Building a #MeToo Worker-Led Resistance

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Local News

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Local News

The #MeToo and Time’s Up initiatives are propelling a national conversation about workplace sexual violence. While thousands of survivors have come forward, most of the attention has been focused on high-earning survivors in professional workplaces. There has been less visibility around the efforts of low-wage workers to organize their workplaces, even though those in the lowest income bracket are up to 12 times more likely to experience sexual violence than higher earners. In an effort to continue moving the conversation forward to represent low wage workers across industries in Chicago, the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence including: Healing to Action, Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Heartland Alliance, and Domestic Worker Day Laborer Center of Chicago to name a few. The Coalition held a meeting among low wage workers to share stories, learn skills, and develop collective action strategies to combat sexual violence in the workplace. To learn more, visit www.healingtoaction.org.

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Local News

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Local News

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