Pomona Economic Opportunity Center

Providing employment and services for day laborers

Every morning at dawn, you will find day laborers looking for work at various street corners throughout the Inland Valley.  For the past fifteen years, the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (PEOC) has operated the Pomona Day Labor Center, the only worker center of its kind in our region.  The PEOC not only provides a safe place for workers and their potential employers to meet up and negotiate a day’s work, it also organizes the day laborers so that they are active leaders in their own communities who take on issues important to day laborers and all immigrant workers.

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Alejandro Cano: Pomona Peregrinaje en Honor a Cesar Chavez

peregrinaje en honor de Cesar ChavezArticulo por Alejandro Cano: Una Marcha que incluyo participantes de las diversas comunidades en la region! Gracias Alejandro y La Prensa por incluir lo positivo que nuestros jovenes, padres y madres, maestros y maestras, y organisaciones de base — estan desarollando — y estan organisando – en nuestras comunidades.

An article by Alejandro Cano:  A march that included participants from our diverse communities in the region!  Thank you Alejandro and La Prensa for including the positive work that our young people, parents, and community-based organizations are developing – and organizing — in our communities.

http://www.laprensaenlinea.com/noticias/noticias-historias/20130415-pomona-peregrinaje-en-honor-a-cesar-chavez.ece?ssimg=971517#ssStory971520

Help Needed on Language Access in Health Care Delivery

The Latino and Latina Roundtable is being asked to help in identifying people that have been affected in the delivery health care due to language barriers and miscommunication (see the message below).  If you can help in this effort, please contact Matthew A. Maldonado, AFSCME 3930, at 1-619-206-4898 or Yvonne Olivares-Maldonado at yolivares@udwa.org

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