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Organizing Accomplishments
- National Domestic Worker Alliance: This past year the Women's Collective helped found a new national alliance of domestic worker organizations. This unprecedented multi-racial and multi-lingual alliance of domestic workers held a national domestic worker conference in New York City this past spring.
- Social Security No-Match: We worked with our civil liberties and labor movement allies to stop the implementation of new "Social Security No-Match" regulations that would have had devastating effects on immigrant and Latino workers and their families. A federal judge issued a preliminary order in Oct 2007, stopping the government from enforcing this new rule that would use Social Security records for immigration enforcement. The order prevents any implementation -- until the court makes a final ruling after trial -- of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule punishing employers if they do not take action after receiving Social Security "no-match" letters. As of April 2008 this ruling still stands
- National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON): A historic agreement between NDLON and the AFL-CIO, which we helped to broker, led the AFL-CIO to oppose the Sensenbrenner bill and other anti-immigrant legislative provisions coming out of Congress.
- NDLON: We helped to organize in a regional conference in July 2007 and the national conference in Washington, DC in August 2007. We sent a delegation of 3 domestic workers and 3 day laborers to this national conference, where we led and facilitated several workshops. We will continue to coordinate regional conferences over the next few years.
- LRCL has participated in Black/Brown Unity meetings, which have included representatives from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), the CLEAR Project, and St. Peter's Housing Committee. These organizations have been begun to develop a collective political agenda to pursue in San Francisco, issues include; repeal of the failed gang injunction, alternative community-based responses to violence, and environmental justice to end toxic pollution in neighborhoods of color.
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