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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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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.