The Abundance Setting: The Abundance Setting encourages and supports the advancement of women and working mothers in the culinary & hospitality industry to have a thriving career while maintaining a quality life at home. [Website] [IG]
Arise Chicago: Arise Chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes. [Website] [IG]
The CHAAD Project: The CHAAD project is an organization created by and for hospitality workers in Chicago to advance accountability and end labor abuses within the industry. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Community and Workers Rights: Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights (CCWR) was founded in June 2009 by a group of Latino immigrant workers who saw a need for an organization dedicated to empowering all laborers to defend their rights. CCWR is an organization led by workers for workers, regardless of immigration status, dedicated to educating, building leadership, and gathering resources in order to develop organizing tools and collective strategies of resistance against labor rights abuses, towards just living conditions for our families. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC): The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee is a prison-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. Its purpose is ‘a union for the incarcerated,’ with the goal of abolishing prison slavery, as well as fighting to end the exploitation of working-class people around the world. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Jobs With Justice: A coalition of unions & community organizations that mounts meaningful campaigns for workers’ rights & social & economic justice. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Unity Center: The Chicago Unity Center is a historic hub of organizing, learning, and community in Chicago’s near South Side created by the Workers Education Society. The UC houses the Communist Party of Illinois, People’s World editorial office, and a CEDA program that assists low-income families with energy bills, health care, and social security navigation. The space also hosts a plethora of community groups—ranging from language learning circles to neighborhood organizing coalitions to migrant support. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Workers Collaborative: Chicago Workers Collaborative’s mission is to promote the creation of stable, living wage jobs with racial and gender equity through leadership development, advocacy, direct action and community resources. [Website] [IG]
Equity and Transformation (e.a.t.): The mission of Equity and Transformation (EAT) is to build social and economic equity for Black workers engaged in the informal economy. [Website]
Grassroots Collaborative: Grassroots Collaborative builds power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training. Their 9 member organizations and 125,000 members, along with an effective and diverse set of ally organizations across movements, create transformative change to win fully funded resources for our public schools, social services, and affordable housing that working families depend on. [Website] [IG]
Greater Chicago IWW: The Greater Chicago IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) strives to build local and regional working class solidarity as a General Membership Branch of the IWW through organizing, advocacy and promotion of worker’s rights. [Website] [IG]
IL Workers in Action: IWA strives to build worker power in immigrant, Latinx, and black communities by working to advance systemic change that promotes racial and social justice and stabilizes low-income immigrants and communities of color. [Website] [IG]
Illinois Childcare for All Coalition: A parent and childcare worker-led coalition working for a public, universal system of childcare funded by taxing the rich. [Website]
Latino Union: Latino Union of Chicago builds power with Day Laborers, Household Workers, and other contracted workers to fight for social and economic justice through education, organizing, advocacy, and coalition building. [Website] [IG]
National LGBTQ Workers Center: The National LGBTQ Workers Center (NLWC) is a collective made by and for Black and Brown, trans, gender-expansive, queer, sick and disabled workers. They use political education, community support spaces, and organizing, to cultivate worker power, organizational capacity, and collective resilience amongst all LGBTQIA2S workers. They commit to including non unionized workers, sexworkers, informal sector workers, and those who are unemployed or underemployed at all levels of our membership and leadership. [Website] [IG]
Northwestern University Graduate Workers United Electrical Local 1122: NUGW-UE is an antiracist, feminist labor union fighting for better working and living conditions for all graduate workers at Northwestern. [Website] [IG]
Social Service Workers United: Social service workers and social work students in Chicagoland organizing for better pay, improved working conditions, and collective liberation. [IG]
Starbucks Workers United Chicago: A coalition of workers at Chicago Starbucks locations unionizing and organizing to demand a fair contract. [IG]
Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP): Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago is a Black-led, grassroots organization dedicated to providing direct aid and advocacy for anyone working in the sex industry. SWOP Chicago members are current and former sex workers and sex trafficking survivors working together to promote the autonomy and rights of people in the industry. [Website] [IG]
Support Ho(s)e Collective: The Support Ho(s)e Collective is a small Leftist formation of sex workers (current and former) and trusted co-conspirators. They build a radical community for all sex workers through political education and public agitation and coordinate the Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Campaign. The collective provides resource-based support for grassroots organizing, including lessons learned on building popular defense campaigns for criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, sex worker-centered political education syllabi, planning protests and demonstrations, holding space for in/formal knowledge sharing sessions, and tool-kits on Media and Health/Wellness from sex working perspectives. [Website]
United Workers’ Center / Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers’ Center is a grassroots member-led community organization and worker center serving Chicago’s southeast side and south suburbs. CTU strives to build immigrant and worker power by working to advance systemic change that promotes social justice and stabilizes low-income immigrant communities and communities of color. [Website] [IG]
Warehouse Workers for Justice: Warehouse Workers for Justice is a worker center fighting for good living-wage jobs in Illinois’ warehouse and transportation industry. [Website] [IG]
Workers Center for Racial Justice: A grassroots organization fighting for Black Liberation and for a fair and inclusive society that benefits all people. The Workers Center for Racial Justice organizes Black workers and their families to address the root causes of high rates of unemployment, low-wage work and over-criminalization impacting Black communities. [Website] [IG]
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