Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW)
The Worker Center Bar: Lawyering in Support of Low-Wage Worker Movement
Increase legal resources and support for workers in low-wage industries throughout the country.
Posted August 8, 2024
Background & Context
Grassroots Law and Organizing for Workers (GLOW) is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through deep partnerships with worker centers and other base-building organizations.
GLOW seeks to support the movement for economic, racial and gender justice by building a base of experienced and value-aligned movement lawyers throughout the country; partnering with worker centers to implement hybrid legal and organizing strategies that build worker power; leading and coordinating strategic litigation; and providing legal analysis on legislative policies.
GLOW is currently looking for just-minded attorneys to work with us in supporting low-wage workers across the country. We are asking you to join GLOW's Worker Center Bar to provide value-aligned legal resources to worker organizations. The Worker Center Bar is comprised of experienced litigators, new lawyers, law students, and legal workers who use a variety of strategies including popular education legal trainings, strategic research, legislative and labor agency advocacy, and litigation to embolden and defend worker organizations. If you are a lawyer and you are interested in joining GLOW's Worker Center Bar, please sign up.
Immediate Problem
The immense and urgent need for quality legal information and resources for low-wage workers and their families who are facing unemployment, unsafe working conditions, poverty wages, wage theft, discrimination, sexual harassment, eviction and more.
Work & Deliverables
Volunteers may be asked to:
- Accept cases from impacted workers
- Participate in Know Your rights workshops or review materials for Know Your rights workshops to educate workers about their rights
- Review and provide feedback on intakes conducted with workers in low-wage industries
- Research legal resources available to workers who contact GLOW or our partners
- Provide support on workplace justice campaigns
- Provide support to Pro-Worker policy campaigns
- Participate in virtual or in-person legal clinics
- Help GLOW build a base of lawyers accessible to worker organizations
- Conduct legal research for legal & advocacy efforts
- Help raise funds to support worker advocacy efforts
- Mentor new lawyers, law students, or legal workers
Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW)
Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW) was formerly known as the National Legal Advocacy Network. GLOW is a legal non-profit organization that believes in shifting the balance of power towards greater equity in our economy and society through organizing, empowering systematically marginalized people and challenging entrenched racial discrimination, sexual harassment and exploitative workplace practices and predatory business schemes. GLOW is dedicated to leveraging legal resources to enhance the capacity and sustainability of the low-wage worker movement through community focused lawyering, worker center support, and strategic litigation.
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Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW)
Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW) was formerly known as the National Legal Advocacy Network. GLOW is a legal non-profit organization that believes in shifting the balance of power towards greater equity in our economy and society through organizing, empowering systematically marginalized people and challenging entrenched racial discrimination, sexual harassment and exploitative workplace practices and predatory business schemes. GLOW is dedicated to leveraging legal resources to enhance the capacity and sustainability of the low-wage worker movement through community focused lawyering, worker center support, and strategic litigation.