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Featured speaker: Julio López Varona, Co-director of Community Dignity Campaigns, Center For Popular Democracy.
Read about it here.
Featured speaker: Julio López Varona, Co-director of Community Dignity Campaigns, Center For Popular Democracy.
Read about it here.
Following this win, United for Respect hasn’t been resting on its laurels. In 2018, the group launched its Rise Up Retail project alongside the Center for Popular Democracy and OUR (Organization United for Respect) Walmart.
“Esta semana se recuerdan dos años del paso devastador del huracán María por Puerto Rico.
Organizations host events calling for repeal and replace of ’94 Crime Bill – Organizations including Leaders Igniting Transformation, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, African American Roundtable, JustLeadershipUSA, All of Us or None, and Center for Popular Democracy host ‘Opposition Day:
Rachel Deutsch, supervising attorney for worker justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, says this kind of strategic enforcement—lumping many complaints together to identify bad actors rather than investigating them one at a time—may draw more attention to compliance across the industry.
The report, released by the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative, the National Employment Law Project Action Fund, the Center For Popular Democracy, and other groups, echoes demands from organized labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union.
A landmark 2017 report from the Center for Popular Democracy and the Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) noted that there had been “1,310 arrests, summonses, or juvenile reports for non-criminal violations” in the city school system in the previous year, including “‘trespassing’ for being on the wron
Of course, Powell did not get to this place on his own. There was a concerted effort by the Fed Up Coalition, organized by the Center for Popular Democracy, to force the Fed to broaden its focus.
The report, by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy, paints a stark picture of what would happen to workers at the mercy of arbitrators. Statistics show that supposedly neutral quasi-judges side with bosses more than 90% of the time.
