We welcome you to TUWU’s Second Quarterly Newsletter La Regeneración.
Building worker power supports the economic security of immigrant workers, benefits their families, and strengthens local economies. Worker power is a fundamental part of a just economy. Compañerismo is the glue that holds us all together in the struggle to build worker power, this is why it is TUWU’s Principle #1.
If you have ever interacted with a member of TUWU or been part one of our events, you might have heard us address each other as “compa,” the gender-neutral word for compañero/a. Forging compañerismo with one another allows us to collaborate and take collective action against labor violations, exploitation, and exclusion. Embodying compańerismo means uplifting not only each other, but workers facing injustice domestically and abroad. Winning is achieved collectively and centered on the needs and voices of excluded immigrant workers, while also upholding a commitment to intersectional struggle alongside Black, trans, women, and workers with disabilities, as well as those from the global south.