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WORKER’S JUSTICE PROJECT

Women Economic Justice Initiative

Building Worker Power

From The Bottom Up

We are an organization that educates, organizes and fights for better working

conditions. We are an community union of organized workers doing things together

that we can not do it alone. We are based on a membership based.

Building organized worker power to set new

Standards

• Health and Safety

Standards (Not

Cleaning on your

knees)

• Set minimum

Wage of $15 / $20

• Lunch Break

• Free from sexually

harassed while

cleaning homes

- Eat in the home

where they work or

bring their own

food

• Get paid in full for

all the hours that

they have worked

Building A New Economy From Bottom-Up

Collective Power to Set New Standards

• Ownership and Control of Labor

• $20 Per Hour

• Safe working practices

• Flexible Schedule Hours

• Paid Vacation Time

• Training and Leadership Development

Stand Up To Clean Up!

Levántate para Limpiar!

Better Working conditions For House Cleaners

Important Worker Demands For

Members

• Workers will establish a minimum wage

of $12 per hour

• Workers and employers will come to an

agreement on work to be completed

(and what will not be completed) before

the job begins

• Workers have the right to be provided

with safety equipment appropriate to

their job and training

• Workers have the right to be given

breaks, access to drinking water, and an

area to store their (non Kosher) food so

they can eat during the work day