About Us

In 2014, a team of restaurant workers, labor unions and local activists launched Pioneer Valley Workers Center to build power with workers and immigrants through community organizing, mutual aid, and the solidarity economy.  Since our founding, PVWC members have organized for wage theft protections and better working conditions, municipal and statewide policies to protect and improve the lives of immigrants, and increased the public’s awareness about the realities facing immigrant workers.

Today, PVWC is an organization that is of, by and for immigrant workers. Our diverse membership base of immigrant workers come from across Latin America and work in low-wage industries such as agriculture, construction, landscaping, cleaning/laundry services, restaurants, and more. We shift power within our own organization by being led at the staff, Board and member level by those who come from our membership base and are directly affected by the issues that we work on.