What We Do
We lead workers’ rights trainings on important topics such as wage and hour, workers’ compensation, and labor trafficking. We accompany workers whose rights have been denied–namely victims of labor trafficking–through the legal process. We prompt and pursue investigations into businesses that systematically exploit and traffic workers. And we develop new, innovative models for promoting workers’ rights and ensuring a fair and just future for all workers in our state.
Trainings:
The Naomi Project facilitates workers’ rights trainings at churches, non-profits, or wherever we are invited to come. At these trainings, we cover the basics of what people’s rights are regarding wage and hour, workplace injury, and in situations of labor trafficking. We also share patterns of injustice across different industries as well as a set of strategies someone could pursue to redress nan injustice. These workers’ rights trainings are increasingly led by worker-leaders who speak from their own personal experience of injustice.
Worker Accompaniment:
In addition to educating people about worker rights and strategies workers who have suffered injustice could pursue, we walk with people who seek to recover stolen wages, appeal denied workers’ compensation cases, or apply for T-visas in cases of labor trafficking. In doing so, we support people who may be feeling discouraged about achieving justice in their situation and provide ongoing feedback and encouragement as people take the next step in their road to justice.
Leadership Development:
Beyond wanting to see stolen wages paid in full, unjustly denied workers’ compensation cases successfully appealed, and t-visa applications approved, we want workers who for different reasons are more vulnerable to injustice to be equipped to stand up for themselves and others in the workplace. This means that, in addition to workers’ rights trainings, we facilitate community organizing trainings on effective ways we can use collective action to advance justice.