Labor Organizing

Our Vision of Economic and Worker Justice

CTU’s goal is to build worker power through organizing. We educate and organize workers to be able to address injustices that they are experiencing in their workplace. As a member-led worker center, CTU works to ensure that low-wage workers impacted by poverty and structural racism are fully involved in their individuals labor cases and are the ones making key decisions about collective actions and campaigns. Workers are encouraged to deepen their involvement in CTU by attending Labor Committee meetings, organizer trainings, member meetings and providing support to other affected community members. In addition to mediating workplace problems, we organize to recover stolen wages and when needed, strategize and develop campaigns and collective actions led by workers against local employers.

At Centro de Trabjadores Unidos, our labor work is based on building worker and immigrant power through organizing. Current CTU programs and organizing efforts address the interrelated and intersectional labor and immigration issues facing our communities in Southeast Chicago and the south suburbs.

In working to pass policy change that affects low-wage workers and organizing large scale public campaigns, we empower workers to learn the root causes of labor injustices, publicly expose issues of labor exploitation and give the broader community the opportunity to engage in supporting local initiatives.

For more information, or to participate in our labor navigator program, please call:

Maria Coronado, Director of Organizing

mcoronado@ctu-iwp.org

773-909-3389