All along Flatbush Avenue, car- wash workers and college students and hospital administrators offered water, chairs, bathrooms.
Under Trumka, labor has sought to extend its power by alliances, cooperating with African-American groups, immigrant groups, environmental groups and others as well as car wash workers and day laborers seeking to organizers.
But a source familiar with the agreement said on Wednesday that the Sixth Avenue Car Wash workers had already lodged several labor complaints against their employers before the operation was sold in June.
No wonder folks are trying to seek justice for car wash workers in the Car Wash Mecca of Los Angeles.
Car wash workers have complained that they are not given gloves or goggles to clean tire rims with acid.
Some, she said, such as car wash workers, simply don't get paid at all, relying solely on tips.
Car wash workers on the West Coast that couldn't even get protective clubs to keep their skin from being burned... taxicab workers in New York City... we're experimenting with different types of workers, to help workers.
Among them were day laborers, car wash workers, immigrant mothers and a group of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without their parents and helped start a soccer league in the Bronx.
Yet the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers, in partnership with community and immigrant advocacy groups, have used grassroots advocacy and campaigning to move the city's thousands of car wash workers into the ranks of the labor movement.
This deal hurts those men and women -- waiters, waitresses, car wash workers, grocery store cashiers and airport security guards -- who already struggle to feed and clothe themselves and their families.
