Organizing Essential Workers

Building a Global Essential workers Campaign during COVId-19

Sixty-one percent of people globally work in the informal economy. These workers lost significant portions of their income when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, especially women. By June 2020, workers in the informal economy were, on average, making just 55 percent of their pre-pandemic earnings.

In the formal economy, care workers are also struggling, with a majority reporting they do not earn enough to provide basic needs — housing, food, transportation — for their family.

Alongside more than a dozen global labor organizations, Brooke conceptualized and co-produced the first summit to lay out a global vision for a just economic recovery that recognizes the value of essential workers