OUR WORK
Congress of Day Laborers/Congreso de Jornaleros
The Day Laborers is an organization of immigrant workers and families founded by the day laborers who helped rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
STAND With Dignity
Stand with Dignity is a grassroots membership organization of African American workers and families dedicated to winning inclusion, opportunity, and racial equity in the New Orleans economy.
Seafood Workers Alliance/Alianza de Trabajadorxs de Marisco y Pescado
The Seafood Workers Alliance is made up of migrant workers organizing to improve conditions in the seafood industry and beyond.
Legal & Policy Advocacy
The NOWCRJ’s Legal and Policy Department is an impact-strategy department serving the campaigns and initiatives anchored by the Workers’ Center.
I spoke out because I wanted to be recognized as a human being.
Hilario Jimenez
Hard Rock developers have contributed nearly $70,000 to Mayor Cantrell and her political action committee
The Lens | By Michael Isaac Stein | January 28, 2020 New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her associated political action committee, Action New Orleans, have collected at least $69,838 in political contributions from the partners of 1031 Canal Devel
28 January, 2020NOWCRJ Calls for Accountability and Action for Hard Rock Collapse Victims
Council Hearings, New Regulations, Return of Deported Whistleblower Among Demands January 24, NEW ORLEANS, LA—The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) issued the following statement today following Wednesday’s exposure of the remai
24 January, 2020Convention Center spent $1.35 million for products made by prison labor over past decade, board member calls for living wage requirement
The Lens | By Michael Isaac Stein | January 21, 2020 In September, the governing board of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center voted against a contract to buy a $183,000 iron fence from Prison Enterprises — a division of the Louisiana Department of
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