Alliances and Coalitions

La Raza Centro Legal is a co-founder of the National Domestic Worker Alliance which was founded at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum along with 12 other domestic worker organizations from 6 other cities around the U.S. This coalition has strengthened our local domestic worker organizing by raising the national visibility of the issue of domestic worker conditions and their struggle for justice. The opportunity for our members of Latin American immigrant women in San Francisco to have direct exchanges with organized groups of domestic workers in other cities and from other ethnic/national backgrounds will allow for a deeper and more strategic understanding of the role of domestic workers.

For more information please contact Jill Shenker at jill@lrcl.org

Mission:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance is an alliance of domestic and household workers in the United States and is a vehicle to build power nationally as a workforce. NDWA is organizing to improve the living and working conditions of domestic workers; win respect and justice from employers and government for exploited domestic workers; change the racism and sexism that has led to the persistent devaluing of this labor so that workers, their children, and the general public honor the dignity of domestic work; end the exclusion of domestic workers from recognition and protection; and continue a brave legacy of resistance by supporting movement-building among domestic workers and other communities and workers in struggle.

California Household Worker Coalition

The Women's Collective of the San Francisco Day Labor Program is a founding member of the California Household Worker Coalition along with Mujeres Unidas y Activas, the Filipino Workers Center, and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). In addition, we helped found a new national alliance of domestic worker organizations at the US Social Forum in Atlanta in June, 2007. We are currently launching a statewide campaign focused on regulation enforcement. This campaign aims to better protect domestic workers from abuses on the job.

For more information please contact Jill Shenker at jill@lrcl.org