Shanta Tucker

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The Los Angeles Black Worker Center (LABWC) is an organization at the forefront of racial justice and worker rights movements in Los Angeles. The LABWC is recognized as a national leader in the effort to address the challenges of the Black jobs crisis of unemployment and underemployment, and the growing inequity in the labor market. We work toward economic justice in low-income communities of color by building power amongst Black workers and their communities to expand access to quality employment and promote public policies and corporate practices for sustainable economic development in South LA neighborhoods. LABWC strategies include a comprehensive approach to leadership development; political education and training; worker organizing; innovative policy advocacy; coalition building; and comprehensive direct action campaigns that integrate strategic research and communications. The Center also provides employment and legal services support.