Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers

The law will not save us. People power will. Humbled to work alongside powerful organizations like . Our Worker Power Happy Hour was joyful and inspiring. Please support this partnership and more by investing in our work and making a donation that is doable for you. No amount is too small. ✊🏽💕 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/grassroots-law-and-organizing-for-workers-1

GLOW is hiring! We are seeking a part-time, temporary Development Associate to help advance our mission of leveraging legal strategies to build Worker power and to play a key role in fundraising efforts.

Read more about the position & how to apply: bit.ly/3uapkvs (link in bio!)

GLOW is hiring! We are looking for a passionate Staff Attorney to advance our mission of leveraging legal strategies to build worker power.

Read more about the position & how to apply: bit.ly/GLOWAttorney (link in bio!)

Four years ago, National Legal Advocacy Network formed with the goal of providing legal support to worker centers, their members, and their campaigns. Since then, we have:

~ Reached over 65,000 low-wage workers
~ Put approximately $10 million back into the hands of low-wage workers and their communities
~ Provided technical legal support for over 30 organizing campaigns

As of January 2024, we will be GLOW: Grassroots Law and Organizing for Workers.

As you think about end of year gifts, please consider supporting our “glow up” by making a one time or recurring donation so we can continue to build and leverage value-aligned legal support for the low-wage worker movement.

DONATE: bit.ly/GLOWdonate (link in bio)

Our new report uncovers the unstable & unequal working conditions of Black & Latinx temp workers in Houston and Nashville.

RSVP to learn more at our release on Weds 12/12 at 3-4pm EST at bit.ly/UntanglingDiscrimination (link in bio!)

Tied to a history of slavery and sharecropping, the modern day temporary staffing industry continues to target Black, Brown, and immigrant workers with unstable, unsafe and substandard jobs.

In Houston and Nashville, our match-paired testing project found a pattern of discriminatory treatment.

Join us on Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 3pm EST for the release of our report Untangling Discrimination: How Temporary Staffing Agencies Rely on a Racist Business Model to Discriminate Against Black and Female Workers in Houston & Nashville.

RSVP at bit.ly/UntanglingDiscrimination (link in bio!)

Are you a temp worker? Do you make art? Drawings, poetry, music, etc. If so, we want to hear from you! Send us a DM!

✨Victory! ✨

The Illinois Temp Worker Fairness & Safety Act (TWFSA) was signed into law last week & raises the bar for temp worker protections across the country.

Temp workers have known what they deserve for their labor for years, and it's about time the law recognizes that -- key provisions of the TWFSA include equal pay for equal work, improved training & safety standards and stronger enforcement tools to hold staffing agencies accountable when they violate the law.

NLAN was proud to support the passage of this law alongside leaders and Temp Worker Justice. Huge shout out to long time temp workers & NLAN former clients who went to Springfield to talk to lawmakers and organized with community members to ensure their voices were heard & this law was passed. Congratulations! ✨

The Supreme Court will soon issue a ruling that will consider the lawfulness of affirmative action in college admissions decisions.

Join us on Friday, June 16th at 1:00pm EDT for a webinar where panelists, including NLAN Executive Director Sheila Maddali, will discuss the limited application of these cases to employer practices, including DEIA measures, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, and other protected categories.

Panelists will also discuss the lawfulness and importance of employer initiatives to create opportunities and foster workplaces free from discrimination, particularly for Black workers and other workers who continue to face significant barriers in accessing good jobs.

RSVP today - link in bio!

Join NLAN & NILC for a training on setting up Deferred Action clinics this Friday, April 28 at 1:30pm EST.

Based on new guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, workers involved in labor disputes against their employers may be able to apply for temporary immigration protection & work authorization in the form of Deferred Action.

Friday’s training will provide an overview of the DHS guidance and clinic models that can support worker organizing and Deferred Action applications.

DM us if you/your org is interested in attending!

This week, NLAN and 43 partners united to@oppose corporate tax credits that subsidize precarious, poverty-wage employment.

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is, in its current form, a driver of and racial inequality. Public dollars should support good-quality, permanent jobs.

