Media
Media Coverage of the Food Chain Workers Alliance
The Food Chain Workers Alliance has published two reports. Click here to see the media coverage from the release of “The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain” in June 2012 and “A Dime A Day: The Impact of the Miller/Harkin Minimum Wage Proposal on the Price of Food” in October 2012.We also received media coverage on our 1st Annual International Food Workers Week, November 18-24, 2012, and we were able to publish a number of blog posts related to the week!
- “Did You Eat Today? Thank a Food Worker“, by Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit (also on the Huffington Post, Food Safety News, and TreeHugger.com)
- “Do You Have Any Idea Who’s Bringing Your Dinner?”, by Steve Holt, Take Part
- “Celebrate Food Workers Week by being uncharacteristically nice at the grocery Store“, by Susie Cagle, Grist.org
- “Got Food? Thank Food Workers” on the Frying Pan News and reprinted on Unionosity.com, by FCWA Director Joann Lo
- A shorter version of “Got Food? Thank Food Workers” on GOOD.is
- “Celebrating Food Workers Week“, on PaidSickDaysforAll.org
GOOD.is also published a series of short op-eds by FCWA Director Joann Lo and one by FCWA Secretary/Treasurer Liana Foxvog of the International Labor Rights Forum to highlight specific actions for International Food Workers Week:
Other articles and news reports featuring or written by FCWA:
- FCWA and members featured in “From Field To Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain,” By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series on Truth-Out.org, May 19, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” featured on Up W/ Chris on MSNBC when Saru Jayaraman, author of Behind the Kitchen Door, was on to talk about her book and restaurant workers, March 2, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” highlighted in “Top 10 Reasons to Care About Food Workers” on the Huffington Post, Appetite for Profit, and other sites by Michele Simon, February 14, 2013
- Diana Robinson, our campaign & education coordinator, spoke on Third Eye Weekly on Breakthrough Radio, February 14, 2013
- Joann Lo, our executive director, co-authored “Food Movement: Another ‘Sleeping Giant’ Awakens on Immigration Reform” on Civil Eats, with Navina Khanna (Movement Strategy Center & Live Real) and Catherine Tactiquin (National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights), February 11, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” highlighted in “Can the Food Industry Kick its Cheap Labor Habit?” by Twilight Greenaway, TakePart.com, February 4, 2013
- FCWA mentioned in “Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too“, by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Yes!, January 30, 2013
- FCWA’s work to raise support for increasing the minimum wage among leaders, organizations, and businesses in the food movement featured in “Guess How Much Some Servers Make? (Hint: It’s Less Than $3)“, by Steve Holt, TakePart.com, January 28, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” cited in “Food Movement, Meet Labor Movement”, by Rebecca Burns, In These Times, Oct. 24, 2012
- FCWA mentioned in “The Food Movement Rising“, by Anna Lappé, Earth Island Journal, Oct. 24, 2012
- FCWA mentioned in “Farmers, Workers, Consumers, Unite! New Visions in Food Justice”, by Yvonne Yen Liu, Yes!magazine, Oct. 15, 2012
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” cited in “U.S. Recessions Deplete Middle-Skill Jobs, Study Finds”, Huffington Post, October 15, 2012
- FCWA Cover article in “The Real Food Chain”, RESIST Newsletter, March/April 2012
- FCWA Quoted in “Employers not liable if workers skip breaks, court rules“, by Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2012
- FCWA Featured in “Workers Challenge Big Food“, by Jenny Brown, Labor Notes, Nov. 23, 2011
