The Workplace Justice Project organizes immigrant workers to ensure respect for workers¹ legal rights and dignity, enforcement of labor laws, access to living wages, access to health insurance, and support for workers¹ right to organize in the workplace.

» The project coordinated a successful boycott of another Bushwick area retailer, collecting over 800 signatures of community residents committed to using their power as consumers to ensure that the store respect the dignity of its workers. As a result of legal action, coupled with protests and our boycott, we won a major back wages award for a group of Mexican immigrant women who had been denied their labor rights for years. Until recently, these employees were regularly required to work for well over fifty hours a week without receiving overtime pay ­ or even minimum wage, in some circumstances.

» In 2004, our Workers in Action Committee was on the front lines of local, city and state efforts to promote respect for working people. Make the Road by Walking members were an integral part of a multi-agency coalition that successfully increased New York State¹s minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.15. This change will benefit over one million New Yorkers!

For more information, contact:
organizing@maketheroad.org