Building Worker Power Through Workforce Development final 10-4-2024 - Flipbook - Page 5
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The type of worker organization ReWork the Bay
partnered with on this project is referred to as a
Community Labor Partnership (CLP): a coalition of
grassroots community organizations and organized
labor affiliates fighting for social and economic justice
by building the power of low-wage working people.
Four Bay Area CLPs in the Bay Area carried out this
project: North Bay Jobs with Justice (serving Napa
and Sonoma County workers), Jobs with Justice SF
(serving San Francisco workers), East Bay Alliance for
a Sustainable Economy (serving East Bay workers),
and Working Partnerships USA (serving Silicon Valley
workers). Jobs with Justice San Francisco led the
coordination among the four regions.
Together, project partners trained over two hundred workers across
the four Bay Area regions, the majority of whom are systematically
excluded workers including:
• Workers in farming, transportation, •
hospitality, climate resilience,
domestic work, landscaping,
•
social services, and unemployed
•
or underemployed workers
• Black men
• Returning citizens
Longstanding and newcomer
immigrant communities
Indigenous communities
Youth, young adults, and seniors
• Speakers of English,
Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin,
and Cantonese
Because each worker organization serves different communities of
excluded workers throughout the Bay Area, the curriculum was
adapted and designed according to the needs of workers who
participated in the pilot. This same 昀氀exibility allowed pilot sites to
design an approach responsive to their local context extended to the
selection of partners and program design at each Bay Area site.
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