About Us

We educate, agitate, and organize city workers to improve their lives and the New Orleans community.

New Orleans City Workers Organizing Committee (NOCWOC) is made up of rank-and-file city workers rebuilding the union for New Orleans city employees. 

Since March 2020, NOCWOC has been organizing to win important struggles for workplace safety, to protect our public goods, and improve worker pay and benefits.

We have:

  • Led campaigns to protect public health and staff safety at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Led the Save Your NOLA Library Campaign in 2020 and 2021 that defended funding for our public library system

  • Helped win a $15/hour minimum wage for city workers and city contracted workers in 2021.

  • Led the campaign to pass the Right to Collectively Bargain Ordinance, protecting the rights of City Workers to form a union.

We stand for a democratic and member-led union that is responsive to member concerns. We stand for a union that advances the cause of worker rights not just for our workplaces but for the city’s working class as a whole. 

Learn more about our history

Meet the 2022 - 2023 Executive Board

  • Maria Singer

    Communications Coordinator

  • Lee Abbott

    Co-Chair

  • Emilie Staat

    Co-Chair

  • Steve Price

    Secretary-Treasurer

  • TBD

    Membership Coordinator

Meet the 2022 - 2023 Executive Board

  • Steve Price

    Secretary-Treasurer

  • Leslie Bean

    Membership Coordinator

  • Lee Abbott

    Communications Coordinator

  • Lily McNee

    Co-Chair

  • Joseph A. Colón

    Co-Chair