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Support food chain workers every day by brewing our May Day Blend!


This fair trade, organic coffee is a medium-dark roast from Nicaragua and Sumatra, with cupping notes of raspberry and citrus and an earthy finish. 1 lb. whole-bean bags are available here for purchase to benefit FCWA!

NEWS FROM THE FRONTLINES

Support Grocery Workers – One job should be enough

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Support grocery workers, not Wall StreetCorporate grocery stores are making record profits but refuse to provide workers enough pay or hours to support themselves or their families. Sign this petition…

FCWA Statement on Farmworkers bill in NY State

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New York farmworkers won important new legal rights this week after a decades-long fight against their exclusion from basic labor laws. The Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act extends collective…

Co-Director Jose Oliva featured in Food Print

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Check out this great profile of our co-director Jose Oliva in Food Print. He shares his personal story and celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Alliance in the article.

Worker Leaders Grow & Learn with FCWA!

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Creating spaces for members to learn from each other’s organizing and build solidarity across the food chain is a key area of FCWA work. This year, 75 FCWA members gathered…

It’s International Migrants Day!

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Solidarity with immigrants is a core value of the FCWA. As such, our members asked how could we collectively support the caravan of Central American migrants who are seeking asylum in…

UFCW Local 770 and Overhil Farms Workers

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Currently our member organization, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 770, has an active campaign at Overhill Farms. This fight began in 2009 when Overhill Farms unjustly fired 254 workers…

Meet Our Members

We represent over 300,000 farmworkers, warehouse, meatpacking and distribution workers, restaurant industry and workers all along the food chain and all across the country.

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Our Programs

The Food Chain Workers Alliance focuses on four areas of work in order to improve the lives and communities of food system workers and their families. Each member organization participates in at least one of the four program committees.

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We’re a small and mighty team. Your dollars go far in an organization as lean and effective as we are. Make a tax-deductible donation today and support the work of the Food Chain Workers Alliance.

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Being part of this Alliance has been awesome. We're gonna be noticed. When you bring so many people together for one cause, that's when we make a change.

Ruth Faircloth, Rural and Migrant Ministry
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It's gonna take all of us. We really need to start talking amongst each other and getting more organized. Being part of the Food Chain Workers Alliacne is really big for my organization so we can amplify our stories and hopefully bring about change faster.

Dominic Ware, OUR Walmart (Organization United for Respect at Walmart)
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I was treated differently after i started organizing to form a union. But it's worth it to fight for equal rights, a better wage and a better future.

Velia Perez, Teamsters Joint Council 7
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I think the food movement needs to be much, much broader and the FCWA has made that intersectionality much more visible.

Jen Mendoza, Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center
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To know that other organizations are dealing with with the same issues - if we were all able to come together and work as one, I believe that it will change a lot of things.

Tammy Parkes, Rural and Migrant Ministry

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VOICES OF THE FOOD CHAIN

Listen to the StoryCorps interviews and see the full Voices of the Food Chain Series

Voices of the Food Chain is a project of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and Real Food Media to capture and share stories of the country’s 20 million food workers in their own words. Including voices of farmworkers, warehouse workers, meatpackers, line cooks, restaurant servers and more, the project features conversations recorded with StoryCorps, black and white portraits, and a video on the current challenges and victories at the intersection of labor and food. Voices of the Food Chain is part of a growing national movement to bring justice to all workers along the food chain.

Produced by Real Food Media
Director & Producer: Emmanuel Camacho
Camera Operator & Sound Recording: Jamie Davalos

We are fighting for a food system that is healthy, local, sustainable, humane and fair.
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