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History
      The Southside Worker Center was opened by Southside Presbyterian Church as one of their social justice ministries in 2006 to provide a safe place of workers to wait for employment and to negotiate a just daily wage with potential employers. In the beginning the Center attracted as many as 100 workers a day but with the inception of the  anti-immigrant worker employer sanctions laws in 2008 work began to dwindle as did workers who moved on in search of a more politically tolerant environment. 
     Currently, the Center sees approximately 50 workers daily, who, in spite of the hostile climate created by employer sanction laws and anti-immigrant legislation such as Arizona Senate Bill 1070, continue to maintain that they too have a right to work by gathering at the Center. Along with offering a space for workers to wait for work we also focus on empowering the leadership of the workers through a variety of training, shared decision making, and by maintaining the Center as a worker-run organization.

Solidarity  ~   Justice  ~   Dignity  ~   Respect   ~  Professionalism

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  • About
    • All About Southside
    • Contact
    • Leadership >
      • Session
      • The Board of Deacons
    • History of Southside
  • Ministries
    • Children, Youth, & Families >
      • Kathy Jackson Fund
    • Cross Streets Community
    • Southside Worker Center
    • Samaritans
  • WORSHIP
    • Weekly Sermons
  • Building Project
  • THE SANCTUARY MOVEMENT
  • Supporting Southside