Workers Of The World, Unite!

Monday, January 3, 2005

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)


Start the New Year right by exploring innovative strategies for organizing workers at the Metro Council’s Organizing Roundtable on January 25. In India, the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) of India organizes street vendors, rag pickers and salt producers in a movement that has created a network of services to support the needs of informal workers.  In South Africa, the Self-Employed Women's Union (SEWU) organizes street vendors and the Women’s Farm Project organizes rural women workers.  HomeNet Thailand organizes homebased workers and works with similar organizations throughout the world.  Both SEWA and SEWU are members of Global Union Federations and consider themselves unions.  They have worked with other informal worker organizations to create international networks such as Streetnet, Homenet and the Women in the Informal Economy Globalizing and Organizing. Here in Washington, UNITE and SEIU 82 are using creative new tactics in their ongoing campaigns to organize low-wage women laundry workers and service workers. FREE and open to all, but pre-registration is required: register now at streetheat@dclaborarchives.org

 

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