In response to COVID-19, the We Rise cooperative launched We Rise Cares, a new initiative that focuses on providing essential services to their community during crisis. We Rise’s trainers make outreach calls, provide coaching, organize peer support circles, and distribute education materials in local languages.

In response to the Governor’s Pause Order on March 20th, BSRC has fully transitioned to remote operations. To engage current and prospective job seekers, BSRC has hosted more than 25 virtual events and webinars on a range of topics including, “Navigating your Finances during COVID,” “Managing your Job Search in a Tight Market,” and “Keeping Dreams Alive during Coronavirus.”

New York Communities for Change works with CWE’s Worker Service Centers (WSC) to provide ESL classes twice a week across 6 different locations in Brooklyn and the Bronx. During the COVID-19 shutdown, NYCC has shifted to respond to the needs of its students and communities they serve.

Por varios meses, en CWE hemos trabajado conjuntamente con el Consejo Central del Trabajo y organizaciones comunitarias aliadas y sindicatos en CWE-CLC Workers Count2020, para informar y alentar a las y los trabajadores de Nueva York para participar en el censo. Ahora que el censo está en marcha, el equipo de promotores de CWE, esperaban salir a las calles para organizarse para un conteo completo, pero el brote de coronavirus ha cambiado drásticamente esos planes.

For months, CWE has been partnering with the Central Labor Council and allied community organizations and unions in CWE-CLC Workers Count2020, to prepare New York workers to take part in the census. Now that the census is underway, CWE census outreach workers had expected to hit the streets to organize for a complete count, but the coronavirus outbreak has upended those plans.

In less than a month, the census will launch online -- and Consortium for Worker Education organizers are in the streets making sure New Yorkers get counted. The initiative, CWE-CLC Workers Count2020, is a partnership between CWE and the New York City Central Labor Council (CLC).

A menos de un mes, de que el censo sea en línea, y los de Consortium for Worker Education están en las calles asegurándose de que las y los neoyorquinos se hagan contar. La iniciativa, CWE-CLC LaborCount2020, es un esfuerzo conjunto entre CWE y New York City Central Labor Council (CLC).

“Funding for education, food stamps, public housing, and transportation are on the line,” says Darly Corniel, Education Director at the Consortium for Worker Education. “We are here. It is important that we are counted.”