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Getting Organized: Lessons to be Learned

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Proteus, (2001)

Abstract

At the recent Chicago conference, I interviewed two people who are involved in interpreter representation. Jorge Carbajosa is a Cook County state court interpreter and one of the organizers of the Interpreters Working Group (IWG), a small group of interpreters organizing to attain professional representation in the Cook County state courts. In Cook County all interpreters are state employees. The working group is seeking to increase pay rates and define the position. 'It has been a difficult and slow process,' commented Mr. Carbajosa, referring to a two-year effort to coordinate the working group's participation in the Communication Workers of America Union, which is associated with The Translators and Interpreters Guild and has experience in other states, such as New Jersey.

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