Community Labor United
Template:TOCnestleft Community Labor United is based in Boston, Massachusetts and is an affiliate of the Apollo Alliance, and is close to Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Mission
The organization's mission is stated on their website:[1]
- "To move strategic campaigns combining the joint power of community-based organizations and labor unions in order to protect and promote the interests of low and middle-income working families in the greater Boston area. Through a program of coalition building, research and policy development, public education and grassroots mobilization, we will move forward policies that promote quality jobs, secure healthcare and affordable housing for all of the Boston area's working people."
Personnel
As at April 12, 2010, the following worked for Community Labor United:[2]
Board of Directors
- Rich Rogers - Chair, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Greater Boston Labor Council
- Lauren Jacobs - Treasurer, Organizing Director, Service Employees International Union Local 615
- Tom Callahan - Clerk, Executive Director, Mass Affordable Housing Alliance
- Kalila Barnett, Executive Director, Alternatives for Community & Environment
- Enid Eckstein, Vice President, 1199 SEIU
- Tom Flynn, Political Director, New England Regional Council of Carpenters
- Warren Pepicelli, Manager/Vice President, New England Joint Board UNITE HERE
- Mimi Ramos, Director, New England United for Justice
Staff
- Lisa Clauson - Co-Director
- Darlene Lombos - Co-Director
- Mary Jo Connelly - Research Director
- Soledad Boyd - Senior Organizer
- Jeremy Shenk - Senior Organizer
- Mike Prokosch - Communications and Training
Affiliated Organizations
Strategy Committee
Strategies are determined with the input of representatives from the following organizations:[2][3]
- Alliance to Develop Power
- Alternatives for Community & Environment
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
- Boston Teachers' Union
- Boston Workers' Alliance
- New England Regional Council of Carpenters
- Chelsea Collaborative
- Chinese Progressive Association
- City Life/Vida Urbana
- Greater Boston Labor Council
- Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance
- New England United for Justice
- Painters & Allied Trades DC 35
- Project RIGHT
- Service Employees International Union Local 615
- 1199 SEIU
- United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445
- UNITE HERE
Green Justice Coalition
The Green Justice Coalition was launched by Community Labor United in Dec. 2008 with the stated purpose of bringing home energy efficiency upgrades and jobs to Boston's low-income communities and communities of color. The following organizations are on the steering committee of the coalition:[4]
- Alternatives for Community & Environment
- Alliance to Develop Power
- New England United for Justice
- Boston Climate Action Network
- Boston Workers’ Alliance
- Chelsea Collaborative
- Chinese Progressive Association
- Clean Water Action
- Coalition Against Poverty/Coalition for Social Justice
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
- Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
- MassCOSH
- Laborers’ New England Regional Organizing Fund
- Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance
- Neighbor to Neighbor
- New England Council of Carpenters
- Painters & Allied Trades DC35
- Project RIGHT
- Utility Workers Union of America Local 369
2011 Boston DSA award
The 2011 Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Awards, sponsored by Boston Democratic Socialists of America, took place June 11, 56 Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain. The reception honored a long-time advocate for low wage workers and community empowerment along with a best-selling author — Rocio Saenz and Matt Taibbi. Co-Chairs were Lisa Clauson, Co-Director of Community Labor United and Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.[5]