The Worker Institute serves as a key convener of academics, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers into a process of generating and disseminating knowledge that improves the lives of workers, transforms the future of work, and advances collective bargaining rights for all workers. A core value of the Institute’s work
is that collective bargaining, workers’ collective representation, and workers’ rights are vital to a fair economy, robust democracy, and a just society.
Based on its mission, the Worker Institute has a long record of engaging in key research and policy innovation for worker centers that represent and advance the rights of workers in precarious work arrangements, gig workers, and workers in precarious immigration status. The Institute has done this work in collaboration with key leaders in the worker economic justice movement such as the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON), Food Chain Workers Alliance, Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC), We Rise, NICE, ALIGN NY, Laundry Workers Center (LWC), Worker’s Justice Project (WJP), Retail Action Project (RAP), Adhikaar, Damayan and many more.
