Enlace
Enlace is a strategic alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations in Mexico and in the U.S. We partner with our member organizations in international campaigns to motivate abusive multi-sector transnational corporations to treat workers and communities with dignity and respect. Enlace uses an integrated approach to organizing, creating unique campaign strategies while developing systems strengthening organizations internally. Our strategies often cross industrial and sector lines for reasons relating to both workforce development and campaign strategy.
In addition, the Enlace Institute presents trainings in strategic organization development that were developed over the many years of learning through our campaigns. Our collaborative brainstorming processes are useful for virtually all work groups in base-building organizations.
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Lobby Day for a Sweatfree Los Angeles!
Please join us for a lobby day to educate our city council members on the importance of L.A.‘s participation in the growing Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium.
What: Deliver signed postcards to city council members and show that the L.A. community is tired of supporting sweatshops with our tax dollars!
Date: Wednesday, March 10th
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Meet: 2pm in front of the cafe on the 2nd floor of City Hall
RSVP: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by Monday March 8th (we may be able to arrange free parking for you in the city hall parking garage if you RSVP by the morning of March 8 - we’ll need your name, make, color, and license plate of your car)
Background:
Back in 2004, as you may recall, activists and visionary elected officials succeeded in passing one of the strongest sweatfree procurement policies in the nation. The legislation was eventually expanded to include $100,000 annually for monitoring and enforcement of conditions in factories producing for city contracts.
Six years later, it’s time to take the next big step. Despite our best efforts, the city has not been able to wean itself off of sweatshops. Whenever we identify violations in foreign factories, the city’s Department of General Services—along with its independent monitor, the Worker Rights Consortium—cajoles, threatens and educates, but still has very limited success in changing factory conditions.
A big part of the problem is leverage, and that’s where the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium comes in. The consortium will help combine the enforcement efforts of cities, states, and school districts across the nation, so they can speak with a single, exponentially more powerful voice when they demand decent wages and conditions for factory workers here and abroad.
IMPORTANT: Even if you can’t make the lobby day, please send an email to Council President Eric Garcetti (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) asking him to do what’s necessary for the city to join the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium. Remember to leave your address when you write to him.
Thanks for your help in sending a message to the city that we want Sweatfree uniforms for city employees. First uniforms, next…the world!
Best,
The members of Sweatfree Los Angeles:
APALC, CAST-LA, ENLACE, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Jewish Labor Committee