Coalition

The NYC Coalition to Stop Credit Checks in Employment is a coalition of nearly 80 community, labor, civil rights, student, immigrant and legal services organizations, including:

  • 1199 SEIU
  • Adhikaar
  • Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development
  • Bridge Street Development Corporation
  • Brooklyn Workforce Innovations
  • CAMBA Legal Services
  • Center for Frontline Retail
  • Center for NYC Neighborhoods
  • Center for Popular Democracy
  • Center for Working Families
  • Chhaya CDC
  • College & Community Fellowship
  • ColorOfChange.org
  • Community Development Project of Urban Justice Center
  • Community Service Society of NY
  • Community Voices Heard
  • Cypress Hills LDC
  • Dēmos
  • District Council 1707 AFSCME
  • District Council 37
  • Fifth Avenue Committee
  • Financial Clinic
  • Goodwill Industries of Greater NY and Northern NJ
  • Grace Outreach
  • Habitat for Humanity – NYC
  • JASA/Legal Services for the Elderly in Queens
  • Latino Justice PRLDEF
  • Legal Aid Society
  • Legal Services NYC
  • Legal Services NYC – Bronx
  • Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union
  • Make the Road New York
  • Manhattan Legal Services
  • MFY Legal Services, Inc.
  • MHANY Management Inc.
  • NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
  • National Employment Law Project
  • National Lawyers Guild – NYC Chapter, Anti-Racism Committee
  • New Economy Project (formerly NEDAP)
  • New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
  • NHS of the North Bronx
  • NHS of Staten Island
  • NY Communities for Change
  • NYC Employment & Training Coalition
  • NY Hotel Trades Council
  • NY Legal Assistance Group
  • NYPIRG
  • NY Province of the Society of Jesuits
  • Pratt Area Community Council
  • Progressive States Network
  • Queens Community House
  • Queens Legal Services
  • Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
  • Retail Action Project
  • Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)
  • Sakhi for South Asian Women
  • South Brooklyn Legal Services
  • Staten Island Legal Services
  • Teamsters Local 237
  • UAW – Region 9
  • Union of Unemployed
  • University Neighborhood Housing Program
  • Urban Upbound (formerly East River Development Alliance)
  • Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL-NY)
  • Workers United, New York-New Jersey Regional Joint Board 
  • Working Families Party

 The following student groups are part of the coalition.

  • Bronx Community College Paralegal Society
  • CLAS Legislature, Brooklyn College
  • DIGIT (Pratt)
  • Law Students for Economic Justice (NYU)
  • Peace and Social Justice Club, Bronx Community College
  • Phi Theta Kappa Alpha Kappa Chapter, BMCC
  • Political Science Club, Brooklyn College
  • Pratt Institute Community Board
  • Queens College Int’l Students Community Club
  • Queens College Student Association
  • Queens College Union Programming Board
  • Rainbow Alliance, Bronx Community College
  • Student Government Association, NYC College of Technology
  • Student Government Association, Pratt Institute
  • USS Delegation for SGS, Brooklyn College