Day laborers are workers of all races who wait on street corners or in other public locations every day, looking for work in every major city in this country. They are predominantly poor, Latin American, immigrant men in search of work to support themselves and their families. They form a valuable and productive workforce, but suffer from severe exploitation and discrimination. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), founded in 2000, is a collaborative between eighteen community-based organizations that organize day laborers in different parts of the country. The mission of the NDLON is to strengthen and expand the work of local day laborer organizing groups, in order to become more effective and strategic in building leadership, advancing low-wage worker and immigrant rights, and develop successful models for organizing immigrant contingent/temporary workers.
NDLON fosters healthy, safer and more humane environments for day laborers to obtain employment and raise their families. In this sense, NDLON advances the human, labor, and civil rights of day workers throughout the United States
