Mia Butzbaugh
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Mia Butzbaugh 2003 fellow
Bold Idea
Protect the rights of low-wage, immigrant, and contingent workers in the Pacific Northwest by providing high-quality legal services and trainings.
Organization
In this current time, when relative minimum wages are falling, international trade is depressing wages, and welfare reform is pushing women into low-wage jobs, employers have adopted subcontracting and temporary employment strategies, often hiring immigrant workers. In response to these shifting economic and employment trends, there is a critical need for immigrant workers to protect themselves. The Northwest Worker’s Justice Program provides high-quality legal services, organizing assistance, and trainings to protect the rights of low-wage, immigrant, and contingent workers; mitigate the effects of international trade; and build partnerships with labor unions and other non-traditional funders of legal services.
Biography
Mia Butzbaugh has both interned and worked for Labor Notes, an organization in Detroit that is committed to building a democratic, inclusive, and responsive labor movement. She graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2001 and co-founded the Northwest Workers' Justice Project in 2003.
