strategic CAMPAIGNS
We run corporate campaigns to raise standards in the temp industry and legislative campaigns to expand access to good jobs for workers with records.
CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS
Our corporate campaigns focus on winning enforceable, industry-wide standards in Florida’s temp economy. We currently center this work in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Leon Counties, home to more than one in five of Florida’s 880,000 temp workers. Our goal is to secure multi-employer agreements that set common wage and benefit standards, ending the race to the bottom and creating a level playing field for workers and responsible employers.
Breaking the Temp Trap
Florida’s temp economy runs on churn: low pay, unsafe worksites, and constant replacement. We organize workers to confront the companies profiting from the Temp Trap and win enforceable standards across employers.
LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGNS
We advance legislative reforms that raise standards in the temp industry and challenge policies that trap workers with records in unsafe, unstable jobs.
state Campaigns
In Florida, we lead coalitions to defend and expand protections for workers with records, such as stopping corporate rollbacks of worker protections, ending supervision rules that criminalize job loss, and expanding fair-chance hiring and licensing access.
Ending Supervision Policies that Trap Workers
Florida’s state supervision system makes stable employment harder. People on supervision can be punished for losing work, leaving unsafe jobs, or missing a shift due to transportation, childcare, or employer abuse. We advocate to end these coercive supervision rules and ensure workers with records can exercise their labor rights without retaliation.
Florida’s Labor Pool Act
Florida’s Labor Pool Act is one of the only laws in the South that creates basic protections for temp workers. We defend and strengthen it to keep temp agencies from driving down standards for everyone.
federal Campaigns
Nationally, we support reforms that raise the floor for temp work and strengthen pathways into quality jobs for workers with records.
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
In its current form, WOTC subsidizes employers for hiring workers with records into temporary positions. We work with National Employment Law Project (NELP) and others to reform WOTC so public dollars are used for public good.
Restoring Worker Power Act
We are on the Steering Committee of the Temp Worker Advocacy Coalition (TWAC) led by Grassroots Law and Organizing for Workers (GLOW), where we support federal legislation to guarantee equal pay for equal work, limit abusive temp-to-hire fees, and stop employers from using temp workers to weaken strikes.
#EndTheException
We are on the Steering Committee of the #EndTheException Campaign led by Worth Rises, where we advocate for federal legislation to remove the exception to the 13th Amendment that allows forced labor as punishment for a crime.
BUILD WORKER POWER WITH US
Temp worker or worker with a record? Join Beyond the Bars.
Union or community organization? Partner with us.
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