Workers Center

Jonny Arevalo, the Workers Center Lead Organizer, leads a workers' rights training.

Between May and November 2008, the North Shore Labor Council engaged immigrant workers, community allies, and labor representatives in a series of discussions about creative ways to solve the problem of rampant immigrant worker exploitation in our region. Together we determined that the most effective way to address the root causes of this problem was to establish a democratic, constituent-led Worker Center. The Worker Center for Economic Justice aims to build the power of low-wage immigrant workers on the North Shore, particularly in those in Lynn and other urban communities, to organize for safe, decent, and just working conditions.

Through a high-impact four-tiered model—popular education, participatory action research, community organizing, and public policy development and advocacy—the Worker Center for Economic Justice engages its constituents directly in the process of identifying and developing strategies to promote change in their workplaces and communities.