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¡Mahoma, Presente!

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The former and current staff of the Food Chain Workers Alliance are heartbroken that we lost our compañero and dear friend Mahoma López Garfias last week. 

Mahoma’s work with FCWA member group the Laundry Workers Center started back in 2012 when he supported Hot & Crusty workers throughout a 50-day lockout that ultimately led to a three-year union contract.

After that, Mahoma was a driving force supporting workers across NYC and New Jersey, securing victories like earned sick leave and raising the minimum wage

Last week, Laundry Workers Center shared: “Under his leadership, the LWC grew its power, joining coalitions with the Food Chain Workers Alliance, the Excluded Workers Fund, and many others. Even until last week, Mahoma was doing what he loved most: discussing strategy and finding ways to reach more workers.”

In Alliance spaces, we could always count on Mahoma to show up and bring people together, whether he was making art at the annual summit or leading discussions on how to build worker-led campaigns and independent unions. He never hesitated to roll up his sleeves—always there for setup and cleanup. Mahoma was someone we could always count on.

We have lost a brother and a friend. An irreplaceable and deeply valued member of our community. Our movement is truly stronger because of him and we continue the work in his honor.

¡Mahoma, Presente!

 

ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA! ICE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES!

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(español abajo) The Food Chain Workers Alliance stands with unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses in Minnesota who have called for a general economic strike on Friday, January 23 in protest of ICE’s presence in their state and the agency’s continued brutal assaults on community members including children, US citizens, and refugees

A general strike is a widespread work stoppage across multiple industries to pause all economic activity. It’s a kind of “people’s veto” by which we, the workers, harness our collective power in the face of injustice. General strikes are a staple of protest politics and labor organizing that are frequently employed in other countries such as France and India

The general strike in Minnesota is more of a mass mobilization than a true strike, as no unions have officially voted to go on strike. However, major unions have endorsed the call for Minnesotans to refuse work, school, and shopping. 

What the Trump administration is doing, along with the violent occupation by ICE in cities like Minneapolis, is a frontal attack on workers and our human rights. People are kidnapped at work, in Home Depot parking lots, on construction sites, on farms, on their way to and from work. 

We have a long way to go to build the organized worker power we need for collective liberation and to reclaim our sovereignty from the 1%. That’s why more of these actions are on the horizon. The UAW has called for a general strike in 2028, when they’ll be entering negotiations for three major contracts. They’re calling for the rest of the labor movement to join them in going beyond these specific contract fights, working together to “bring the billionaire class to heel” and demand massive, transformational change. 

This will require strong organization and widespread participation across the country, and we need to start preparing now. That means we need to start bringing labor and community together, and push our unions to make bold demands. 

Let’s start today by standing with Minnesota. 



¡ICE FUERA DE MINNESOTA!

¡ICE FUERA DE NUESTRAS COMUNIDADES!

La Alianza de Trabajadores de la Cadena Alimentaria se solidariza con los sindicatos, organizaciones comunitarias, líderes religiosos y pequeños negocios de Minnesota que han convocado a una huelga económica general el viernes 23 de enero, en protesta por la presencia de ICE en su estado y por los continuos y brutales ataques de la agencia contra miembros de la comunidad, incluyendo niñas y niños, ciudadanos estadounidenses y personas refugiadas.

Una huelga general es una suspensión amplia del trabajo en múltiples industrias para pausar toda la actividad económica. Es una especie de “veto del pueblo”, mediante el cual quienes trabajamos ejercemos nuestro poder colectivo frente a la injusticia. Las huelgas generales son una herramienta histórica de la protesta política y la organización laboral, y se utilizan con frecuencia en otros países como Francia e India.

La huelga general en Minnesota es más una movilización masiva que una huelga formal, ya que ningún sindicato ha votado oficialmente ir a la huelga. Sin embargo, sindicatos importantes han respaldado el llamado a que la gente de Minnesota se abstenga de trabajar, asistir a la escuela y consumir.

Lo que está haciendo la administración Trump, junto con la violenta ocupación de ICE en ciudades como Minneapolis, es un ataque frontal contra las y los trabajadores y nuestros derechos humanos. Las personas son secuestradas en sus lugares de trabajo, en estacionamientos de Home Depot, en sitios de construcción, en granjas, y en su camino hacia y desde el trabajo.

