Episode 56: Ligia Guallpa of Worker’s Justice Project

Ligia Guallpa is the Executive Director of Worker’s Justice Project in New York City.

From http://www.workersjustice.org/about-us: Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) is a Brooklyn-based worker center that addresses the racial and economic injustice that day laborers and domestic workers face by building collective power and creating solutions to the problems our members experience at work and in communities where they live. WJP has a growing a membership based that is building power to win protection, adopt, enforce community labor standards and transform exploitative labor practices in unregulated industries such as construction and house cleaning.

Their mission is to empower low-wage immigrant workers to gain a voice in the workplace and build strong and economically sustainable communities through education, organizing, leadership development, and the growth of grassroots economic alternatives.

Their main goals are to change the conditions that lead to exploitation, to strengthen the grassroots base of the labor movement, and to create grassroots economic alternatives.

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Episode #56 Notes

0:30- How did Worker’s Justice Project come about?

1:45 - What needs does WJP meet for the community?

3:00 - How are decisions made in your organization?

5:30 - What’s it’s been like to be an essential worker during COVID-19? Construction, home healthcare, etc.

9:15 - What are some of the campaigns WJP has worked on?

17:30 - HEROES Act and the Fund for Excluded Workers projects.

22:00 - What are the strategic program areas of WJP?

25:00 - US immigration policies effects on people’s lives and livelihoods.

29:00 - What changes are required in the food system to make things better for essential workers?

32:30 - What is the future of WJP and your members?

34:15 - How to support WJP and closing thoughts.