“As the majority of the workforce, Latina immigrant women bear the brunt of widespread wage theft in LA’s garment industry. In fact, the garment industry has exploited the labor of women, especially women of color, since its inception. California’s SB 62 proposes a sweeping change, including eliminating the piece-rate system and holding fashion brands accountable for wage theft.”
—Daisy Gonzales, Organizing Director, Garment Worker Center Los Angeles
Join our powerful conversation on Monday, April 26 at 2 pm PT, 5 pm ET to learn how women workers are not only leading the charge of the campaign for SB 62, but are also building powerful grassroots campaigns for worker rights and dignity around the world. Register here. GGJ, along with other movements around the world, commemorates the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh where the 2013 collapse of a garment factory building killed 1,134 people, mostly women workers. This year, we want to both memorialize this tragedy and celebrate the organizing of women who are fighting austerity measures and working to expand economic rights during the pandemic, in the U.S. and globally. Join our virtual rally to connect local, national, and global struggles of grassroots feminists for economic justice! When: April 26, 2:00 pm PT, 5 pm ET. Register here. Women and gender-oppressed people are creating solutions for real economic recovery, expanding worker rights, and demanding vaccines to ensure all workers are safe. We’ll hear from the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles fighting for the inclusion of essential workers in dignified minimum wage and citizenship
legislation to the national campaign to invest in the care economy through the THRIVE Act to the recent campaign for Bangladeshi women to gain back wages owed to them during the pandemic. Speakers include Nazma Akter, President of Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation and June Barrett, a leader with the We Dream in Black program of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, among others, and will be moderated by GGJ member Daisy Gonzalez of Garment Worker Center and Kitzia Esteva, GGJ’s Grassroots Feminisms
National Organizer. Event co-sponsors: Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Center for Third World Organizing, Garment Worker Center, Grassroots International, Green New Deal Network, It Takes Roots, MADRE, Miami Workers Center, National Domestic Workers Alliance-We Dream in Black, Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative, People's Action, People's Bailout, Rising Majority, and Women's Environment & Development Organization.
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