Nos queda un largo camino por recorrer para construir el poder organizado de la clase trabajadora que necesitamos para la liberación colectiva y para recuperar nuestra soberanía del 1%. Por eso, más acciones como esta se vislumbran en el horizonte. El sindicato UAW ha convocado a una huelga general en 2028, cuando entrarán en negociaciones de tres contratos importantes. Están llamando al resto del movimiento laboral a sumarse y a ir más allá de estas luchas contractuales específicas, trabajando juntas y juntos para “poner en su lugar a la clase multimillonaria” y exigir cambios masivos y transformadores.

Esto requerirá una organización fuerte y una participación amplia en todo el país, y necesitamos empezar a prepararnos desde ahora. Eso significa comenzar a unir al movimiento laboral con las comunidades y presionar a nuestros sindicatos para que planteen demandas audaces.

Empecemos hoy solidarizándonos con Minnesota.

International Food Workers Week: NSLU Contract Fight

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Another year gone by and NSLU is still fighting for their first contract! 

New Seasons Labor Union is an independent union of workers at Portland grocery chain New Seasons Markets. They won their first union vote in 2022 and now represent ~850 workers across ten locations. In 2025, they affiliated with UE Local 1010.

They have been bargaining for their first contract for 3+ years, and have remained militant in the face of bad faith stalling tactics from the company, authorizing work stoppages, one-day strikes, a nine-day ULP strike, and an ongoing customer boycott. 

Now, as they get closer and closer to a contract, the company still refuses to meet workers’ needs on wages and health care.

On November 15, 83% of voting NSLU members authorize a strike. They’ve given the company until December 4 to offer an acceptable proposal. Otherwise, workers will strike starting December 17. 

For Day 3 of #InternationalFoodWorkersWeek, stand with NSLU and tell New Seasons Markets: NO CONTRACT, NO CUSTOMERS by signing the pledge: nslu.org/community-sign-up.

If workers go on strike, they will need community support: NSLU.org/donate.


October 2025: FCWA members in Portland for our annual Worker Leaders Retreat take to the streets to rally in solidarity with NSLU and local comrades Burgerville Workers Union and Fried Egg Workers Union, all fighting for contracts.

International Food Workers Week: Immigration Rapid Response

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“There are virtually no limits on what federal agents can do to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations.” — ProPublica

Right now, ICE is bursting at the seams with billions of dollars in new funding, thousands of new hires, and more than 1,100 new working agreements with local police departments. Not to mention permission from SCOTUS to racially profile.

As of November 17, there are 65,140 people in ICE custody — up from 39,240 in January. That’s an increase of 66% this year, according to The Guardian‘s analysis of ICE data. In the same time frame, the agency has made roughly 290,000 arrests and about the same amount of deportations. 72% of people arrested had no criminal conviction. 90% were Latino. 170 were U.S. citizens, while others had pending asylum cases, green cards, or work visas.

Over the last nine months, we’ve seen countless videos of people  dragged into unmarked cars by masked “agents” who offer no identification and no warrants. Because our local governments are unwilling and/or unable to rein in this activity, immigrant communities have come together to defend themselves. Everywhere that ICE is active, rapid response networks have cropped up to:

  • patrol neighborhoods,
  • report ICE activity,
  • track down detainees,
  • and provide cash and legal support to victims and family members left behind.

FCWA members are doing this work in their local communities, and they need your support. For Day Two of International Food Workers Week, consider giving to these rapid response networks: 


Syracuse Immigrant & Refugee Defense Network

A project of the Workers’ Center of Central New York.
Holding rallies, alerting the community about ICE activity, raising funds and more.


LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts
A coalition of immigrant-led, community groups including Pioneer Valley Workers’ Center.
Defense Hotline to report ICE activity, get help, and connect with trained volunteers.


Migrant Justice Immigrant Rights Campaign
Through public campaigns, MJ has won the release and prevented the deportation of many members of our community: Danilo, Eliazar, Victor, Miguel, Enrique, Zully, Yesenia, Esau, Jose Luis, Alejandro, Eli, Beto, Ismael, Wuendy, Max, José, Arbey, Nacho, Heidi, and more.


FCWA Immigration Rapid Response Fund

Making small grants to FCWA members for their work defending immigrant communities, and to individuals for legal fees, bail costs, commissary funds, emergency housing, and travel costs.

