EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER
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Mission Statement
Empowering low-income families, workers and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society - regardless of immigration status.
About This Cause
WHAT IS THE EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER? The EJC is an employment justice and civil rights organization. We empower low-income working men and women to enforce their wage and employment rights, regardless of their immigration status. We also help working families, individual laborers, and communities achieve systemic reforms that will guarantee fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in the larger civil society. Using combined strategies of litigation, community education, systemic justice reform, and community-based coalition building, EJC enables low-income working people to defend their rights and their dignity. We are part of global movement building a broad sense of community and workplace justice, based on a vision of shared prosperity and encompassing all workers and their families without regard to wealth, status, or nationality. DIRECT CLIENT REPRESENTATION AND SYSTEMIC REFORM • Transnational Migrant Worker Rights • Plaintiffs’ Employment Law for Low-Wage Workers • Civil Litigation to Recover Unpaid Wages • Human Rights and Community Building EJC’S CENTRAL TEXAS WORKERS’ RIGHTS CENTER Our Workers’ Rights Center project provides a safe place where working men and women – whether immigrants, transnational migrants, or U.S.-born – can all come forward to recover their unpaid wages, to challenge exploitative workplace practices, and to systemically reform both the legal system and the labor market. We provide the legal support and representation that enables low-income workers to enforce their wage rights – regardless of their immigration status. We structure our legal advocacy in a way that further empowers workers through employment rights education and alliances with labor and community justice groups. EJC provides low-income workers the legal support and tools they need to be active players in a movement for systemic change, in solidarity with others fighting for social justice in Central Texas and around the globe. EJC’S TRANSNATIONAL WORKER RIGHTS CLINIC The Transnational Worker Rights Clinic is a 6-credit law school clinic operated by the Equal Justice Center in partnership with the University of Texas School of Law. Through the clinic, law students become workers’ rights advocates in the EJC’s Central Texas Immigrant Workers’ Rights Center. Clinic students work directly with transnational migrant workers to recover unpaid wages, they participate in adapting U.S. and international law to the evolving reality of a global workforce, and they learn to advance social justice through community-based lawyering. The Clinic is taught by EJC director, Bill Beardall, who is also on the UT Law School faculty.