Calling migrant workers, advocates and mutual aid volunteers!
Do migrants know what the minimum wage is in Chicago? What should they do if an employer refuses to pay them? How should they navigate an unsafe work site?
Join City Bureau and Chicago labor advocates to get answers on these questions and more at our Public Newsroom event at the Chicago Art Department in the Pilsen neighborhood. Meet labor organizers and journalists covering migrant labor, pick up a Know Your Rights workers’ guide, and connect with local organizations fighting for immigrant and worker rights.
This FREE community event will include food and a panel discussion.
Meet our panelists!
Latino Union of Chicago is a worker center that builds power with day laborers, household workers, and other contracted workers to fight for social and economic justice through education, organizing, advocacy, and coalition building. Day Laborer Organizer Harold De Jesus joins as a speaker!
Raise the Floor Alliance is a coalition of worker centers that help organize and provide support to communities of low-wage workers who are not already members of a collective bargaining organization or have been legally excluded from coverage by U.S. labor laws.
Legal Director Kevin Herrera joins as a speaker! Kevin Herrera is the Legal Director at Raise the Floor Alliance, where he collaborates with organizers at seven worker centers to defend and advance the rights of communities working in low-wage industries through litigation, policy advocacy, and popular education. His work focuses on ending the exploitation of workers and full access to civic life for immigrants while fighting surveillance, the carceral state, and deportation. Herrera previously worked at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, the National Immigration Law Center, and Just Futures Law.
Chicago Workers Collaborative promotes the creation of stable, living-wage jobs with racial and gender equity through leadership development, advocacy, direct action, and community resources.
Please RSVP to this event if you are a Chicago-based advocate, organizer or volunteer with work centered on labor rights in the migrant community.
Masking is mandatory when participants are not eating or drinking. Please stay home if you are feeling unwell.
