AFL-CIO Partners with Domestic Workers Alliance, National
Guestworkers' Alliance 

By James Parks 
In Organizing & Bargaining
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
May 10, 2011

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/05/10/afl-cio-partners-with-domestic-workers-alliance-national-guestworkers-alliance/


 	AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka signs partnership
	agreement with the National Domestic Workers
	Alliance.

In a historic move, the AFL-CIO today signed new, separate
partnership agreements with the National Domestic Workers
Alliance [1] and the National Guestworkers' Alliance. The
landmark agreements outline a framework for the groups to
partner around issues of organizing, winning rights for
excluded workers and building long-term relationships. The
new partnership agreements kicked off the three-day Excluded
Workers Congress in New York City.

The partnerships are part of the AFL-CIO's outreach to the
growing numbers of workers whose fundamental rights are not
guaranteed by law and who are often excluded from safety
protections and other legal protections, including the right
to organize for better living standards and a voice on the
job. In 2006, the AFL-CIO signed a similar agreement with
workers' centers, partnering with the National Day Laborer
Organizing Network [2] (NDLON).  Also in 2006, the New York
Taxi Workers' Alliance [3] became the first workers' center
to become a member of the New York City Central Labor
Council.

Barbara Young, a nanny and national organizer with the
National Domestic Workers Alliance, said:

We are proud to fight together with our union brothers and
sisters to defend and expand the right to organize, win
justice for immigrants, and ensure that one day the workers
that make all other work possible - cleaning and caring for
children and seniors - will have rights, respect, and
recognition.

'We are signing these partnership agreements because we can't
rely on the law alone if we want to fight for the inclusion
of all workers,' said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

We have to work together and take collective action: We extend
our hand to all the organizations of the Excluded Workers
Congress and workers around the world who are part of this
struggle in partnership and in solidarity.

 'Starting today, guest workers and U.S. workers will work to
 transform workplaces across the United States together,'
 said Saket Soni of the National Guestworkers' Alliance.

And starting today, we will work to expand the right to
organize for all global workers regardless of where they were
born.

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