I think unions could be key in transforming the labor movement by strategically organizing LGBTQ workers into their ranks. I think unions could be key in transforming the labor movement by strategically organizing LGBTQ workers into their ranks. Joan Jones, founder of the National LGBTQ Workers Center, facilitating a workshop during the 2019 LGBTQ Economic Justice Summit. That desire led me and my good friend, Joan Jones, to co-found the National LGBTQ Workers Center in 2018. At the National LGBTQ Workers Center, we’re not a union, but we come from the union movement.