Healing into Power: An Approach for Confronting Workplace Sexual Violence

Since its emergence in the early 1990s, the Justice for Janitors campaign has held a place of prominence in the annals of the U.S. labor movement, helping to debunk the false notion that new immigrants working in structurally precarious conditions are “unorganizable.”[1] In 2015, however, leaders at...

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Published inNew labor forum Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 42 - 52
Main Authors Pinto, Sanjay, West, Zoë, Wagner, KC
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.05.2021
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Immigrants
Janitors
Labor movements
Sexual harassment
Workers
Workplace violence
sexual violence
immigrant workers
working class
equality
women workers
labor
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Summary:Since its emergence in the early 1990s, the Justice for Janitors campaign has held a place of prominence in the annals of the U.S. labor movement, helping to debunk the false notion that new immigrants working in structurally precarious conditions are “unorganizable.”[1] In 2015, however, leaders at SEIU-United Service Workers West (USWW), where the campaign started, recognized that the union had yet to put its collective power and resources toward confronting one of the most serious issues facing members: sexual harassment and violence. Based on research conducted between 2018 and 2020,[2] we seek to capture how SEIU-USWW joined in coalition with other organizations to take on this problem, fostering survivor and worker leadership through a healing-centered promotora model of peer education.[3]
ISSN:1095-7960
1557-2978
DOI:10.1177/10957960211007494