Nonprofit

CLEAN Carwash Worker Center

CLEAN is a grassroots worker center that empowers carwasherxs, carwash workers, to make lasting changes in the carwash industry and in their communities. With over a decade of history in Los Angeles, CLEAN fights for the self-determination of immigrant and working-class people.

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  • LEARN ·2025 Grants Challenge

    Carwasherxs Rising

    "Carwasherxs Rising" is an initiative by the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center aimed at empowering immigrant car wash workers in Los Angeles. The program offers adult education in the car washing industry, including car washing and auto detailing, and workers' rights. The project will address adult literacy and income inequality. Through peer-led workshops, participants gain industry-specific skills, improve literacy, and understand labor laws, promoting economic mobility and workplace justice.

  • CREATE ·2023 Grants Challenge

    Moving Carwash Workers from Wage Equity to Entrepreneurship

    CLEAN's mission of social change and worker empowerment is fulfilled through grassroots organizing, strategic outreach, skills-building workshops & civic action. Through direct organizing, carwasherxs advocacy efforts around job safety, workplace hazards, wage rights, environmental protection and health initiatives. Over the next year, our 2-part strategy plan is to protect workers' wages in countywide cases stemming from the unusually long rainy season in LA in addition to training workers how to build their own mobile carwash businesses.

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