NYC Council Passes Earned Sick Time Act, But Many Workers Don’t Get What They Deserve May 8, 2013 New York, NY – Today, after three years of organizing by low wage workers, the New York City Council passed a weakened version of the Earned Sick Time Act. While this marks progress for many workers who lacked paid sick days and who feared termination if they stayed home while sick, the final bill includes unacceptable compromises...

As a member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA), we are proud to share the USFSA’s statement on Immigration Policy Principles for Food Sovereignty.  To read the principles in Spanish, click here. If your organization would like to sign on in support, please click here to fill out a form or fill out the form below. Immigration Policy Principles for Food Sovereignty Preamble The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA)...

On March 2, 2013, Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) was on Up with Chris Hayes with Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio, Victoria of Restaurant Opportunities Center of Philadelphia, and a representative from New York’s National Restaurant Association to discuss the state of food service labor in our country’s restaurants. The discussion highlighted many issues that Saru Jayaraman...

The Welcome Table is both a website and an organization for food enthusiasts, food workers and advocates dedicated to a responsible food system.  Join the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and us to learn more, support responsible restaurants through the National Diners’ Guide & smartphone app, and advocate for change in the food system. We are on the cusp of creating real change for food workers and the food system...

Angie Rodriguez, Walmart worker & leader of OUR Walmart Watch our new video “The Hands That Feed Us, Part I“, which features workers throughout the food system talking about health and safety issues in the workplace and the lack of paid sick days. We have TWO VERSIONS of the video – one is bilingual in English/Spanish and the other has subtitles in Chinese, thanks to our UCLA intern Shijie Zhang. Angie...

What Can You Get for a Dime a Day?  A Lot Actually Sign our petition on SignOn.org telling members of Congress that as a consumer, you’re willing to pay an extra dime a day so that 29 million workers can receive a much needed raise and they should support the Fair Minimum Wage Act. Read the blog post below to learn more! *By Saru Jayaraman and Joann Lo* Big Food companies and their lobbying groups have lied to us many times....

June 6, 2012 – Today, the Food Chain Workers Alliance releases a new report, The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain, the first of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain – a sector that employs 20 million people in the U.S., comprising one-sixth of the nation’s workforce. The Hands That Feed Us is based on nearly 700 surveys...

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...

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,...