Defending Worker Rights: Local Campaigns and Models

The member organizations of the Day Labor and Contingent Work Campaign and other groups around the country have engaged in successful campaigns to defend workers' rights and improve their working conditions. Many have developed innovative model programs, laws and structures in an effort to create more systemic, long-term solutions to the problems outlined in this report. Whether urban, rural or suburban-these experiences together offer compelling guidance to local, state and federal policy makers.

• Voces de la Frontera (VF), Milwaukee, WI
• Casa de Maryland, Silver Spring, MD
• Merrimack Valley Project (MVP), Lawrence, MA
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Los Angeles, CA
• Workplace Project, Long Island, NY
• Michigan Organizing Project (MOP), Muskegon, MI

Individual Cases From the National Alliance for Fair Employment

• Manufacturer Held Liable for Subcontractors Nonpayment of Wages
  Ruffina Herrera Vargas
  New York City
• Temp Decries Sex Discrimination
  Tracy Jones
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Immigrant Worker Owed Many Months of Back Wages
  Sun Kim
  Los Angeles
• Truckers Seek Fair Pay Scale
  Tesfay Yetbarek
  Seattle, Washington
• Temp Workers Lack Basic Employment Benefits
  Luz Rivera
  Providence, Rhode Island
• Trades Workers Organize to Maintain Fair Wages
  John Ballantine
  Hackensack, New Jersey
• Leased Employees Seek Equal Treatment
  Moira Casey
  Anchorage, Alaska
• Seasonal Workers Win Parity With Permanent Staff
  Marvin Valdivia
  Madison, Wisconsin
• Permatemps Seek Long-Term Security
  Kathleen Higgins
  Sparta, New Jersey
• Temps Find Health Insurance Inaccessible
  Tom Sullivan
  Boston, Massachussetts
• Day Laborers Lack Training, Face Risks
  Rasheem A. Al-Kaleem
  Boston, Massachussetts
• Contract Workers Organizing
  Barbara Prear
  Hillsborough, North Carolina
• Part-Time Faculty Earn a Pittance for Equal Work
  Michelle Kelly
  Seattle, Washington
• Contractors Need Health Benefits
  Deanna Christian
  Seattle, Washington

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