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Nik Theodore, Beth Gutelius, Ana Luz Gonzalez

This report presents a scan of California’s worker center ecosystem to assess key strategies, identify challenges and opportunities, and offer recommendations for strengthening the capacity of this vital workers’ rights infrastructure. The report provides one of the most clear and detailed reads into the theory of change of worker centers, that while drawn from its analysis of CA based worker centers, has ample applicability beyond.

Janice Fine

This research analyses the ways in which in order for strategic enforcement to fulfill its promise, workers, worker organizations, and high-road firms must play a central role in government labor standards enforcement efforts. The report showcases early leaders in the co-production of enforcement and details core design principles that underpin this growing and successful trend.

Victor Narro, Saba Waheed, and Jassmin Poyaoan

This report analyzes sixteen local affiliations of worker center to CLCs that took place throughout the country after the launch of the AFL-CIO’s National Worker Center Partnership in 2006. It documents, different models of affiliation and the challenges, opportunities, successes, and areas for improvement that worker centers and CLCs encountered during the affiliation process.