Economic Justice
Adelante is the only worker center in Alabama. Our members and staff lead the fight for economic justice and work hard to ensure that every person, no matter their job or wage is treated with dignity.
Our work includes:
- Informing workers about their rights through weekly wage theft clinics and “Know Your Rights” trainings.
- Advocating for workers who suffered wage theft and other abuses through mediation, direct action, and legal advocacy.
- Ensuring marginalized workers’ voices are included in local and statewide advocacy campaigns.
- Providing orientation, organizing support, and advocacy to residents of apartment complexes and trailer parks who are taking on abusive landlords and dangerous and unhealthy living conditions.
- We provide trainings to bilingual community members and allies on the principles of language justice and interpretation skills in order to build economic opportunities
- We also rent out our interpretation equipment on a sliding-scale basis to community organizations and interpreters.