Workers Rights Organizer Temp Deliverista Hub (French)

Third Sector New EnglandWorkers Rights Organizer Temp Deliverista Hub (French)US-NY-New YorkJob ID: 2026-2681# of Openings: 1Category: Civil Rights, Social Action, and AdvocacyWorker's Justice ProjectOverviewWorker’s Justice Project (WJP) (workersjustice.org) was founded in 2010 to address the racial and economic injustices that low-wage immigrant workers face in New York City by building collective power to win institutional change.

WJP runs two long-standing worker’s centers in Brooklyn. We promote justice and opportunity for low-wage immigrant workers in New York City by pushing for systematic enforcement and expansion of workplace protections, which include labor and occupational health and safety standards while advocating for industry-specific efforts to improve working conditions. WJP also offers skills-building training to workers in health & safety and industry-specific areas, and we educate immigrant communities about their rights in the workplace and how to exercise those rights.

WJP is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE (www.tsne.org). ResponsibilitiesThis is a temporary position with the possibility of transitioning to regular employee. Eligibility is  based on business need, funding, and good standing within WJP. Additionally, the individual must have been with WJP for at least 6 months to be eligible. WJP will evaluate close to the temporary employment end date. The Workers’ Rights Organizer engages with app delivery workers throughout NYC with a focus on French-, English- and African language speaking immigrant workers.

The position is based out of WJP‘s City Hall Deliverista Hub in Lower Manhattan and may also spend significant time out in the field and at WJP’s other worker centers. The Organizer is part of a team of organizers under WJP’s Los Deliveristas Unidos/Delivery Workers United (LDU) initiative who are working to strengthen and expand WJP’s delivery worker membership, win concrete and transformative workplace campaign victories, and significantly contribute to long-term movement building in New York City and beyond.

The ideal candidate will not only align themselves with WJP’s vision and mission but will have a proven track-record of organizing experience within French-speaking immigrant communities. Essential Functions Deliverista Hub StaffingProvide on-site engagement, information and support to delivery workers at WJP’s City Hall Deliverista Hub five days per week, Monday - Friday Inform app delivery workers about their workplace rights and about WJP’s organizing campaigns to improve working conditions for delivery workers.Identify and help build WJP’s base and develop WJP members through group and one-on-one engagements.

Provide case management assistance to delivery workers related to account deactivations, wage theft, and other labor rights complaints, and assist with follow-up.Provide information about WJP, LDU and the Deliverista Hub to members of the general public that stop by the Hub. Outreach and Base BuildingConduct weekly street outreach and events targeting app delivery workers in all five boroughs of NYC with a focus on French-speaking immigrant workers.

Inform app delivery workers about their workplace rights and about WJP’s organizing campaigns to improve working conditions for delivery workers.Identify and help build WJP’s base and develop WJP members through group and one-on-one engagements. Organize one-on-one meetings with new worker-members identified through outreach and walk-ins;Motivate and obtain commitment from workers, and support workers to take direct action in their workplaces, to file complaints and to educate their co-workers about their rights.Help build a strong base of delivery worker members for LDU by conducting outreach, facilitating participation in events and meetings, and identifying worker-leaders who can connect LDU to new communities of delivery workers.Build effective relationships with potential and current members;Generate leads by exchanging and c