Los Angeles Worker Center Network

The Los Angeles Worker Center Network (LAWCN) launched in 2017 with a mission to build the power and grow the capacity of local worker centers to organize and advocate for low-wage workers in the Greater Los Angeles region—so that all workers experience worker power, solidarity, visibility, and healthy lives.

Through worker organizing, policy advocacy, capacity building, and services, we build upon over a decade of coordinated activities among the region’s worker centers to improve conditions in key low-wage industries, including the car wash, garment, home care, restaurant, retail, warehouse, and other low-wage sectors.

LAWCN leverages worker centers’ combined strengths, membership base, and industry expertise to sustain and bolster the organizing and leadership of workers, particularly immigrant, refugee, and Black workers, women and LGBTQ+ workers, and other workers of color.