Program Introduction

The Workers’ Rights program aims to empower essential workers in the meatpacking and healthcare sectors to drive a safe and gainful working environment. It provides training on workers’ rights. The program deploys strategies such as community engagement and organizing through ethnocultural communities to inform systems change in policies, practices and decision-making, among others.

Services We Provide

• Community Conversation Circle: A safe space for ethnocultural communities to voice their lived and living experiences on workers’ rights and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS).
• Building capacities of essential workers in ethnocultural communities by orientating on labour law, employment standards and workers’ rights and creating support networks.
• Support planning and implementation of community-led projects on workers’ rights and occupational health and safety.
• Systems Change and Policy Advocacy: Conduct Community-based Participatory Action Research and collaborate with stakeholders to inform policy advocacy on workers’ rights issues impacting your communities through our Community Advocacy Team.

Publications

Workers English Support Kit, 2022

Workers Resource Kit,2022, Amharic Translation,  Spanish Translation, Tagalog Translation, Vietnamese Translation, Tigrinya Translation

Contact

Paban Adhikary: Paban.Adhikary@actiondignity.org

Funders