OUR WORK

Community members and workers founded the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) as a workers’ rights and racial justice response to Hurricane Katrina. Against the backdrop of a political economy that pitted communities of color against each other, a group of Black and Immigrant workers came together from public housing developments, FEMA trailer parks, day labor corners, and labor camps to build a new freedom movement that was multi-racial; committed to racial, gender, and immigrant justice; and dedicated to building power at the intersection of race and the economy. 

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Over a decade later, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice continues to be a vehicle for Black, Brown, and Immigrant workers to build grassroots campaigns with a local and national impact. Today, we are a multi-racial, membership-based organization dedicated to building the power and participation of Black, Brown, and Immigrant workers to expand democracy and transform the economy. We organize directly impacted people and couple their courage and knowledge with strategic organizing and communications work to build campaigns that advance racial justice, Immigrant rights, and a fair economy. Our work also includes legal and policy advocacy focusing on cutting-edge strategies to promote a civil, labor, and human rights agenda, leadership skills training, and workers’ rights education and activism.