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International Food Workers Week: Oppose H-2A Expansion!

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We established #InternationalFoodWorkersWeek to honor food workers during the week of Thanksgiving, when most Americans are focused on grocery shopping, cooking, and eating.

At the grocery store, we think carefully about which products are the best value or quality. But we rarely consider how that turkey actually got into the freezer case in front of us. How many people’s labor went into hatching, raising, slaughtering, processing, packing, storing, transporting, and stocking that turkey?

22+ million people working in the U.S. food system earn a median annual income of just $28,000. They experience high rates of wage theft, injuries, food insecurity, and a lack of healthcare. Many are immigrants. And in 2025, whether they have legal status or not, immigrants are being snatched from their communities in brazen, racist, sometimes unconstitutional attacks.

But ICE isn’t grabbing farmworkers, street vendors, and restaurant workers so that those jobs can go to (white) Americans. Trump and his cronies want Black and brown immigrants to do this hard labor. They just want to control them and exclude them from the society their work supports.

    

That’s one reason we’re seeing so much new legislation around the H-2A program. H-2A provides temporary visas for foreign nationals seeking seasonal agricultural jobs on U.S. farms.

“Hosting H-2A workers costs a lot of money,” said FCWA member Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino in 2024, “but companies would rather do that than pay local workers a better wage, because of the control they have over them.” 

Under H-2A, workers mostly live on the farms where they work, in employer-provided housing that can be crowded, dirty, and non-functional. They are isolated from the local community and tied to an employer who can send them home at a moment’s notice.  These workers have little incentive to speak up about conditions — and conditions are getting worse. The Trump administration just lowered the national prevailing wage for H-2A workers and for the first time in history, employers are allowed to deduct rent from workers’ wages. 

H-2A impacts local farmworkers too. In Washington State, FCWA members Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Community to Community Development have watched local workers lose jobs year after year as H-2A expands in their state.

For all these reasons and more, FCWA and our members in the agricultural sector have vehemently opposed proposals to expand H-2A. In fact, we’ve been opposing the Farm Workforce Modernization Act for years, and it has failed twice before.

For Day One of International Food Workers Week, we’re asking that you OPPOSE any legislation that aims to expand the H-2A program, mandate use of E-Verify, or offer “paths to citizenship” that require YEARS of hard labor before gaining status. C2C and FUJ are specifically calling on all labor advocates to oppose the following bills:

Farm Workforce Modernization Act (HR 3227)
Sponsor: Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Co-Sponsors: Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Michael K. Simpson (R-ID), Jim Costa (D-CA), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Adam Gray (D-CA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Josh Harder (D-CA), Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA)

Dignidad (Dignity) Act (HR 4393)
Sponsor: Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL)
Co-Sponsors: Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), David G. Valadao (R-CA), Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Susie Lee (D-NV), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Adam Gray (D-CA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Gabe Evans (R-CO), Mike Levin (D-CA), Marlin A. Stutzman (R-IN), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Don Bacon (R-NE), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Young Kim (R-CA), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Lori Trahan (D-MA), James R. Baird (R-IN), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY)

Bracero Program 2.0 Act (HR 4367)
Sponsor: Monica De La Cruz (R-TX)
Co-Sponsors: Randy K. Weber (R-TX), Roger Williams (R-TX)

Moving H-2A to the Department of Agriculture Act (HR 1891)
Sponsor: W. Gregory Steube (R-FL)

August, 2024: Community to Community Development action at Enfield Farms in Whatcom County, WA. FCWA members in town for our annual summit rallied with C2C to demand that Enfield return to hiring local farmworkers, and stop replacing them with H-2A workers who are highly exploited. Photos by Sattva Photo and Edgar Franks. 

2025 Summit in Portland!

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Last week, 54 workers and organizers from across FCWA membership traveled to Portland for our annual Worker Leaders Retreat!

Every year, FCWA members get together in-person for relationship-building, peer sharing, and strategizing for the year ahead. This year, we were thrilled to be welcomed to Portland by local co-hosts Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU) and New Seasons Labor Union (NSLU). BVWU and NSLU are independent, worker-led unions at the forefront of food worker organizing in their city. Alongside their comrades at the Fried Egg Workers Union (FEWU), they came to the summit to share their organizing stories and provide grounding in the local labor movement.

