| Every couple of months the WISH website spotlights a member -- you can read about their work and learn about their strategies to improve the health and safety of immigrant workers. Click on the name of the organization to go to description of their projects.
Asian Law Caucus:
The Nail Salon Project
The Asian Law Caucus (ALC) is a civil rights organization established to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. ALC’s Nail Salon Project addresses the health and safety issues faced by Vietnamese immigrant women working in nail salons in the Bay Area. By conducting outreach to workers and owners, ALC, in coordination with the UCSF Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and School of Nursing, encourages the adoption of practices aimed at reducing injuries and illnesses. Trainings for workers focus on the areas of Skin & Infectious Disease, Chemicals & Ventilation, Ergonomics, and Workers’ Rights. The Project also fosters leadership among these workers so that they can conduct peer trainings, and participate and recruit for safe workplace advocacy.
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of personal transformation and community power. MUA’s Caring Hands (“Manos Cariñosas”) project is a multi-service workers’ center that provides job training and placements to over 40 women each year as home health care and childcare providers and housecleaners. It is a workers’ association through which members learn to negotiate contracts and how to best present themselves to employers, while also building skills and participating in workers’ rights campaigns that teach immigrant women how to advocate for themselves.
San Francisco Department of Public Health / La Raza Centro Legal
Watsonville Law Center : The Agricultural Workers' Access to Health Project
The Watsonville Law Center serves a predominantly low-income, agricultural community, and focuses on providing services related to worker's compensation, consumer fraud, economic justice, and barriers to employment. The WLC delivers its services through one-on-one consultations, drop-in advice clinics, and direct representation. Services are available to all low-income residents of Santa Cruz , San Benito , and Monterey Counties . Services are available in Spanish and English.
Watsonville Law Center
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