Welcome Prachi Goyal to the Labor Center

Our labor education team was strengthened earlier this summer with the addition of Prachi Goyal (she/they). As an organizer that believes in collective worker power, Prachi has been engaging in rank-and-file movements through understanding the inherent trauma of exploitation within work. Due to her own experiences as a child of immigrants, her start within the movement was through immigrant and farmworker justice in Western Michigan.

She then attended the Labor Center at UMass Amherst for her MS where she worked with Community Labor United to help increase accessibility to childcare. Additionally, she engaged in rank and file organizing through organizing with UFCW 1459 and then ultimately voted in to be Co-Chair for GEO-UAW 2322. She helped to create campaigns to bring racial justice, immigrant rights, disability rights and gender equality issues to the table.  After, she worked as an organizer with UNITE HERE-New England Joint Board where she focused on new organizing for workers in the hospitality industry.

During Covid-19, she has been a lead educator and facilitator of labor organizing training for emergency workers through EWOC (Emergency Worker Organizing Committee), a national project with DSA and UE. She, along with other labor leaders, works on workshops to address the trauma that we all face from wage labor. She worked in collaboration with the MA area labor federation and Pioneer Valley worker center to teach workers how to build movements within their own workplaces in the Pioneer Valley.

Before landing at the Labor Center, Prachi was a labor educator focusing on racial justice and democracy at Washington Federation of State Employees. Prachi has joined our team as a full-time Labor Educator and will be one of the co-teachers of Building Workplace Power this fall.