Draft:Northwest LELO

Northwest LELO
Legacy of Equality, Leadership, and Organizing
Formation1973
Location
Key people
Websitelelo.org
Formerly called
Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office

Northwest LELO is an American labor organization founded by Black construction workers, Asian and Alaska Native cannery workers, and Latine farmworkers to fight racial discrimination in the workplace and in unions. LELO's tactics originally were centered around lawsuits but in the late 1980's became more focused on grassroots community organizing.[1][2]

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  2. ^ Johnson, Diana K. (2023). Seattle in coalition: multiracial alliances, labor politics, and transnational activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999. Justice, power, and politics. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-7279-3.