Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers’ Center is a grassroots member-led community organizing group and worker center serving Chicago’s southeast side and south suburbs. CTU strives to build immigrant and worker power by working to advance systemic change that promotes social justice and stabilizes low-income immigrant communities and communities of color. The organization was founded in 2008 by a group of low-wage immigrant workers on Chicago’s under-served southeast side after experiencing labor abuses at a local factory and organizing in their defense. These community leaders were determined to build a grassroots led organization that would serve as a resource for low-wage and immigrant workers to organize against exploitation and fight for greater protections for the community. The founders’ vision was to support a continual stream of workers developing their own leadership in order to advocate for themselves and address the injustices they experienced at their workplace and in their communities.