Stop the Criminalization of Immigrants
30 Days for Human Rights
Down with SB1070 and Hate Legislation
June 28- July 29, 2010
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Enlace Supervisor Training
August 17- 18 in Portland, Oregon. For more information contact us.
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Seafood Worker Fight published in “The Progressive”
The article by Virginia Sole-Smith which was published in The Progressive‘s May 2010 issue titled Mexico’s Squid Sweatshop.
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The Enlace Institute’s purpose is to advance the field of strategic organizational development. The Institute assists organizations of low-wage workers to develop disciplined, mutually accountable teams who continually improve the work of the organizations for their constituencies.
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LAUSD Approves Resolution to Use Only CLEAN Carwashes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 22, 2010 Contact: Chloe Osmer, 323-203-5197
LAUSD Approves Resolution to Use Only CLEAN Carwashes
Board votes School Tax Dollars To Be Used Only at Law-Abiding Carwashes
LOS ANGELES - Today the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education approved a resolution to establish that the District will do business only with carwashes that have pledged to abide by basic laws and respect workers and the environment. Dozens of carwash workers, including those with children in the LAUSD, teachers, students and their community allies were on hand to support the LAUSD resolution, which was the first of its kind in the nation.
STRACC announces strike
Enlace member STRACC has declared strike. The message is only available below in spanish
Estamos en Huelga
1. El 23 de marzo del 2010 el Sindicato de Trabajadores de Casas Comerciales, Oficinas y Expendios, Similares y Conexos del Distrito Federal (STRACC) estallamos la huelga en la empresa “Auto Servicio Belem S.A. de C.V”, con domicilio en calzada de Tlalpan no. 424, esquina Coruña colonia Viaducto Piedad, Delegación Iztacalco, México, D.F.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR SPEAKING TOUR TOWARDS WORKING CLASS & CONTINENTAL UNITY!
With a growing economic crisis, the U.S. empire is waging an even larger scale war on the world’s poor to keep capitalism afloat, while eliminating many essential services making it more expensive and practically unaffordable to obtain healthcare, education, housing, and even making it a crime to work if you’re an undocumented worker in the U.S.
For this reason, Unión del Barrio and the International Action Center have joined efforts with the Detroit-based U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange and the World Federation of Trade Unions to host a national tour of Latin American labor leaders representing nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), to Southern California.
Flyer of events for Worker Tour
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2010 Article IV Consultation with Mexico
On March 10, 2010, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Mexico.
Background
Mexico had significantly strengthened policy credibility and public and private sector balance sheets before the onset of the crisis. Strong economic performance, with growth averaging over 3.5 percent in 2003-07, was underpinned by robust macro policy frameworks along with the flexible exchange rate regime. Considerable progress was made in improving debt profiles, and the strong regulatory framework gave rise to a sound banking sector.
Korean CORT Guitar Workers
Cort/Cor-Tek makes guitars for brands like Fender and Gibson. Cort abruptly fired all of the workers in 2006 and 2007, claiming financial hardship, and moved its two Korean factories to China and Indonesia, where, as the American co-founders put it, there would be a much lower chance of workers seeking better wages. Since then they have been fighting for justice and creating an international solidarity network to:
* Pressure Cort to rehire all of their fired Korean guitar workers and re-open the factory
* Meet with Cort’s business partners, who include American industry giants such as Fender, Gibson, G&L, ESP to urge them to stop doing business with CORT
* Let music lovers, press, and the general public know the truth about Cort guitars, sign the petition and support the rehiring of all Korean guitar workers
* Build solidarity with local workers, social justice organizations, and cultural activists and musicians
Fighting for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
The New Domestic Order
By Lizzy Ratner
This article appeared in the September 28, 2009 edition of The Nation.
Deloris Wright has been a nanny for twenty-one years. In the strange class warp of Manhattan’s Upper East and West Sides, this places her squarely among the ranks of the invisible, a ministering ghost who is rarely seen and never heard. And yet, there she was on a startling spring Saturday, a 54-year-old Jamaican domestic worker standing at the edge of Central Park, demanding her rights.
“We take care of your children. We take them to school, to French classes, we clean your homes, do your laundry, and we care for your aging parents, right here in this neighborhood,” she shouted into a microphone. “Now, with the economic crisis, we are thrown out into the street with no notice and no severance pay, no unemployment, no safety net, no nothing…. Some of our employers treat their pets with more humanity than they would treat us.”
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke
By Jennifer Carcamo, Enlace intern & UCLA student
Labor organizers, community members, and students continue their full-fledged “Campaign to Stop Killer Coke” in an effort to put an end to the mass murders, kidnappings, and tortures of union leaders in Colombia’s Coke factories. Killer Coke continues to fight against human right violations through creative promotions and protests that served to get their voices heard at the annual Coca-Cola shareholders meeting.