Jornaleros and Jornaleras Support Committee
The San Diego Day Laborers and Household Workers Association
depends greatly on the work of volunteers. Day Laborers have many needs
and welcome your support. If you are interested in becoming a member of
our support committee, please contact us:
La Asociacion de Jornaleros y Trabjadoras de Casa de San Diego
(San Diego Day Laborers and Household Workers of San Diego)
c/o 1035 East Vista Way, #135
Vista, CA 929084
(760) 224-3872 (619) 270-6782 (Jornaleros)
(760) 658-1985 (Trabajadoras de Casa)
www.myasjd.org
Projects and Action Alerts:
TRAFFIC CHECKPOINTS: The AJSD is helping in the campaign to stop traffic checkpoints in North San Diego County. Local police departments and towing companies bring in millions of dollars in revenue from undocumented immigrants who don't have access to drivers licenses. Confiscating their cars causes extreme suffering among immigrant families.
La Asociación de Jornaleros de San Diego (AJSD) has undertaken several new projects in recent months: A job cooperative to stimulate jobs for our members; A class in masonry (albañilería) in Vista; a joint venture with the Employee Rights Center in San Diego called Operación Sueldo Robado (Operation Wage Theft) to recuperate wages stolen by unscrupulous employers; and a course in basic human rights training, to inform workers about their rights and how to interact with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
www.myasjd.org
Projects and Action Alerts:
Let's Opt Out of "Safe Communities" (S-Comm)!
PABLO ALVARADO, director of the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), speaks at a recent Los Angeles rally against S-Comm and Sheriff Lee Baca who supports the flawed policy..
The San Diego Day and Household Workers Association is committed
to overturning laws and policies that are harmful to day and household workers and other immigrant workers. The U.S. Department of Home Security's "Safe Communities" program, also known as "S-Comm" was designed to deport undocumented criminals, but has been abused to include thousands of law abiding immigrants whose only "crime" is to be undocumented. For this reason S-Comm has cast a pall of fear in immigrant communities and hindered the work of law enforcement. If immigrants are afraid to report crimes, then our whole system breaks down.
This is why several law enforcment groups, as well as cities and states (most recently New York and Illinois) have opted out of the program whichwas intended from the beginning to be purely voluntary.
But many law enforcement agencies, including thje San Diego and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depts are sticking with this failed, flawed and harmful program. Recently a group of Los Angeles area activists protested Sheriff Lee Baca's pro-S-Comm policies chastised him for maintaining that
undocumented immigrants "have no rights."
"Sheriff Lee Baca needs to read the Constitution of the United States," said Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Labor Organizing Network, based in Los Angeles. "S-Comm is bad policy. Send it backto DHS. Our communities need protection, not deportation."
Join the fight against S-Comm!
Trabajdoras De Casa / Household Workers
For the next three months the household workers collective within the San Diego Day Laborers and Household Workers Association,in partnership with the Data Center, University of Illinois in Chicago, and National Domestic Workers Alliance, will be participating in the first ever national survey on the conditions of household workers in the United States. Household workers are women who clean houses, care for children, adults or the elderly. Many other organizations throughout the country are also contributing to the survey work of interviewing household workers in their area from June 10th to September 10th, 2011. The survey will support the passage of laws and protections such as the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It will also document,on a larger scale, the struggle of household workers in this country. In San Diego there are Asian, White, Black, and a majority of immigrant Latina household workers.
Por los proximos tres meses el colectivo de trabajadoras de casa dentro de la Asociacion de jornaleros y Trabajadoras de Casa, en colaboracion con el Centro de Datos, la Universidad de Illlinois en Chicago, y la Alianza Nacional de Trabajadoras de Casa,estara participando en la primera encuesta nacional para analizar las condiciones de trabajo de trabajadoras de casa en los Estados Unidos. Trabajadoras de casa son mujeres que se ganan la vida limpiando casas, cuidando ninos, adultos y ancianos. Muchas otras organizaciones en diferentes regiones del pais tambien estaran contribuyendo al trabajao de entrevistar a trabajadoras de casa en su area entre el 10 de Junio y 10 de Septiembre del 2011. La encuesta va ayudar a pasarleyes y protecciones, tal como la Carta de Derechos para Trabajadoras de Casa de California. Tambien la encuesta va a documentar, en una manera mas extensiva, la lucha de trabajadoras de casa en este pais. En San Diego existen trabajadoras de casa Asiaticas, Negras, Blancas, y la mayoria son inmigrantes Latinas.
Miguel Marquina of the Employee Rights
Center in San Diego helps day laborer Omar
Ventura Chiu with a wage theft case. The AJSD works in a close partnership with the Employee Rights Center
of San
Diego.
RECOVERING WAGES: Jorge Ruiz, ASJD organizer, gives Eduardo
Ruiz $350 in cash the two men recovered from an Oceanside employer. Worker committees can be very
effective in getting payments from reluctant employers. Going to court takes time
and is not always successful.
PROJECT MEXICO students from Loyola
University in Baltimore
visit day laborers in Encinitas,
Calif. Loyola students study border issues each year
and spend 10 days visiting border programs.
Getting to know day laborers was the highlight of this year’s trip, they
said.
SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE
(F4C) program director Andrea Rocha with Frente Indigena leaders Juan and Clara
Ramon. The F4C is the chief funder for the AJSD and strongly backs worker
rights in San Diego
County.
RAISING HELL: The AJSD joins other activists in protesting Rep. Brian Bilbray (Rep. Solana Beach). Bilbray said you can tell undocumented people by the shoes they wear. Demonstrators delivered several boxes of shoes to Bilbray’s office. The AJSD believes in direct aid, but also direct action for social change.
Sean Crotty (right), doctoral candidate in geography, talks with a Vista
day laborer about his life and work. Crotty has been studying day laborers in San Diego county for the past year.
AJSD organizer Raul Magana gives a heat prevention workshop to day
laborers at a Vista
day labor site. Heat exhaustion is a common problem for day laborers
throughout Californa.
Political
education and activism are a priority for AJSD members. That’s why we
vigorously protested Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s recent visit
to Rancho Bernardo near San Diego (8/10/10).
We are fully committed to fighting his brutal policies toward immigrants and to defeating his state's repressive anti-immigrant legislation. An injury to one is an injury to all.
Civic
engagement: In the Spring of 2010, a
team of six AJSD members helped promote the 2010 census. Our team visited homes,
supermarkets and swap meets, encouraging our Spanish speaking brothers and
sisters to register for the census in order to
access government funs to improve our schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
Here AJSD
member Raul Magana distributes census
literature at the Oceanside swap meet.
NIDYA RAMIREZ , (left) who is organizing domestic workers, addresses a
rally at Rancho Bernardo near San Diego. BEATRIZ GONZALES (right) makes
a point at a meeting of the Sunshine Workers Cooperative. Domestic
workers in North San Diego County are organizing to generate employment,
improve their wages, and defend their rights.
TRAFFIC CHECKPOINTS: The AJSD is helping in the campaign to stop traffic checkpoints in North San Diego County. Local police departments and towing companies bring in millions of dollars in revenue from undocumented immigrants who don't have access to drivers licenses. Confiscating their cars causes extreme suffering among immigrant families.
La Asociación de Jornaleros de San Diego (AJSD) has undertaken several new projects in recent months: A job cooperative to stimulate jobs for our members; A class in masonry (albañilería) in Vista; a joint venture with the Employee Rights Center in San Diego called Operación Sueldo Robado (Operation Wage Theft) to recuperate wages stolen by unscrupulous employers; and a course in basic human rights training, to inform workers about their rights and how to interact with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.