WAGES Profile
WAGES builds worker-owned green housecleaning cooperatives that create healthy, dignified jobs and build assets for low-income, immigrant women. Its strategy is to facilitate development of cooperative businesses that lead to both sustainable livelihoods (income) and wealth accumulation (assets such as business equity and retirement) for their members. The innovation takes a holistic approach to asset development by infusing wealth and asset creation along with the development of core skills and the opening of job opportunities for low-income, immigrant women.
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typical job in the cleaning industry has
low pay and no stability for the workers
Anand ssas cuartos diario de seis
cuartos que corresponde iana dos cuartos
por hora y pues los cuartos erin grandes
y completo y tenia nada más media hora
para almuerzo y esa mierda break el dia
todo el dia de su vida mi trabajo the
businesses that wages creates are
fundamentally different in two ways one
is that we have a very deep commitment
to green cleaning into worker health so
workers feel really good in terms of the
products that they use and the
conditions of their work la diferencia
en promoter on homie el trabajo que yo
te dije antes es que en el trabajo que
tenia antes trabajaba las ocho horas
pero la no tenia aseguranza medica no
sense in me enferme abba yokogawa Davos
ulta yo salia mucho mas al the other
fundamental differences of the workers
themselves on the business each member
has to invest four hundred dollars which
is her membership stake because she is a
member has made that investment she has
the right to vote on key decisions and
she has an internal capital account that
accumulates additional income over time
they can actually take out loans against
it no interest loans for when they have
a family emergency or a health issue
they have to deal with and those are
asset building tools that they didn’t
have access to before tell dem employer
mucho and we study then after at home en
la cooperativo este i dos tipos de pago
la distribución quince anal y la
distribución agua que la en la one es la
que estan las demacia he destroyed when
entra para sostener tenacious de la
coporate eva for the individual women
their personal incomes double and triple
most importantly if you look at the
family income
statistically that has increased seventy
percent after a year or two and the
co-operative fine at Ole Miss and I’m
sorry levi’s is one of our biggest
supporters and actually our biggest
investor in our new cooperative in San
Francisco they’ve helped us think
differently about the various levels of
our own asset building work whether it’s
through the internal capital accounts in
the co-op’s whether it’s through
encouraging the women to save giving
them access to emergency loans and
looking forward to that next realm of
possibility retirement savings children
savings accounts saving for their kids
education a lenovo win7 assembles
phenomeus assume patron consistent
ekanem said violence I believe the
cooperatives are an idea whose time has
come I see wages change women’s lives
every day whether it’s how they think of
themselves their confidence how they
talk to their children how they’re
involved in their community este creo
estoy hablando cosas de Blandino muchas
cosas y voy a zest ensenando mucho hacer
locust is a little ad I would like to
see a world where all women have the
opportunities that all of us want the
opportunity to do good work and be
appreciated for it the opportunity to
build a better life for your family the
opportunity to improve your skills to
develop yourself wages has built a dream
and a model on the passion and the hard
work of many many women over 15 years
and I want to see that model realize its
full potential
