Immigrant Workers Rights

In 2001, with a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, the Institute for Labor Studies, in collaboration with Progresso Latino, CHisPA and the Rhode Island Coalition for Immigrants & Refugees developed a public education and organizing campaign to empower immigrant workers to achieve justice in the workplace.

The mission of the Immigrant Workers Rights Project is to strengthen legal labor protections for low-income immigrant workers. The main goal is to educate and empower workers to access labor protections by providing information about workplace laws, including, but not limited to, workers’ compensation and health and safety on the job.

The Immigrant Workers Rights Project educates immigrants through the Workers’ Rights Hotline, education programs, the Workplace Rights Education Project, bilingual radio shows, and a series of multi-lingual workers’ rights workshops for community, religious, labor organizations, immigrant groups and social service agencies. The Project also distributes educational materials in various languages.

Presently, the Immigrant Workers’ Rights Project is conducting a public education campaign to inform immigrant workers about their rights and responsibilities under the Workers’ Compensation system. Since its inception, the Project’s staff has educated more than 2,000 workers through a series of community forums and workshops in partnership with the Immigrants in Action Committee/St. Teresa’s Church and Fuerza Laboral/Power of Workers. The campaign is funded by the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation and the Rhode Island Department of Labor & Training Workers’ Compensation Division.

For more information about the Immigrant Workers Rights Project or to request a speaker no workers’ rights, please call Carolina Bernal at 401-463-9900.

info@rilaborinstitute.org | ph. 401-463-9900 | fx. 401-463-8190
99 Bald Hill Road, Suite 3, Cranston, RI 02920

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