Students will serve as promotor@s who support local low-wage workers who have experienced wage theft and other abuses on the job. Students will interview workers at WDP's weekly worker meetings, provide information about administrative remedies and procedures, assist in the investigation of potential administrative claims, and assist workers with the preparation of documents for claims.
Organization
Workers Defense Project
WDP is a membership-based organization that empowers low-income workers to achieve fair employment through education, direct services, organizing, and strategic partnerships. WDP is one of the most established worker centers in the South and part of a national movement of organizations that seek to provide low-wage workers with the resources they need to improve their working and living conditions.
Project Details
- Website
- http://www.workersdefense.org
- Project Start Date
September 2015; students must commit to attend at least 3 WDP worker meetings per month during September-November; worker meetings are held every Tuesday night from 6pm-9:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 35, including training
- Training
- A 3.5 hour training will be held Saturday, September 5, 11am-2:30pm at 5604 Manor Road
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/intake; investigation, document preparation; community education/outreach
- Project location
- 5604 Manor Road
- Address
- 5604 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78723
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 4
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Student volunteers must be proficient in English and Spanish
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest and language skills to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu