The Charleston Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFÉ) builds workers’ organizations that fight for fairness, equality, and democracy in the workplaces and communities of the South Carolina Lowcountry

CAFÉ supports the formation of unions and other workplace-based groups through worker education and leadership development, advocacy, and direct action.

Our work is grounded in the certainty that there are no shortcuts to ending poverty and racism in Charleston and in the South. Only a labor-led mass movement with workers’ organizations at its center has the power to bring about the radical transformation of the region’s economy that we believe is necessary for the realization of what our late friend and longtime CAFÉ member James Campbell referred to as substantive democracy.  

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