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WNY Worker Center

The WNY Worker Center is a collaborative project of WNYCOSH for workers, especially low-
wage workersimmigrant, refugee and native-born, to learn about their rights and organize fellow
workers to improve workplace conditions.

Education: The Worker Center provides workers with tools and information they need to protect
their health and defend their rights on the job.

Monthly Worker Clinics educate workers about rights and offer support.
Free worker rights/health and safety workshops to introduce workers to their rights and to ways
they can defend themselves against abuse.
Legal resources help worker center members achieve legal justice, using WNYCOSHs network
of private lawyers and legal organizations.
Advocacy:

The WNY Worker Center has been focusing on the exploitive practices of Temporary Agencies.
Working in partnership with Open Buffalo, the Worker Center will lead a policy campaign to
improve working conditions for low-wage, contingent workers in Buffalo and NY state.
Worker Leadership and Organizing Support:
The Worker Center supports workers efforts to take action to improve working conditions by
bringing together their co-workers and going through step by step to develop an action plan with
support from labor unions, community groups, health professionals, and attorneys. The Worker
Center legal committee and organizer have met at the WASH project (a community laundry-mat
and community center on the west side of the city of Buffalo that is run by a Burmese community
leader), monthly to speak with workers who have been facing serious wage-theft, and
discrimination in the restaurant sector, with the community leader translating.

The Worker Center has also partnered with PUSH Buffalo to hold drop-in hours to discuss
workplace issues with a Worker Center organizer and lawyer twice a month:

First Thursday of the month at 271 Grant Street from 3-6pm
&
Third Thursday of the month at 460 Massachusetts Ave from 3-6pm

Weve created the WORKER text line to allow you to confidentially report a workplace concern,
or request assistance and information on various worker's rights laws, campaigns and more.

To anonymously report a problem, or to request information you can text the word WORKER to
877-877.