The Other Immigrants/

Las Otras Inmigrantes

Overview of STITCH Training for Immigrant Workers in the United States
In 2006 and 2007, STITCH designed and launched a program to bring to the forefront the issue of women Latina workers in the United States. Based upon a model of popular education and participatory program development, STITCH began this program by interviewing a number of immigrant women workers around the country to ask them what they felt the labor movement should do to support them in their fight for economic justice.

From this initial investment, STITCH has developed a program to provide training for immigrant women on their rights and strategies for increased leadership at work and in their unions, directly works to break down divisions between women of color within the labor movement and educates and informs non-immigrant activists and organizers in the labor movement.

Introduction to Project (Spanish/English)

• History of STITCH's work in Central America and Our Methodology
• Facts and context about Immigration to and in the United States

Building Leadership in Latina Workers (Spanish)   

Targeted to Latina Workers who are Not in Unions

•  Globalization: What is it? How does it impact our lives?
• Our Identity as Women Leaders : Understanding the challenges faced by Latinas, women, and immigrants and how to overcome them to be leaders
  

Targeted to Latina Union Leaders and Workers

• Globalization: What is it? How does it impact our lives?
• Our Identity as Women Leaders : Understanding the challenges faced by Latinas, women, and immigrants and how to overcome them and to be leaders
• New Vision of Unionism : Understanding how to become a true force in your union and to create a more diverse union
• Learned Oppression : Understanding how to challenge sexism and racism to become leaders in our unions and at work

Building a More Diverse Labor Movement (English)

Targeted to Non-Immigrant Union Women   

• Our Identity as Women Leaders : Understanding how sexism holds us all back
• Learned Oppression : Learning about the oppression women face, specifically women of color and how we reproduce those patterns with others
•      Globalization: How does globalization impact all workers?
• New Vision of Unionism : Understanding how to be come a true force in your union and to create a more diverse union
• Immigration: Understanding the forces behind immigration and how this issue is being used as a wedge issue to hurt all workers.

Women of Color/Black Brown

• Learned Oppression : Learning about oppression women face, specifically women of color face and how we reproduce those patterns with others
• Other trainings to be developed

For more information or to discuss working with STITCH on a training in your community or union, contact Cassandra Baker at cbaker@stitchonline.org