CHIRLA Day Labor Program

Who are the Day Laborers?

Day laborers are honest hardworking persons who solicit employment on a daily, temporary basis.  Usually, they wait for employment on street corners, in parks, or in parking lots adjoin painting, hardware stores like Home Depot or gardening supplied businesses.

CHIRLA Day Labor Program Mission Stamen:

The Day Labor Program aims to facilitate and advance the integration and participation of day laborers in the communities where they live and work with full political, economic, and civil and human rights.

Through our work we seek to build communities where there is peace with justice, tolerance, and equal rights for everyone.  

Components

City mediation and Outreach:

CHIRLA provides Citywide Mediation to day labors Corners, in the City of Los Angeles, there are approximately 125 corners, Home Depots, painting and gardening suppliers where 26,000 day laborers congregate.  This numbers means that the majority of Day Labors in Los Angeles are in the corners, for years this is being the way employers just to hire informal workers in Los Angeles, CHIRLA has develop innovative and effective alternatives to deal with the issues of Day Laborers looking for work at he corners through the use of education dialoged and leadership development.

Day labor Community Job Centers:

Currently there are a total of 14 Day Labor centers in the Los Angeles County; CHIRLA is doing worker and Human rights education and civic rights participation to the North Hollywood and Van Nuys Day Labor Centers.