Northern California Worker Center Joins Local AFL-CIO

Says Sharon Cornu, secretary-treasurer of the CLC:

Low-wage and immigrant workers in Oakland face enormous challenges in enforcing their labor and employment rights, rendering them ripe for exploitation at the hands of unscrupulous employers. Working together, union members and day laborers will promote and enforce greater workplace rights for all workers' union and nonunion, immigrant and native-born alike.

Patricia Loya, executive director of the Centro Legal de la Raza, adds:

The challenges facing low-wage and middle-class workers are closely connected. Together, we'll be stronger in the fight for workers' most basic rights' a right to decent pay, to a safe workplace and fair treatment.