Day Labor Organizing

We organize day laborers and community members to come together to create better working conditions and to push for government policies that will respect the rights of day laborers to seek work in peace.

Our message to decisionmakers is that repression of day laborers who are just looking for jobs is not only an ineffective way to address the issue, it actually increases human rights violations. For statistical evidence, see our Study of Long Island Day Laborers, conducted in conjunction with Hofstra University.

Day Labor Organizing Project

Who is a Day Laborer?

Definition: a worker who is hired for the time necessary to complete a job, usually paid daily.

 

Permanent Campaigns:

 

¨ Creation of Recognized Day Labor

           Hiring Sites

¨ Recuperation of Unpaid Wages

¨ Referrals for Accidents on the Job

¨ Education and Organizing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Labor Centres Opened on Long Island

 

Casa Comunal of Farmingdale:

150 South Front St. Farmingdale NY, 11735  (516-249-0416).

Opened in 2002 as a cooperation with two local organizations in Farmingdale: HOLA, a Latino organization, and FCVS- Farmingdale Citizens for Viable Solutions.  The center offers computer classes, english classes, general references.

 

Freeport Community Worklink Center.

Municipal Parking lot at 100 Bennington  Ave. Freeport, NY 11520  516-425-0620

This day labor hiring site opened in 2003 as a cooperation between the Workplace Project, the Village of Freeport, Catholic Charities and a neighborhood group which would later be named  Freeport Community Worklink Center. The center offers helpers and workers for construction, demolition, landscaping, etc. The other services include education and references.

 

Farmingville Community Support Center (631)732-4712-3 – Fax 631-732-5349

1266 Waverly Ave., Farmingville, NY

Opened in 2003, through a collaboration between United Day Laborers of Long Island and, at that time, BCPS. This center is not a day labor hiring site, but offers other services such as education around workers rights, ESL, computer classes, immigration workshop, and others, as well as general referrals. See our Farmingville program area for more details (click here).

 

 

III- OTHERS

 

1-Needs

Volunteers for Unpaid wages recuperation, can volunteer from home.

 

2-Where are the day labor corners on Long Island? Franklin Square, Hempstead (Home Depot), Freeport, Farmingdale, Roslyn Heights, Westbury, Glen Cove and Inwood 

 

3-Links: Nacional Day Labor Organizing Network—Red Nacional Jornaleros, WWW.NDLON.ORG

Day Laborer Meeting

Did you know that:

 

Almost half of day laborers surveyed have been forced to work without being paid?

About 40% reported that their contractor pressured them to keep working even after being injured?

Government and police repression make community relations significantly worse?

Learn more by reading our study: Protecting Human Rights in a Global Economy: The Impact of Government Responses to Day Labor Markets, conducted by Workplace Project members, day laborers and Hofstra University.