All three groups are part of Portland’s Coalition of Independent Unions (CIU), and all three are currently in negotiations for a fair contract with their employer. New Seasons Labor Union has just surpassed three years of bargaining for their first contract, and Burgerville Workers Union has surpassed two years of negotiations for their second. Meanwhile, the newer Fried Egg Workers Union (who just won their union vote last year) has already faced two unjust firings of union members as they work toward their first contract.

On Sunday, FCWA members joined a local action for all three unions, marching across the Hawthorne Bridge and rallying outside New Seasons Markets’ new corporate offices. At the rally, worker leaders spoke from all three unions spoke about contract demands and their commitment to reaching a good deal: “We are fighting for the things most important to our members: wages, COLA, PTO, a fair attendance policy, and so much more,” said NSLU member Jimbo. “Our focus has been on that bargaining platform: a better working life for our members. But I’m grateful and proud to say that my union is not just a business union, not just in it for the contract. We are a fighting union and a militant union. We have taken steps to support other unions and other causes, because our fights are connected.”

The disciplined and militant actions of these local groups was an inspiration to fellow FCWA members. After peer-to-peer workshops, group visioning sessions, and our annual membership meeting, we left Portland feeling inspired by each other’s work and ready to fight that much harder for worker justice!

Welcome & Art Making

Action in support of BVWU, NSLU, and FEWU as negotiations for fair contracts drag on. Workers are demanding fair wages, safe conditions, and protections for immigrant workers. 

Workshops: Building Power through Policy, Worker Cooperatives, and Unionization; Immigration Rights & Community Defense; Urban & Rural Worker Power; Worker-Led Organizing for Heat Protections; and more. 

Thank you to everyone who made the 2025 summit possible: every worker and organizer who traveled to participate, our co-hosts Burgerville Workers Union and New Seasons Labor Union, the FCWA Board of Directors and Growth & Learning Committee; Dr. Bronner’s for always sending the best products for our members, and of course, every FCWA member group represented:

Alianza Agrícola
Brandworkers
Burgerville Workers Union
California Institute for Rural Studies
Community to Community Development
Fair Work Center
Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Farmworker Association of Florida
Laundry Workers Center
Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights
New Seasons Labor Union
ROC-DC
Rural Community Workers Alliance
Trabajadores Unidos por la Justicia
UFCW Local 770
United for Respect
Venceremos
Workers Empowerment Community Network of LA
Warehouse Workers for Justice
Workers’ Center of Central New York
Worker Justice Center of New York

Organizing Institute: Fall 2025 Cohort has Launched!

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In 2021 we launched a new virtual leadership development training to replace our in-person model put on hold by the pandemic. It quickly became a core model, attracting more participants and connecting workers from all corners of North America in one learning space.

This month we launched our eighth organizing cohort, with 16 frontline workers from five U.S. states, one Canadian province, and multiple sectors of the food system: agriculture, processing, warehouse, service, and retail.

In their own words:

“I worked front of house in restaurants for many years… [then] I was an industrial baker for two years.”

“I work on a dairy farm, I’ve worked here for eleven years, driving tractors currently.”

“I work with calves and have been for six years.”

“I worked in the kitchen and now I’m in food delivery.”

“I worked in a vegetable greenhouse for eight seasons of eight months each time and had to endure harsh treatment, difficult working task and difficult working conditions.” 

Over six sessions, FCWA organizers and member guest speakers will facilitate training on the current political context of labor organizing, gender justice at work and in our movement, and campaign planning and development.

We asked cohort members why they wanted to join the program:

“My coworkers and I unionized… because of the low pay, lack of benefits, and climate hazards we faced in our job. We faced really nasty union busting from the law firm that now represents Trump’s NLRB. The bargaining committee has been bargaining with management for 11 months now.”

“In my work place, majority of workers are afraid of being sent home if they speak out about different bad working conditions.” 

“That every person has the opportunity to learn about our rights, that we are taken into account to participate and that we are respected regardless of who we are.”

“Continuous learning and adaptation, social change is a constantly evolving field where yesterday’s solutions may not be the most appropriate for today’s problem. I am motivated by the opportunity to learn in every interaction.” 

This program is part of FCWA’s Organizing Institute, which aims to seed and support worker-led organizing across the food chain. 

