PROGRESS REPORT 2010-2012 Day Laborers Improve Their Working Conditions Day Laborers in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn have built an important community institution in that it: Provides a safe and healthy space for workers to wait for work, protecting them from the elements and harassment Mandates a minimum wage set by the day laborers themselves. Currently it is $10/hour Increases transparency in the hiring process and provides accountability to employers. Only one case of wage theft was identify this year. This indicates that the Center is an effective tool at combating worker exploitation. Creates a space for dialogue and relationship building between day laborers and the greater Brooklyn community. Facilitates WJP’s organizing and leadership development efforts. B Strengthening The Grassroots Of The Labor Movement Worker’s Justice Project is committed to empower low-wage immigrants through innovative organizing and entrepreneurship approaches to strengthen the right to organize, to achieve socioeconomic justice and build a democratic, and diverse movement of low-wage workers. The community job center brings day laborers together to build collective power to push for systematic change while creating an alternative unionize system that ensure fair wages, workplace safety, and better opportunities to improve their quality of life and of our community. Bay Parkway Community Job Center Making Substantial Economic Contribution to our community! We generated 4,332 jobs, resulting in a total of $ 198,563 in salaries with fair wages and dignify working conditions.