Check out the article “Human Rights from Field to Fork: Improving Labor Conditions for Food-sector Workers by Organizing Across Boundaries,” published in the latest issue of the journal Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Context focused on “Food Justice.” The article is co-authored by Food Chain Workers Alliance Director Joann Lo and Ariel Jacobson, Senior Associate for Economic Justice at the Unitarian...

Feb. 3-4, UC Santa Cruz – Come hear Food Chain Workers Alliance director Joann Lo and leaders of FCWA member organizations speak at this conference – Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Chris Bohner of UNITE HERE’s Sustainable Food Project, and Saru Jayaraman of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. We’re excited that this conference is focused on FOOD WORKERS!  Here’s the...

WE ALL ENJOY EATING OUT. Unfortunately, the workers who cook, prepare, and serve our food suffer from poverty wages, no benefits like paid sick days, and little or no chance to move up to better positions. When the people who serve us food can’t afford to pay the rent or take a day off when they’re sick, our dining experience suffers. The newly released ROC National Diners’ Guide 2012 provides information on the...

You can now get your own FCWA t-shirt – union-made in the USA! We have men’s and women’s t-shirts in Small, Medium, Large, and X-Large. Just email us at info @ foodchainworkers.org with your order, address, phone number, and payment method.  You can send us a check made out to Food Chain Workers Alliance, 634 S. Spring St. #614, Los Angeles, CA 90014, or you can pay with PayPal or a credit card to ROC United,...

On Friday, October 14, at Mills College in Oakland, TEDxFruitvale: Harvesting Change brought together farmworkers, farmers, activists, artists, students, professors, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs to celebrate the people upon whom we depend to harvest our food.  In three sessions — Meet, Movement, and Money — a diverse cast of speakers provided a 360-degree view of farmworkers today and throughout history; compared...

Buy the Urban Roots Film and the FCWA will receive 35% or $7 of the total price of the DVD. This donation will further help our work to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. Click here to buy the film! Review of Documentary Urban Roots * By Katherine Cielinksi, FCWA intern * Photo courtesy of Urban Roots Film Detroit has been through a lot in the last half century. Once the heart of American...

The Food Chain Workers Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and working conditions for all workers along the food chain. 20 million people work in the food system, and millions more around the world toil in the food sector.