Thank you to our members who are facilitating worker participation in this cohort:

Alianza Agrícola
Brandworkers
The Farmworker Association of Florida
Justicia for Migrant Workers
Laundry Workers Center
Workers’ Center of CNY
Warehouse Workers for Justice
WECN-LA
Venceremos

We’re Hiring: FCWA Staff Organizer

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The Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) is a bi-national coalition of 36 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.

FCWA unites workers across all sectors of the food system. Our members use different strategies and work in different regions, yet are aligned in their vision for a grassroots, worker-led movement to build power and end exploitation in the food system. As a member-driven organization, FCWA is a unique space for this collective strategy.

Our organizing North Star is to increase organized worker density in the food system with strategies led by our members. We work to fulfill this mission by providing worker leadership development programs, supporting our members’ organizing, nurturing collective strategy, and building alliances with broader social movements for justice.

We are seeking to hire an experienced organizer to co-lead our expanding organizing program alongside our members and our current organizing team.

Main responsibilities include:

  • Continue to expand the Food Chain Workers Alliance’s organizing program with support from the Director of Organizing and FCWA staff.
  • Be in constant communication with our members via one-on-ones to identify, develop, and implement new member-driven organizing opportunities and cross-sector campaigns.
  • Provide strategic support to food workers organizing among our membership base through the leadership development work under our Organizing Institute.
  • Help build curriculum for trainings, programs, and maintain constant communication with our members to identify their areas of interest.
  • Co-facilitate the member-led Movement Building Committee to foster and grow food sector-wide projects like supply chain mapping, climate justice, and other areas that help shape the strategic direction of our work.
  • Support the FCWA Growth and Learning Committee to build the organizing skills and the leadership of food workers, including our annual leader summit.
  • Facilitate cross-member solidarity through coordinating sector calls, organizing skill-shares, and political education webinars.
  • Work with the FCWA’s staff team to strategically grow our membership in the U.S, Canada, and other regions in North America.
  • Work with the Director of Organizing and FCWA staff to explore which parts of this work to directly lead.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE will possess the following:

  • Experience in grassroots organizing, with a strong preference for workers’ rights organizing, whether through unions or worker centers.
  • Commitment to foster relationships with marginalized workers and communities, including immigrants, women, people of color, and/or gender non-conforming people.
  • Demonstrated commitment to building racial and social justice centered in worker leadership, community organizing, and popular education.
  • Experience building multi-racial and diverse coalitions and campaign strategies that center workers and/or directly affected communities.
  • Ability to travel several times per year, and occasionally work non-traditional hours such as nights and weekends.
  • Skilled at:
    • planning and prioritizing the everyday work guided by our mission.
    • relationship building, collective work, and effective communication with colleagues and partners.
    • designing and co-facilitating trainings with diverse participants based on needs across membership.
    • bi- or multi-lingual (oral and written) in Spanish and/or another language is highly preferred.

The location for this position is flexible. Ideally, the position will begin October 15 but the start date is flexible.

Compensation: Competitive salary between $70,000 – $80,000 commensurate with experience, and an excellent benefits package.

FCWA is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages people of color, immigrants, women, non-binary, and LGBTQ individuals to apply.

TO APPLY: Submit resume and cover letter to info@foodchainworkers.org

 

FCWA Organizer. Job Description 2025

 

La Alianza de Trabajadores de la Cadena Alimentaria (FCWA) es una coalición binacional de 36 organizaciones de trabajadores cuyos miembros plantan, cosechan, procesan, empacan, transportan, preparan, sirven y venden alimentos, organizándose para mejorar los salarios y las condiciones laborales de todos los trabajadores a lo largo de la cadena alimentaria.

FCWA une a trabajadores de todos los sectores del sistema alimentario. Nuestros miembros utilizan diferentes estrategias y trabajan en distintas regiones, pero comparten su visión de un movimiento de base, liderado por los trabajadores, para fortalecer su poder y acabar con la explotación en el sistema alimentario. Como organización impulsada por sus miembros, FCWA es un espacio único para esta estrategia colectiva.

