Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)

CTUL’s Core Values + Work

At CTUL we believe in the dignity of all work and in the leadership potential of all people. A donation to Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (the Center for Workers United in Struggle) supports our Construction campaign as we take on developers who have multiple reports of egregious labor practices and support workers with Know Your Rights outreach and our worker leadership development programs, equipping more low-wage workers with the knowledge and confidence to make change in their own workplaces as well as at the systemic level. 

Through CTUL, we come together across differences in language, background, and industry to learn about our workplace rights and the systemic forces that perpetuate the injustices we experience on the job. We map power, foster Black-brown solidarity, and build campaigns for transformative change. 

A donation of any amount supports our worker crisis fund which aids workers when they are experiencing bad conditions and need immediate aid. 

Through CTUL, workers have recovered more than $4 million in stolen wages since 2008 and played key roles in campaigns for essential worker pay, paid sick days, and a higher minimum wage in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. 

Staff and Members of our Defensores team at CTUL's 2022 Juneteenth event, run by Future Fighters (our campaign to support Black workers) and partner organizations, honoring our fight for $15 going fully into effect in 2022. 

 

Dignity and Respect March (June 16th 2022) CTUL's Construction Campaign:

We are calling on three major developers that rely on non-union construction labor, Yellow Tree, United Properties, and Solhem to join the Building Dignity and Respect Program (BDR). The non-union construction industry is known for unjust labor practices, including, unsafe job sites, worker injuries going unaddressed, consistent wage theft, and harmful threats to vulnerable workers. The Building Dignity and Respect Council (BDC) is an enforcement council ready to hold developers accountable to fair labor practices. CTUL is organizing construction workers as we continue to invite these three developers to join BDR.

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