Our Mission
We strive to build the grassroots power of Black workers to promote racial and economic justice in the workplace and throughout our communities. We aim to increase access to quality and living wage jobs; end discrimination in the workplace; redefine the meaning and possibilities of work; and advance a solidarity economy in Baltimore city led by Black workers (whether through unionization, policy reform, survival programs, worker-cooperatives, and/or grassroots issue based campaigns).
Vision
The center aims to increase access to quality and living wage jobs; end discrimination in the workplace; redefine the meaning and possibilities of work; and advance a solidarity economy in Baltimore city led by Black workers (whether through unionization, policy reform, survival programs, worker-cooperatives, and/or grassroots issue based campaigns).
Building a Baltimore Black Worker Center is about building a movement of Black workers to transform ourselves, our city and the current economic, political, and social status quo.
We seek to organize with and as Black workers because Black workers occupy an important and strategic role in our society for disrupting business as usual and developing sustainable, creative, and transformative Black worker-led solutions for a just and equitable Baltimore for all.
“The center is about building Black worker power here in Baltimore, in the workplace and in our community as a whole.”
What We BELIEVE
- Work is central to the liberation of Black people.
- Quality employment for Black people of all ages is fundamental to achieving racial and economic justice.
- Black communities are facing a dual job crisis of unemployment and lack of quality jobs.
- Equity and justice require addressing various forms of oppressions and how they affect Black workers.
- Real change for Black workers will only come from Black workers building power together through organizing, demanding justice, and transforming the current racist, capitalist, and patriarchal systems that govern our world.
- Work and the dignity of work are connected to so many aspects of life, including housing, transportation, education, food, and more.