El objetivo principal de la Alianza en materia de organización es aumentar la densidad de trabajadores organizados en el sistema alimentario mediante estrategias lideradas por nuestros miembros. Trabajamos para cumplir esta misión ofreciendo programas de desarrollo de liderazgo laboral, apoyando la organización de nuestros miembros, impulsando estrategias colectivas y forjando alianzas con movimientos sociales más amplios por la justicia.
Estamos buscando contratar a un organizador experimentado para codirigir nuestro programa de organización en expansión junto con nuestros miembros y nuestro equipo organizador actual.

Las principales responsabilidades incluyen:

  • Continuar ampliando el programa de organización de la Food Chain Workers Alliance con el apoyo del Director de Organización y el personal de FCWA.
  • Mantenerse en comunicación constante con nuestros miembros a través de reuniones individuales para identificar, desarrollar e implementar nuevas oportunidades de organización impulsadas por los miembros y campañas intersectoriales.
  • Brindar apoyo estratégico a los trabajadores de alimentos que se organizan entre nuestra base de miembros a través del trabajo de desarrollo de liderazgo en nuestro Instituto de Organización.
  • Ayudar a crear currículos para capacitaciones, programas y mantener una comunicación constante con nuestros miembros para identificar sus áreas de interés.
  • Co-facilitar el Comité de Construcción de Movimiento dirigido por los miembros para fomentar y hacer crecer proyectos de todo el sector alimentario, como el mapeo de la cadena de suministro, la justicia climática y otras áreas que ayudan a dar forma a la dirección estratégica de nuestro trabajo.
  • Apoye al Comité de Crecimiento y Aprendizaje de FCWA para desarrollar las habilidades organizativas y el liderazgo de los trabajadores de alimentos, incluida nuestra cumbre anual de líderes.
  • Facilitar la solidaridad entre miembros mediante la coordinación de convocatorias sectoriales, la organización de intercambios de habilidades y seminarios web de educación política.
  • Trabajar con el equipo de personal de la FCWA para hacer crecer estratégicamente nuestra membresía en los EE. UU., Canadá y otras regiones de América del Norte.
  • Trabaje con el Director de Organización y el personal de FCWA para explorar qué partes de este trabajo liderar directamente.

EL CANDIDATO IDEAL poseerá lo siguiente:

  • Experiencia en organización de base, con una fuerte preferencia por la organización de los derechos de los trabajadores, ya sea a través de sindicatos o centros de trabajadores.
  • Compromiso de fomentar relaciones con trabajadores y comunidades marginados, incluidos inmigrantes, mujeres, personas de color y/o personas no conformes con su género.
  • Demostró compromiso con la construcción de la justicia racial y social centrada en el liderazgo de los trabajadores, la organización comunitaria y la educación popular.
  • Experiencia en la construcción de coaliciones multirraciales y diversas y estrategias de campaña que centren a los trabajadores y/o las comunidades directamente afectadas.
  • Capacidad para viajar varias veces al año y ocasionalmente trabajar en horarios no tradicionales, como noches y fines de semana.
  • Experto en:
    • planificar y priorizar el trabajo diario guiados por nuestra misión.
    • Construcción de relaciones, trabajo colectivo y comunicación efectiva con colegas y socios.
    • Diseñar y co-facilitar capacitaciones con diversos participantes en función de las necesidades de todos los miembros.
    • Se prefiere bilingüe o multilingüe (oral y escrito) en español y/u otro idioma.

La ubicación para este puesto es flexible. Idealmente, el puesto comenzará el 15 de octubre pero la fecha de inicio es flexible.

COMPENSACIÓN: Salario competitivo entre $70,000-$80,000, acorde a la experiencia, y un excelente paquete de beneficios.

La FCWA es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades y alienta encarecidamente a las personas de color, inmigrantes, mujeres, personas no binarias y personas LGBTQ a postularse.

PARA APLICAR: Envíe su currículum vitae y carta de presentación a info@foodchainworkers.org

 

ESP FCWA Organizer Job Description 2025

Calor extremo: los trabajadoros necesitan agua, descansos, ventilación

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Los trabajadores de la industria alimentaria tienen calor, y la situación empeora cada vez más.

¿Sabías que en EE. UU. y Canadá no existen leyes federales que protejan a los trabajadores del calor extremo ni de las lesiones y enfermedades que este puede causar? En EE. UU., solo siete estados han promulgado sus propias protecciones contra el calor, pero ni siquiera estas se aplican a todos los trabajadores sin exclusiones.

