Organizing the Unorganizable – Justice for Janitors: An Interview with Valery Alzaga

Valery Alzaga (Mexico City/Berlin) is a labour organizer and a migrant rights activist. Since 1999 she has organized with the Justice for Janitors Campaign throughout the US, UK and Holland. She has also worked as an organizing coordinator in different cities throughout Europe, Turkey and South Africa and is currently in advising various unions including IGMetall and Verdi (in Germany) organizing wind sector and outsourced airport service workers respectively. Her main interest is to develop new forms of bio-unionism and effective organizing and campaign strategies for newly emergent industries. She is currently working for the Change to Win – European Organizing Center