National Day Laborer Organizing Network
The National Day Laborer Organizing network founded in 2001 is an alliance of community based organizations and worker centers dedicated to improving the lives of day laborers.

Day laborer organizing began in the mid-1980s with early efforts to educate workers about their civil liberties and workplace protections. This work evolved to include the prevention of wage and hour violations, and advocacy on behalf of day laborers with police and other community stakeholders. In the late 1980s, the first day worker centers were established while the organizations continued to defend day laborers’ rights to seek employment in public right-of ways. In the mid-1990s, day laborer leaders and organizers in various parts of the country began sharing effective organizing strategies and leadership development methodologies. They developed a national organizing and advocacy agenda and created NDLON as the national expression of the local struggles of the day laborer community. 

NDLON has enabled experienced and talented day laborer leaders and organizers to undertake ambitious local organizing campaigns, successfully build regional alliances between community groups, and effectively articulate policy concerns in national debates.

NDLON is now composed of 41 member organizations throughout the country working together to create day labor worker centers, strengthen street-corner organizing, protect civil liberties and labor rights, defend day laborers and other immigrant workers from vigilante groups’ attacks and repressive local policy initiatives, and achieve immigration reform with a path to citizenship and political equality.