The WNYCOSH Worker Center serves workers, especially low-wage workers, immigrant, refugee, temp. workers, and native-born, and helps them learn about their rights and organize fellow workers to improve workplace conditions. The ultimate goal of the WNYCOSH Worker Center is to create a programmatic space to foster an informed, engaged membership advocating for positive change in their workplaces and throughout WNY. Worker Center components include Outreach, Services, Education and Advocacy.
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The WNYCOSH Worker Center offers workers’ rights training at your site or ours in a variety of languages. Trainings include information on wages and hours; workplace safety and health; and industry specific training, as well as your rights to advocate for a safer and fairer workplace.
The WNYCOSH Worker Center Free Legal Clinic offers scheduled and ad hoc legal clinics that offer workers the opportunity to discuss workplace issues for guidance and other forms of assistance.
Is there an issue in your workplace that affects many workers that can best be addressed by working together? The WNYCOSH Worker Center can offer you the support and resources to help you address your issues in a constructive, collective way.