New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
Legal Department
New Orleans, LA
Founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice ("NOWCRJ") is dedicated to organizing workers across race and industry to build the power and participation of workers and communities.
Recognizing that its members and organizing campaigns needed legal support, the Workers' Center developed a strategic legal advocacy and litigation component that gave us the capacity to build and use legal strategy to strengthen worker-led organizing campaigns and, in June 2008, the Workers' Center opened a legal department.
We organize day laborers, guestworkers, and homeless residents to build movement for dignity and rights in the post-Katrina landscape. NOWCRJ supports three grassroots membership organizations - the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity, the Congress of Day Laborers, and STAND with Dignity. From labor camps, day labor corners, evacuation shelters, and detention centers, NOWCRJ's members have pioneered strategies to defend grassroots labor leaders from retaliation by employers, police, and DHS enforcement agencies using direct action, administrative compalints, civil litigation, and immigration defense.
The Peggy Browning Fellow will work closely with NOWCRJ's legal director to provide legal support to defend and expand the right to organize for members of the Workers' Center's grassroots projects - many of whom are excluded by law or by practice from traditional labor and employment laws. NOWCRJ's legal department provides legal support to our grassroots organizing projects and our members to protect the right to organize, to build worker and community power, and to force employers and federal, state, and local agencies to comply with existing laws.
The total ten-week stipend for this fellowship will be $4,500.
Address cover letter to:
Jennifer J. Rosenbaum
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
217 N. Prieur Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-309-5165
Connect with us on