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Enlace, in partnership with community groups and unions across the US, is calling on all public and private institutions to divest their holdings in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, America’s largest private prison corporations which have profited from billions in taxpayer money. Watch the Campaign Video.
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Peer Trainer Program Grows
The Enlace Institute’s Peer Trainer Program, is showing a 41% increase in enrolled participants in its second two-year training series.
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Victory! United Methodist Church Divests from Private Prisons
The United Methodist Church has divested from Corrections Corporation of America and the Geo Group!
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Locals 1877, 24/7, and SOULA 2006 United as New Local: SEIU United Service Workers West
On Thursday, October 7, 2010 Members of Locals 1877, 24/7, and SOULA 2006 Voted Overwhelmingly to Unite as New Local: SEIU United Service Workers West.
Board members of SEIU Locals 1877, 24/7, and SOULA 2006 announced that the statewide membership of their locals had voted overwhelmingly (a 92% Yes vote) to unite as one local: SEIU United Service Workers West (USWW). The new SEIU local will include over 40,000 janitors, security officers, airport workers, racetrack, allied and entertainment, residential workers, and university workers, and other service workers.
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US Social Forum
Mary Mendez, along with representatives of most of Enlace’s U.S. based member organizations, participated in the Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan, an industrial city located near the US- Canada border, a city filled with old buildings erected during capitalism’s grand era of the automobile industry, which today is decaying. In this city one finds disintegrated and empty neighborhoods due to the labor crisis.
Detroit, which had a population of 2 million in the mid 1950’s, now has a population of around 800,000. Poverty, unemployment, and depopulation have given rise to an almost post-apocalyptic panorama.
Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes in New York
On July 1, 2010 the New York State Legislature passed the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (A1470B/S2311E). After 6 years of organizing by domestic workers together with unions, employers, clergy and community organizations, the New York State Legislature came down on the side of justice. Finally, domestic workers are recognized as real workers under the law. New York becomes the first to recognize Domestic Workers!
Please visit the website of Domestic Workers United for more information and updates.
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.
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.