Join us at the Food Workers & Food Justice Conference on June 5-6, 2012, in New York City! The Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA). UFCW Local 1500, an FCWA member, and the Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN) are co-organizing the conference, with co-sponsorship by the Doctor of Public Health (DPH) Program at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Close...

Alliance member Restaurant Opportunities Centers United has launched an exciting new national campaign, Dignity at Darden. In December 2011, workers from the Capital Grille Restaurant stood up for dignity in their restaurant company. On January 31st, Capital Grille workers in New York, Chicago, and in the Washington, DC area filed federal litigation against Capital Grille’s parent company Darden for discrimination and wage...

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...

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,...

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.