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The Northwest Arkansas Workers’ Justice Center is a non-profit that assists the least empowered residents of our state: low wage workers. Through advocacy organizing and workers education, we seek to help workers help themselves in obtaining a safe workplace and a fair wage. Practically all of the workers with whom we assist are below the federal poverty line.
The mission of the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center (NWAWJC) is to improve conditions of employment for low-wage workers in northwest Arkansas by educating, organizing, and mobilizing them, and calling on people of faith and the wider region to publicly support the workers' efforts.
The center operates with the following principles:
- Organizing is the most effective way to address workplace problems. Most workplace problems are faced by many workers and are best solved with the involvement of many workers.
- Workers must control the decisions affecting their lives. Advocates, attorneys, pastors, and friends can help with information and support, but workers must be actively involved in making their own decisions.
- Challenging unjust systems often involves risks. Some workers can take the risks. Others cannot. All workers' decisions will be respected.
- All workers are welcome at the center regardless of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, or citizenship status.
- All people with be treated with respect and dignity.
- All those with the Workers' Center will be encouraged to advocate for just public policies on immigration and workplace issues.
The Board of Directors is composed by inter-religious members who support the rights of workers. Our members include lawyers, religious leaders, community leaders, students, teachers, and workers.
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