The members of the Excluded Worker Congress are national networks of organizations that represent a base of workers that are either by law or by practice excluded from the right to organize in the United States.  We are also regional networks and individual organizations in industries where there is no national network.  Every network represents a different industry, sector, or kind of work. We recognize that not every sector is nationally represented and we will strive to increase representation in those sectors.

The nine sectors of the Excluded Workers Congress include domestic workers, farm workers, taxi drivers, restaurant workers, day laborers, guestworkers, workers from Southern right- to-work states, workfare workers and formerly incarcerated workers.

We are a project of the Inter-Alliance Dialogue, an alliance of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Jobs with Justice, National Day Labor Organizing Network, National Domestic Worker Alliance, Pushback Network, and Right to the City Alliance.  The organizations that form our membership are deeply rooted within constituencies that are grounded in the community and workforce. We are each confronting and organizing strategic responses to the critical demands and intersections of contemporary society and are seeking new approaches to building a national grassroots movement connected to international social change movements.

The following alliances and organizations have participated in the Excluded Workers Congress thus far:

American Federation of Government Employees, Local 778

AFL-CIO

Black Workers for Justice

Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco)

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA)

Community Voices Heard

Direct Care Alliance

Food Chain Workers Alliance

Jobs with Justice

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children / All of Us or None

Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance

Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights

National Day Laborer Organizing Network

National Domestic Workers Alliance

New York Taxi Workers Alliance

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United

Southern Human Rights Organizers’ Network

Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania

The Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity

United Campus Workers – CWA