Building a center for workers
The Astoria Worker Project is a new initiative from the Consortium for Worker Education (CWE) to create a worker center to offer a range of social services to the residents of Astoria and Western Queens. The Astoria Worker Project will meld CWE’s proven workforce development programming with forward-thinking services that are responsive to New York City’s evolving economy. The center will offer workforce development resources and enhance workers’ rights, address mental health needs, support the creation of worker co-operatives, and provide programming to benefit Astoria’s immigrant communities.
Partners
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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards
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Council Member Tiffany Caban
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State Senator Kristen Gonzalez
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State Senator Jessica Ramos
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Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani
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Astoria Food Pantry
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HANAC
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Urban Upbound
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Boys and Girls Club Astoria
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Queens Economic Development Corporation
Conducted between December 2020 and February 2021 and comprising 726 individual responses of workers in Astoria and surrounding neighborhoods, such as Long Island City, the Astoria Project survey offers a unique portrait of workers in one neighborhood’s Covid experience that reveals the depth and breadth of the challenges the city will face at it emerges from the pandemic. Survey results were weighted by industry of employment to approximate the industry distribution of workers residing in Astoria.