Queridos Amigos/Dear Friends:

2012 is providing new opportunities and challenges. Last year we marked our 30th anniversary as a nonprofit dedicated to helping farm workers, migrant workers and the rural poor improve their economic, social and political conditions. 

Your support helps us continue our work: expanding workers’ rights, strengthening legal remedies, and helping people in marginalized, disenfranchised communities engage effectively in the political process.  

Some highlights of our work include:

Increasing opportunities for state funding to reach communities that lack infrastructure and public transit;

Ensuring that the working poor can exempt from wage garnishment the basic income necessary to support their families, when the debt incurred is medical debt;

Securing over $500,000 for workers subjected to sexual harassment, unsafe working conditions and wage theft and resolving cases for workers fired for exercising their rights;

Sponsoring labor bills, signed by the Governor, that attack wage theft by unscrupulous employers (AB 469), expand minimum wage workers' labor protections (AB 240), and, for the first time in the U.S. history, require Farm Labor Contractors to disclose to farm workers the identity and location of the growers for whom they worked (AB 243); and 

Helping over 1,000 lawful permanent residents begin the process of naturalization, and providing workshops to thousands of California residents on current immigration and benefits laws. 

With your assistance, we can continue protecting rights and improving safety for California’s low-income individuals, families and rural communities.  

CRLA Foundation clients, board or directors and staff thank you for your support!