About Awood
Awood Center is a worker center that builds the power of East African workers through organizing, education, leadership development, community support, worker assistance, and advocacy to improve working conditions and achieve economic justice.
The Awood Center is a dynamic worker-led organization that creates a culturally and linguistically relevant space to build unity and develop the next generation of leaders in Minnesota’s diverse East African communities.
Awood Center is engaging the community of 100,000 and growing recent immigrants and their families in the Twin-Cities area by educating, organizing, developing leadership and mobilizing to improve the economic and political life of the community and all working people.
We need groups like Awood that are standing up for workers and taking on the fights of equity and justice that are sometimes controversial but are so critical to moving the ball forward.
OUR HISTORY
THE BEGINNING
Awood Center was founded to organize East African workers in Minnesota.
FIRST MAJOR WIN
Organized the first-ever Amazon worker strike in the United States.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Expanded programs to include community advocacy and leadership training.
LEGISLATIVE IMPACT
Successfully lobbied for the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.