Read our comments here: bit.ly/88-FR-10540

Temp workers and advocates gather in Springfield, IL today to push for the Temp Worker Fairness and Safety Act, a bill that would increase protections for temp workers throughout the state.

Brave & fed up temp workers have spent the past two days talking to legislators and giving testimony to support this bill and fight for better jobs in IL.

Do you have questions about filing your taxes?

Join us on March 14 at 5pm CST for an informative workshop that will cover basic tax-filing tips, how to report unemployment insurance, information on tax credits & more.

RSVP at: bit.Lu/3Y2zRBG (link also in bio!)

NLAN’s Sheila Maddali and Erica England at last night’s WorkRise Leadership Board & Funder Dinner.

Big thanks to WorkRise for supporting organizations like ours that center workers’ rights.

Workers rights advocates in Illinois’s gathered yesterday to launch the campaign for the IL Temp Worker Fairness and Safety Act, a bill that would increase protections and rights for temp workers across the state.

The bill includes provisions for:
~ Equal Pay for Equal Work
~ Equal training on the job
~ Demographic reporting requirements for staffing agencies
~ Stronger enforcement tools so that workers can enforce their legal rights
~ & more!

National Legal Advocacy Network is proud to support this bill and fight for workers being exploited by the temporary staffing industry. Also backing the bill is Representative Edgar Gonzalez Jr., Senator Robert Peters and local worker centers led by Chicago Workers Collaborative.

In 2022, in collaboration with worker center partners, NLAN has:

~ Put $1,602,000 back in the hands of workers and their families through community focused litigation
~ Engaged over 1.5 million workers in low-wage industries through litigation, legal education and law & organizing opportunities
~ Mobilized over 50 attorneys to support workers & their members

Please consider donating to NLAN so we can keep building value-aligned legal support for the low wage worker movement.

n-lan.org/donate (link in bio!)

NLAN’s Executive Director Sheila Maddali has been selected as a 2022 Fellow for the innovative law & organizing work she leads at NLAN.

She is one of 20 leaders selected for their bold ideas for and devotion to advancing justice in their communities. Go Sheila!

Check out the rest of the amazing fellows and the work they're doing to disrupt injustice and build power at the link in our bio.

Join NLAN & for our third and final workshop in our Temp Workers’ Rights series.

We’ve talked about wage & hour and discrimination so far and on 12/15 we will be discussing organizing and self-advocacy — what you can do to fight back for yourself and others when your rights are violated.

RSVP at uwunited.com/KYR-workshop or at the link in our bio.

This past weekend, NLAN & Temp Worker Justice organized the first national Temp Worker Advocacy Convening in New Jersey with our friends at New Labor and Make the Road NJ.

We were joined by temp workers, organizers, lawyers, advocates & academics from organizations across the country including MassCOSH, Justice at Work, Philly Black Worker Project, Unemployed Workers United, Temp Worker Union Alliance Project, Chicago Workers’ Collaborative, National Black Worker Center, National Employment Law Project, Partners for Dignity & Rights, Workplace Justice Lab at RU, WorkSafe and more.

We heard powerful messages from temp workers about their experiences on the job including discrimination, wage theft, health & safety violations, workplace deaths & more. We collectively discussed strategies to continue organizing, building & fighting back against exploitative staffing agencies and their client companies so that ALL temp workers have access to safe & dignified work. Si se puede!

Join us & for our second Know Your Rights workshop for temp work seekers, this time focused on discrimination. We will discuss relevant laws and examples of how discrimination uniquely shows up in temp work.

Sign up at uwunited.com/kyr-workshop or at the link in our bio.

Discrimination in the workplace IS illegal, but it also IS common.
Employers push workers out of application pools based on race, s*x, gender, and age.

We want to make sure all workers are ready to fight against prejudice.

Join the workshop with National Legal Advocacy Network and Unemployed Workers United on November 17 at 6 PM CT to find out how. RSVP here: uwunited.com/kyr-workshop

Join our virtual Know Your Rights workshop tomorrow, Oct 25, with

Tomorrow’s workshop will cover Wage & Hour laws - it’s the first of three KYR focused on temp work. Catch them all by RSVP’ing at the link in our bio, uwunited.com/kyr-workshop

Join us tomorrow at 6pm CST!