategy based on collective bargaining and contract administration, which must assume a stable, capital-labor relationship, can effectively remedy the problems facing immigrant workers in the fiercely competitive, capital-poor, totally unregulated world of New York City's underground economy? Surely, something more is needed. And what about the myriad social problems immigrant workers face-lack of jobs, social service cuts, INS raids, xenophobic campaigns against immigrants? Workers' issues don't end at the workplace door."

"How can we build a movement that can fight for and win what we all need-secure jobs, just wages, quality healthcare, safe neighborhoods, freedom from discrimination and xenophobia? It's a long way from New York City's underground economy to an answer to these questions. We'll just have to keep organizing until we get there."

"Workers' centers based in immigrant communities include New York's Chinese Staff and Workers Association, the Workplace Project, SAKHI for South Asian Women, and the Independent Farmworkers Center, California's Korean Immigrant Women's Advocates, Asian Immigrant Women's Advocates, Texas' La Mujer Obrera, Florida's Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Massachusetts' Immigrant Worker Resource Center"

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