WE ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND WE DESERVE JUSTICE
An open letter from the Workers Center of CNY and Alianza Agricola to the New York Farm Bureau and to the employers it represents. Final Letter to Farm Bureau-Alianza Agricola …
The Workers’ Center of Central New York is a grassroots organization focused on workplace and economic justice.
It is part of a nation-wide network of innovative workers’ centers affiliated with the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ). It operates in and around the city of Syracuse, a city with one of the highest rates of poverty in the country, driven by deindustrialization and deunionization, the entrenchment of widespread joblessness and the proliferation of low-wage jobs. Through community organizing, leadership development, popular education and policy advocacy, the Workers’ Center of Central New York empowers low-wage workers to combat workplace abuses and improve wages and working conditions throughout the community.
The Workers’ Center facilitates worker empowerment and leadership development through trainings related to workers’ rights and occupational health and safety, orchestrates campaigns to combat wage theft and to promote employer compliance with the law, and engages in organizing and coalition-building to push for policies that will increase wages and workplace standards and promote human rights.