Trabajo

El Centro has been working on the following goals:

1 To support workers in recuperating wages owed to them by improving our process. This includes making improvements in the intake form, clarifying alternatives to the legal route and identifying other options that are also possible. The main goal is to identify a labor violation and help the worker who is receiving a consult to explore next steps with the help of a consejera/asesora (a worker member who has been trained in identifying labor violations, especially wage debts total amounts). 

2 Train 200 hundred workers to Know Your labor Rights and training 15 worker leaders to become worker counselors for other workers. 

3 Better document labor violation cases and gather data to know how much is owed annually and share some of the data we have on the current conditions in this industry in Orange County, support organizing efforts to bring light to current issues through media and community events. This can also include sharing examples of effective organizing strategies, solidarity and a culture of implementing workers rights

Justicia Economica y Nuestras Manos:

El Centro is building and strengthening our base of domestic workers, mostly female identified, through the Nuestras Manos. The organization has a solid base of 30 women who are supporting workers as they return to work or demand better working conditions. Our local calls have reached up to 200 domestic workers.

This group of women is also currently working with Radio Santa Ana to document their stories, as a primary group of informal labor impacted by the pandemic. Workers are facilitating their own trainings now, not only participating.

In addition to our local organizing, this group is also engaged in advocating for local and state policy changes, such as SB1257, which would B 1257 would eliminate the exclusion of “household domestic service” from California's occupational health and safety protections. Relief efforts have also provided hundreds of families who are depending on domestic work as a primary income who we are now following up with. 

Nuestras Metas/ Our Goals

1. Increase membership and grow capacity in our worker organization:  El Centro, through its classes and services and in collaboration with local organizations that have decades of relationship-building with day laborers in Orange County, is increasing membership in Nuestras Manos, our domestic workers organization ad well as outreaching to day labor sites. These projects involve training and workshops that grow the capacity of members and leaders to carry out further outreach, education, and action around wage theft. 

1. Connect our Centro community to relevant worker justice campaigns and education: El Centro is reaching out to workers, students, families and other community members already in our Centro community with accessible, relevant, bilingual educational and outreach materials about worker rights and campaigns such as the Health and Safety Act SB1257, and activating their participation in support of worker rights initiatives. This includes a radio programming created for and by immigrant women who are also domestic workers. 

2. Enforce wage laws and promote dignified employment practices: In collaboration with local organizations and CADWC networks, el Centro is supporting workers who face a violation of their rights as workers, through education and organizing. 

1. Crecer nuestra membresía y aumentar la capacidad en nuestra organización de trabajadores: El Centro, a través de sus clases y servicios y en colaboración con organizaciones locales que tienen décadas de construir relaciones con jornalerxs en el Condado de Orange, está aumentando la membresía en Nuestras Manos, nuestra organización de trabajadoras y así como llegar a los sitios de jornalerxs. Estos proyectos involucran capacitación y talleres que aumentan la capacidad de lxs miembrxs y líderes para llevar a cabo más actividades de divulgación, educación y acción en torno al robo de salarios.

2. Conectar nuestra comunidad Centro con campañas de justicia y educación para trabajadores relevantes: El Centro se está acercando a trabajadores, estudiantes, familias y otrxs miembrxs de la comunidad que ya están en nuestra comunidad Centro con materiales educativos y de divulgación accesibles, relevantes y bilingües sobre los derechos de los trabajadores y campañas como la Ley de Salud y Seguridad SB1257, y activando su participación en apoyo a iniciativas de derechos laborales. Esto incluye una programación de radio creada para y por mujeres inmigrantes que también son trabajadoras domésticas.

3. Hacer cumplir las leyes salariales y promover prácticas de empleo digno: en colaboración con organizaciones locales y redes como CADWC, el Centro está apoyando a lxs trabajadores que enfrentan una violación de sus derechos como trabajadores, a través de la educación y la organización.