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