Excluded Workers DC

Last year, the people thwarted Mayor Bowser’s attempted robbery of $20 million in FY23 excluded workers funds. This month, excluded workers in DC started receiving their long awaited money! We are excited to see these funds being disbursed! 🎉

But there is still work that remains and plan to bring the same energy to the Fall 2023 council session! 4/4

Overall our first six months were successful, achieving all five of our initial goals and more! 3/4

In January, DC immigrants and immigrant justice organizers came together to create a shared platform of legislative and budget priorities that benefit DC’s immigrant communities — thus the Immigrant Justice Platform (IJP) was born! Read more: bit.ly/ijp-spring23🧵

BCI supports workers in the DC-area to build & maintain worker cooperatives, especially ones led by poor & working class Black and Brown workers, as a strategy for building political & economic power in the DC-area that centers poor & working class Black & Brown communities. 3/3

Worker cooperatives are an example of a solidarity economy institution in which the workers own & control the business collectively. More than half of worker coops in the US today were created to improve low-wage jobs & build wealth in communities most affected by inequality. 2/3

This year you’ve heard a lot about our advocacy work. Today, we want to introduce you to our work with worker cooperatives and the role they play in the solidarity economy! Over the next few months we will be spotlighting the coops we work with so stay turned! 1/3

Help Kahssay renew his street vending license so he can support his family! Venmo or cashapp: @yomictin

Please support if you can - Solomon has been a leader with @DontExcludeMeDC since the start of the pandemic. His leadership has helped win more than $60 million for excluded workers & now he needs support replacing tools for work that were stolen Venmo: @enlalucha

Excluded workers stand in the council chambers as the council votes on whether they commit to using any excess revenue that comes in to support an increase in SNAP benefits and the $20M that was brutally swiped from excluded workers. #NoMeExcluyas

@DC_BCI @ROCDC @domesticworkers @DCJWJ

Today the Coucil is voting on the FY23 Supplemental Budget emergency bill! The Council has yet to keep their promise to excluded workers! If you haven’t already, please email @ChmnMendelson and tell him to not exclude Excluded Workers again: actionnetwork.org/letters/e448d0…

We’re at @ChmnMendelson’s house today to tell him to keep his promise to Excluded Workers and restore the funds that @MayorBower stole! Join us by taking one minute to send a letter to the Mendo and ask him to not exclude excluded workers again: bit.ly/keep-your-prom…

PDF version of graphics: bit.ly/stoptheswipedc

.@councilofdc you are running out of time to keep your promise to excluded workers! We need you to stop Bowser from taking money out of excluded workers’ pockets and restore ALL the funds immediately!

I'm disappointed to see @CMZParker5’s proposal fall short. It pains me that we have not made good on our promise to excluded workers – I will work w/colleagues now til May 30 on finding funds.

The money was allocated by the council last year, but hasn’t been disbursed at all thus far. (Story: dcist.com/story/22/05/25…) I asked @ChmnMendelson about it yesterday, and he was non-committal on whether he could get the money back.

Immigrant workers are outside the Wilson Building this morning asking the D.C. Council to restore the $20 million in financial assistance for excluded workers that @MayorBowser took back in her revised 2023 budget proposal.