Our Mission
The National LGBTQ Workers Center (NLWC) is a collective made by and for Black and Brown, trans, gender-expansive, queer, sick and disabled workers. We use political education, community support spaces, and organizing, to cultivate worker power, organizational capacity, and collective resilience amongst all LGBTQIA2S workers. We commit to including non unionized workers, sexworkers, informal sector workers, and those who are unemployed or underemployed at all levels of our membership and leadership.
Our Vision
We envision a world in which all LGBTQIA2S people live fulfilling and joyful lives, have rights and protections on the job, economic justice in all areas of their lives including in healthcare, housing and education, and have the power to hold employers accountable when they fail to meet the standards for a healthy, affirming and safe workplaces.
What’s new with the National LGBTQ Workers Center?
Our June 2022 Newsletter details our current campaigns and upcoming changes to NLWC. To read our full letter Click Here. Below, you can find our TL;DR:
A lot has changed in the last few years. The global pandemic has made it even more evident that the economic system we live in does not care about Black, Brown, Poor, and Disabled lives. As the volunteer Advisory Board of the National LGBTQ Workers Center, we believe now is the time to rethink our purpose. What are the new political strategies we need? How big can we dream? Today through August, NLWC will be taking a pause to focus on these questions. We’ll continue with the work we are doing which includes our work with the Sexworkers Access to Fair Employment coalition in New Jersey, supporting the Black Workers Bill of Rights across the country, and running our Workers Rights Hotline in Chicago….
READ ABOUT Our Latest RESEARCH
LGBT People in the Workplace: Demographics, Experiences and Pathways to Equity
Coauthored with the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), our latest research, LGBT People in the Workplace: Demographics, Experiences and Pathways to Equity, details the history, demographics and experiences of LGBT people in the workplace.
In addition to outlining the barriers facing LGBT workers because of prejudice, the brief also examines the added challenges facing workers—lower wages, lack of comprehensive immigration reform, barriers to employment for individuals with a criminal record, a changing economic landscape—and how these challenges also impact LGBT employees.
The report concludes with recommendations for enacting federal- and state- level protections and advancing worker-centered change at the local level.
National Board
Board Aunties
We all have that auntie in our lives who serves as a mentor, challenges us to grow, effortlessly leads by example, and drops in to help when they can. Our Board Aunties bring rich experiences that we lean on from time to time to elevate our work.
