CLEAN Carwash Worker Center

"Carwasherxs Rising" is an initiative by the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center aimed at empowering immigrant car wash workers in Los Angeles. The program offers adult education in the car washing industry, including car washing and auto detailing, and workers' rights. The project will address adult literacy and income inequality. Through peer-led workshops, participants gain industry-specific skills, improve literacy, and understand labor laws, promoting economic mobility and workplace justice.

LA is home to one of the most dynamic and diverse restaurant industries in the world, and immigrant workers and small business owners are the heart and soul of it. But behind the scenes, exploitation and corporate consolidation threaten workers and small businesses alike. The Restaurant Equity Alliance (REA), co-led by KIWA and Inclusive Action for the City (IAC), is a citywide coalition and policy campaign to raise labor standards, support small businesses, and advance bold solutions for a just, thriving, and resilient restaurant economy.

Measure ULA was a historic win for tenants, workers, and low-income Angelenos— but now it’s under attack. The United to House LA coalition is defending this landmark initiative from anti-tax and real estate industry efforts to weaken or repeal it, while ensuring its transformative housing and homelessness programs reach the Angelenos who need them most. Through organizing, storytelling, and public education, we’ll mobilize communities, deliver on ULA’s promise, and continue building power for long-term housing justice.

CLEAN's mission of social change and worker empowerment is fulfilled through grassroots organizing, strategic outreach, skills-building workshops & civic action. Through direct organizing, carwasherxs advocacy efforts around job safety, workplace hazards, wage rights, environmental protection and health initiatives. Over the next year, our 2-part strategy plan is to protect workers' wages in countywide cases stemming from the unusually long rainy season in LA in addition to training workers how to build their own mobile carwash businesses.