Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)

What we do at CTUL:

We fight for a world without worker exploitation. At CTUL we believe in the dignity of all work and in the leadership potential of all people. Our members make up our Board and lead our movement powerfully. Our work is movement building work.

As we prepare for the impact of the incoming Presidential administration, we know to invigorate a progressive, multiracial democracy, we need to meet workers in the truth of their lived experience, and invite them into solidarity across lines of difference. CTUL members know how to do this work. 

A donation to Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (the Center for Workers United in Struggle) supports our Downtown Campaign with low-wage workers in Downtown Minneapolis and our Construction campaign (VIDEO below) calling on developers with multiple reports of egregious labor practices to sign onto better standards for workers. As always CTUL prioritizes Know Your Rights outreach - equipping more low-wage workers with the knowledge and confidence to make change in their own workplaces as well as at the systemic level. 

Make your donation a sustaining donation - we know movement building and growing worker power is longterm work. Giving monthly strengthens our work into the future.

Your contribution (of any amount) will strengthen our organizing, direct outreach, and power building work with low-wage workers of color.

Through CTUL, workers have recovered more than $4 million in stolen wages since 2008 and workers have won big with essential worker pay, Earned Sick and Safe time, the Construction Worker Wage Protection Act, and a higher minimum wage in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. 

Construction Campaign Highlight:

In Spring 2024 CTUL organized in a powerful week of action in solidarity with many partner organizations. Listen to our members talk about their experiences of exploitation and what they are doing to take a stand.

CTUL in the News

We are calling on developers that rely on non-union construction labor to join the Building Dignity and Respect Program (BDR).  Hope Community and Alliance Housing signed onto BDR! We are so excited to celebrate this win: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/10/09/advocacy-group-hails-housing-developers-commitments-to-worker-protections. The Building Dignity and Respect Council (BDC) is an enforcement council ready to hold developers accountable to fair labor practices. 

 Two and a half years ago, the Minneapolis Mayor and City Council committed to moving a Labor Standards Board ordinance (brief explanation of LSB). After significant push back from the restaurant and retail industries, the ordinance is finally moving forward with a vote expected in early November, read more here: https://workdaymagazine.org/minnesota-labor-is-reviving-a-progressive-era-tool-for-improving-working-conditions/

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