OUR COLLECTIVE POWER,
OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE
OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE
Since 2025, Community Labor United (CLU) has brought unions and community organizations together to fight for the rights of working-class people and communities of color in Greater Boston. When working people stand together, our united voices are stronger than any single person or organization alone. That’s why we focus on building real, lasting power, bringing people together through member-driven organizing and forging deep partnerships between community groups and labor unions.
At CLU, we transform the combined strength of working people and communities of color into a unified voice that people in power can’t ignore.
The Campaigns We’re Organizing
Green Justice Coalition
We unite base-building organizations in communities of color with unions in the building trades, transportation, and other sectors. Together, we stand against low-road corporate exploitation and fight to increase resources for the public good, ensuring every worker and community can thrive.
Care That Works
The child care workforce is powered largely by Black and brown women, whose labor has long been undervalued. Care That Works fights to change that by ensuring providers have the support they need to deliver high-quality care, including flexible and nonstandard hours for working parents.
By centering the lived expertise of both families and providers, Care That Works advances real solutions that strengthen child care and build a more prosperous future for everyone.
The Research that Drives Us
Community Labor United’s research is created with coalition partners, using frontline organizing to shape every step of the process. Our research links environmental justice, good jobs, and the public good across Greater Boston and beyond — turning data into campaigns that drive real change.
Grounded in member experience, our research identifies structural problems and opportunities for long-term campaigns, producing actionable insights, framing reports, and concrete policy demands.
Organizing informs our research. Questions are rooted in the lived experience of low-income communities of color, and as campaigns advance, frontline organizing continues to inform and refine the research agenda. This participatory, coalition-based approach ensures that communities generate and interpret data together and use it to fuel collective action that strengthens neighborhoods and protects constituents.
