2022 ANNUAL REPORT
CONTENTS
Member Principles
From our Board:
From our Co-directors:
15 Joyful Wins
Financials
Staff
Member Principles
"Workers, together we decide our future"
We believe that all workers deserve fair wages, safe conditions; a voice in our workplace, and in decisions that impact our lives. Corporations and the wealthiest individuals control our economy, our politics and our everyday lives. We want a different world where we control our own lives and build the world we want to see for our families and future generations. We organize collectively for the power to build the world we want to live in; we organize to win economic justice; and we organize to win equity for all people of color, immigrants, people of all genders, religions and all marginalized communities. We are learning and teaching new things, taking action, and fighting back.
Led by Members: Reflections on 2022 from our Board
CTUL is a worker-led organization. Being worker-led doesn’t just mean that we are organizing in the streets and leading committees. Workers lead CTUL at every level, including our Board of Directors. We govern the organization, shape strategy and priorities, and support our incredible staff in their day-to-day work of implementing those priorities. CTUL stays focused on creating leaders – we have the tools, but we are never going to stop learning and building.
We set three big priorities for CTUL in 2022:
- To advance our strategic campaigns through political education of our members and relationships with strategic partners.
- To build stronger relationships across our Board, with staff, and with our members.
- To continue our base building, focusing especially on building solidarity among Black and Brown members, creatively bringing in new members, and deepening leadership opportunities for long-time members.
We are incredibly proud of the progress we made in 2022 on all three of these goals: from members traveling across the country to learn and share our lessons with other workers, to action after action locally to make sure that construction workers and all essential workers voices are heard. Throughout this report, you will find examples of our wins, our work, and our growth as an organization.
2022 also marked our 15th anniversary as a leading worker center. We loved celebrating our quinceñera this year, and we invite you to read about 15 of our most joyful wins throughout the past year. We are ready to struggle to make sure workers have a voice at their job and in their communities. We decide our future! We build the world we want to see for our families and future generations.
In solidarity,
The CTUL Board of Directors
From our Co-directors - What was 2022 for you?
What Was 2022 For you?
2022 was the year we got back into the streets after the pandemic shifted a lot of our organizing into the digital realm. We’ve been organizing all along, of course, but it feels great to be sharing spaces with people again, moving collectively. The Week of Action in June was incredibly powerful – seeing hundreds of CTUL members and allies from the Trade unions and our partner organizations marching together to lift up workers’ voices. Our Building Dignity and Respect march during the Week of Action was the official public launch of our construction campaign, for which we have been building the infrastructure for years.
We have been reflecting a lot on the culmination of our efforts to recover stolen wages over the past 15 years as well. We have been supporting construction workers specifically through class action lawsuits and small one-off suits for years, and we are now seeing significant victories, which is a result of the groundwork we have done in the Building Dignity and Respect campaign, and what we have learned from campaigns in the past. In the first 15 years of our work, we supported construction workers in recovering around $580,000 in unpaid wages. Over the past year of our work, we supported construction workers in recovering over $2.5 million in unpaid wages. This work to support individuals is a key part of our strategy to win systemic changes for low-wage workers in Minnesota more broadly.
As we look back both at the previous 15 years of CTUL’s work and at 2022 individually, we are seeing the power of focused, concerted campaigns.
Veronica Mendez Moore, Co-director
Merle Payne, Co-director
15 Joyful Wins
Financials
CTUL approaches its fundraising through a values-based approach. We are aligned with the principles of Community Centric Fundraising, and we believe that every donor is valuable and valued, regardless of the size of their gift. We engage all of our staff in the practice of donor organizing, and we raise funds through events, grants, contracted services, and individual gifts. We are immensely grateful for the support of the foundations, individuals, members, and allies who sustained us financially in 2022.
Advocates for Human Rights
BCTGM Local 22
Black Visions
The Carpenters Union
Cement Masons & Plasterers Local 633
Chicano Latino Studies U of M
De Leon Nestor Torres
East Side Freedom Library
Education MN
Guardian Angels Church
Hart Law Office
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
ISAIAH
IUOE Local 49
Labor Education Service
Laborers Local 563
Land Stewardship Project
Law Office of Tim Philips
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59
Minnesota Nurses Association
MN AFL-CIO
MN AFL-CIO- Retiree Council
NELP
Nichols Kaster Law
Rehab Results, LLC
SEIU HealthCare
SEIU MN State Council
St. Paul Regional Labor Federation AFL-CIO
St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28
Unite Here Local 17
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1189
Voices for Racial Justice
Foundations
Your generosity supports our movement ¡Gracias!
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Individual Contributions
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$185,828.26
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Ally Organizations
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$2,250.00
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Fundraising Events
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$5,7736.00
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Foundations
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$1,477,500.00
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Government Grants/Contracts
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$606,499.98
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Earned Revenue
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$9,0374.83
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GROSS INCOME
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$2,420,189.07
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ALLY ORGANIZATIONS
We are strengthened by our connections with other organizations, and we celebrate our 2022 partnerships with a heart full of gratitude. Thank you to those of you who have marched with us, led trainings with us, sponsored our work, and been in community as we work toward a better world together.
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Payroll Expenses
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$2,142,647.29
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Worker Relief-Lost Work
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$39,590.92
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Fundraising Event Expenses
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$2,119.68
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Contract Services
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$638,904.20
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Operations
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$
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Facilities and Equipment
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$
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Program Expenses
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$
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Professional Development
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$
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Other Insurance
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$
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Regranting
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$
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Mortgage Payments
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$
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Reserves (Ops / Capital)
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$
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Asset Fixed / Equipment
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$
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TOTAL EXPENSES
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$
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Staff
