The Community-Labor-Environmental Action Network was created to educate the public and build support for the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee, or CWOC. CLEAN is a diverse coalition of labor, immigrant rights, religious, environmental, and community organizations.
Community Allies and Solidarity Work
The CLEAN campaign is a radical departure from that approach. It includes the community as a strategic partner. Specifically, the campaign is directed by a Steering Committee (composed of representatives of USW, the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, a worker center (Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, MCTF) and the AFL-CIO) and a Community Advisory Board (CAB).
The CAB is made up of many of the organizations that advocate for immigrant workers in Los Angeles, including: Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), the Korea-town Immigrant Worker Association (KIWA), Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur the California (IDEPSCA), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH), Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), Enlace and the Wage Justice Center. The CAB meets at least once a month to provide strategic feedback and advice to the campaign in place.
The campaign is also experimenting with new kinds of community partnerships. For example, the campaign has partnered with St. John’s Well Child and Family Center to secure improved access to health care for carwash workers and their families, and for low-income communities in general. St. John’s provides free and expedited health care services to carwash workers and their families, which is significant because carwash workers use toxic chemicals on a daily basis in their workplaces.
CLEAN members include:
Community Groups
- American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU)
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services
- Bus Riders Union
- Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
- Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE)
- Coalition for Clean Air
- Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
- Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas (COFEM)
- Enlace
- Homies Unidos
- Inner City Law Center
- Jewish Labor Committee
- Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA)
- Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA)
- Latina/o Roundtable
- Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
- Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance
- Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund (MCTF)
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
- National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
- National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
- National Lawyers Guild
- Pilipino Workers’ Center
- Pomona Economic Opportunity Center Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA)
- SCOPE/ AGENDA
- Silver Lake Hollywood Echo Park Metropolitan Alliance (SHEPMA)
- Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (SoCal COSH)
- The Strategy Center
- UCLA Labor Center
- Wage Justice Center
- Worksafe
Unions
- Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1704 ATU Local 192
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2291
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 206
- AFCSME District 36
- AFSCME Local 2712
- AFSCME Local 2428
- AFSCME Local 575
- AFSCME Local 685
- AFSCME Local 829
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT) 2121
- AFT Local 326, Jefferson Elementary Federation of Teachers
- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists-LA Local
- American Postal Workers Union (APWU) of California
- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Local 125
- Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda
- California Conference of Machinists
- California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
- California Nurses Association
- Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 9000
- CWA Local 9412
- CWA Local 9415
- CWA Local 9421
- CWA Local 9510
- CWA Local 9575
- CWA Local 95783
- Costume Designers Guild
- International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (IronWorkers) Local 416
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local Lodge 1414
- IAM Local Lodge 1484
- IAM Local Lodge 1546
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE)
- IATSE Local 33
- IATSE Local 44
- IATSE Local 705, Motion Picture Costumers
- IATSE Local 800 Art Directors Guild
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 441
- IBEW Local 47
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Local 396
- Teamsters Joint Council 42
- IBT Local 986
- International Cinematographer’s Guild
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Workers (IFPTE) Local 20, Engineers and Scientists of California
- IFPTE Local 21
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 13, Allied Division
- ILWU Local 6
- ILWU Local 10
- ILWU Southern California District Council
- Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), San Gabriel Valley (SGV), Inland Empire (IE), AFL-CIO
- Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 300
- LIUNA Local 652
- LIUNA Local 724, Studio Utility Employees
- Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Los Angeles-Orange County Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO
- Napa Solano Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- Pride At Work, AFL-CIO
- Sailors Union of the Pacific
- San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- San Mateo County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000
- SEIU Local 1983, California Faculty Association
- SEIU Local 721
- SEIU Local 99
- United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1167
- UFCW Local 1428
- UFCW Local 1442
- UFCW Local 5
- UFCW Local 770
- UNITE HERE Local 11
- UNITE HERE Local 2
- UNITE HERE Local 2850
- UNITE HERE Local 30
- United Auto Workers Local 2865
- United Domestic Workers of America/ AFSCME
- United Nurses Association of California (UNAC)/ Union of Health Care Professionals (UHCP), AFSCME
- United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)/ AFT Local 1021
- United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers (Roofers) Local 36
- United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial Service Workers International Union (USW)
- USW District 12
- USW Local 675
- USW Local 8599
- Worker’s United, Western States
- Writers Guild of America West
