NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES
June 10, 2021 -- Today, more than a year into the pandemic, the Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its first Emergency Temporary Standard establishing enforceable…
FCWA 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…
Today the Food Chain Workers Alliance is launching the report "WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE: Food Workers Organizing on the COVID Frontlines." The report documents the devastating and disproportionate impacts of…
Today a team of worker justice organizations are releasing The COVID Jungle: Chicagoland’s Essential Food Workers and the Need for Vaccination Priority. Chicagoland is home to the country’s second largest…
As we look ahead past the 2020 elections we remain focused on the urgent needs facing food workers in this moment. Food worker exploitation is deeply set into U.S. laws…
Black, Latino, and Asian slaughterhouse workers suffered disproportionately as the meat industry scrambled to respond to COVID-19. Now, they’re demanding justice. Food Chain Workers Alliance and Rural Community Workers Alliance,…
