WORKERS CENTER

A grassroots organization focused on workplace and economic justice. WCCNY 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. 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... The Workers' Center of Central New York is a grassroots organization focused on workplace and economic justice... In 2005, the CNY Labor-Religion..

Also known as: WCCNY, Workers, Workers Center of CNY, Workers' Center of Central New York

Primary location: Syracuse United States