List of Local & National Events and Actions! Join the Food Chain Workers Alliance and food workers from around the country and the world November 18-24 to celebrate the first annual International Food Workers Week. You can organize an event with workers speaking about their experiences and show videos of workers throughout the food system. Then reflect…
Food MythBusters uses the power of storytelling and entertainment to address some of the biggest myths about food security, sustainable farming, hunger and the environment. The first film, “Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?”, exposes the biggest players in the food industry—from pesticide pushers to fertilizer makers to food processors and…
October 4, 2012: It’s a big day in food labor! Today, Walmart workers in Los Angeles went on strike – the first time in history that Walmart workers have walked off the job to protest unfair and unsafe working conditions! AND, Chipotle finally agreed to sign the Fair Food Agreement with FCWA member Coalition of…
October 16 is World Food Day! One billion people are hungry. To make it a Food Day for everyone in the world, we must turn our unjust food and farming system upside-down and focus our energy, organizing and resources on rebuilding local food economies — everywhere! That’s why FCWA is joining with the US Food…
Walmart warehouse workers in Southern California and Illinois went on strike! First in SoCal on Sept. 12, and then in Elwood, IL (outside of Chicago) on Sept. 15. Both groups of workers decided to go on strike to protest unfair and unsafe working conditions. On Sept. 28, the workers in Southern California went back to…
A new report “Big Business, Corporate Profits, and the Minimum Wage” by our friends at the National Employment Law Project examines the connection between the opposing extremes of stagnant wages and soaring corporate profits. While a great deal of attention has been directed at the role of Wall Street and the financial sector in driving…
“They are there to push you, to pressure you to get the job done.” Alliance member Warehouse Workers United has launched a new video series “Voices/Voces from the Warehouse“, featuring stories of workers in Walmart warehouses in Southern California. Check out the first one below, featuring WWU leader Santos Castañeda:
June 6, 2012 – Today, the Food Chain Workers Alliance releases a new report, The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain, the first of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain – a sector that employs 20 million people in the…
The Food Chain Workers Alliance has joined the 99% Power coalition. Starting this spring with corporate shareholder season, the 99% Power coalition—workers and retirees, families fighting foreclosure and the unemployed, students, immigrants and environmentalists—have united together to build an economy and a democracy that works for all us, not just for the 1%. Thousands of people will…
FCWA member Restaurant Opportunities Center 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…
The Food Chain Workers Alliance and a number of member organizations will present at this year’s annual Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) conference November 5-8, 2011. The theme for this year’s conference is Food Justice: Honoring Our Roots, Growing Our Movement. The FCWA’s workshop is called Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food…
Book-ended by national and international “Food Days,” highlighted by a major mobilization on Trader Joe’s headquarters in Southern California, and spurred on by consumer and farmworker indignation over the continuing and stubborn refusal on the part of supermarket industry leaders Trader Joe’s, Publix, Ahold USA and Kroger to support the groundbreaking changes taking root in Florida’s fields, we convene…