En 2024, OSHA finalmente propuso una norma federal sobre calor. Si bien la FCWA y nuestros miembros consideraron que podría haber sido más contundente y abogaron por enmiendas y mejores medidas de cumplimiento, esto hubiera sido mejor que nada. Bajo la nueva administración, cualquier norma sobre protección del calor será imprecisa e inaplicable, si es que se  llega a adoptar.

Pero no es ninguna novedad que los trabajadores no puedan confiar en OSHA para proteger sus derechos. Con una baja capacidad de inspección, sanciones débiles para los infractores y una enorme brecha en las normas básicas para peligros como las temperaturas extremas y  COVID-19.

Por eso debemos empoderar a los trabajadores de la industria alimentaria para que se organicen en sus lugares de trabajo y exijan cambios a nivel estatal y local. Los empleadores y los legisladores deben colaborar con los trabajadores para crear protecciones para el calor #HeatProtections sólidas y exigibles que incluyan:

💧 Agua potable abundante

☂️ Acceso suficiente a la sombra

🚾 Acceso a baños y descansos

🌡️ Temperaturas de activación claras

🧑‍🏫 Capacitación sobre estrés del calor para trabajadores

💵 Pago por trabajo perdido 

🏥 Asistencia médica y bajas por enfermedad 

Estas normas deben aplicarse a TODOS los trabajadores y extenderse a las viviendas proporcionadas por el empleador.

Y consulte estos recursos para obtener más información sobre los peligros de las lesiones y enfermedades causadas por el calor para todo tipo de trabajadores en todo el sistema alimentario y más allá:

Map: Occupational Heat Safety Standards in the United States  
NRDC, actualizado el 12 de  August, 2025

Know the Facts, Demand Protection
COSH  Nacional

UNWORKABLE: Dangerous Heat Puts Florida Workers at Risk
Asociación de Trabajadores Agrícolas de Florida y Public Citizen, 2018

Extreme Heat at Amazon Air
Centro de recursos para trabajadores de almacén, septiembre de 2022

ESSENTIALLY UNPROTECTED: A Focus on Farmworker Health Laws and Policies Addressing Pesticide Exposure and Heat-Related Illness
Facultad de Derecho de Vermont, el Centro de Agricultura y Sistemas Alimentarios y el Centro Johns Hopkins para un Futuro Habitable, mayo de 2021

Extreme Heat: Workers Need Water, Breaks, Ventilation

By News

Food Workers are HOT and it’s only getting HOTTER. But in the U.S. and Canada, there are no federal laws to protect workers from the injuries and illnesses caused by extreme heat. Only seven U.S. states have enacted their own heat protections, but even those do not apply to all workers.

In 2024, OSHA finally proposed a heat standard. Although FCWA and members thought it could have been stronger and advocated for amendments and better enforcement, it would have been better than nothing. However, under the new administration, any standard will be vague and unenforceable if it’s adopted at all.

Workers know that it’s nothing new that they can’t rely on OSHA to protect their rights. For years, the agency has had low capacity for inspections, weak penalties for violators, and a gaping hole in basic standards for dangers like extreme temperatures and COVID-19.

That’s why we must empower food workers to organize in their workplaces and demand change at the state and local levels. Employers and legislators must collaborate with workers to create strong, enforceable #HeatProtections that include: 

💧 Ample drinkable water

☂️ Sufficient access to shade

🚾 Bathroom access and breaks 

🌡️ Clear trigger temperatures 

🧑‍🏫 Heat stress trainings

💵 Pay for work lost due to extreme heat

🏥 Healthcare and sick leave

These standards must apply to ALL workers and extend to employer-provided housing. Consult these resources for more about the dangers of heat injury and illness for all types of workers across the food system and beyond:

Map: Occupational Heat Safety Standards in the United States
NRDC, updated August 12, 2025

Know the Facts, Demand Protection
National COSH

UNWORKABLE: Dangerous Heat Puts Florida Workers at Risk
Farmworker Association of Florida & Public Citizen, 2018

Extreme Heat at Amazon Air
Warehouse Worker Resource Center, September 2022

ESSENTIALLY UNPROTECTED: A Focus on Farmworker Health Laws and Policies Addressing Pesticide Exposure and Heat-Related Illness
VT Law School, Center for Agriculture & Food Systems & Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, May 2021

 

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