Unemployed Workers United is a coalition of organizers and organizations who want our government to respond to our current crisis with solutions that will actually allow all of us to survive.
In order to build the largest multiracial working-class coalition in the United States, we'll need to do it together. Get to know Unemployed Workers United's anchor organizations below:
Mijente is a political, digital, and grassroots hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing and movement building. Launched in 2015, Mijente seeks to strengthen and increase the participation of Latinx people in the broader movements for racial, economic, climate and gender justice. @conmijente
The National Black Worker Center Project organizes Black workers to build the power to achieve liberation by dismantling systemic racism and economic exploitation.
People’s Action is a national network of state & local grassroots power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.
United for Respect (UFR) is a multiracial national nonprofit organization fighting for big and bold policy change that improve the lives of people who work in retail.
The Working Families Party is a multiracial grassroots political party fighting for an America for the many, not the few.
Neidi Dominguez
[email protected]
(818) 574-3278
Twitter: @neidid
Neidi Dominguez is the Executive Director Unemployed Workers United (UWU), a movement project to organize precarious and jobless workers. See full bio here
Belén Cid-Garcia
[email protected]
(818) 574-8948
Twitter: @MaBelenC_G
Belén Cid-Garcia is the Director of Operations of Unemployed Workers United, (UWU). Belen was born and raised in a small town in Michoacan, Mexico. See full bio here
José Ignacio Gaona
[email protected]
(818) 254-8528
Twitter: @JoseiGaona
José is the Development Coordinator at Unemployed Workers United, (UWU). Jose is a community advocate and nonprofit professional with focus areas in fundraising, policy, public relations, and board management. See full bio here
Lynn Hứa
[email protected]
(818) 574-5546
Lynn Hứa is the Co-Director of Digital & Distributed Organizing at Unemployed Workers United (UWU), the eldest daughter of Vietnamese refugees, and a movement activist at heart. See full bio here
Anahi Tapia Torres
[email protected]
(818) 208 - 7427
Anahi is the Co-Director of Digital & Distributed Organizing at Unemployed Workers United (UWU). Anahi was born in Mexico raised in the Southside of Chicago. See full bio here
Kim Selig
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Kim Selig is a National Organizer at Unemployed Workers United (UWU). She was raised in a Union household, where she was taught early that workers’ rights were hard-fought and continuously challenged by political and economic opposition. See full bio here
Harinee Suthakar
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Harinee Suthakar (pronouns: she/her) is a national organizer at UWU. She has roots in Chennai, India, grew up in New Jersey and has called Pennsylvania home since 2012. See full bio here
Rey Wences
[email protected]
(818) 275-0445
Reyna (Rey) Wences (pronouns: they/them) was born in Mexico City and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Rey grew up undocumented and became involved in community organizing after graduating high school. See full bio here
Mary Torres Cardona
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Mary Torres Cardona is the graphic designer at Unemployed Workers United. Most recently she was a graphic designer for paid media on the Bernie Sanders campaign. See full bio here