On Day One of Food Workers Rising, we are asking you to support 350 striking food workers in Princeville Quebec! Meatpacking workers at Olymel have been on strike since October 29. The Quebec-based company is the largest hog producer in Canada. Workers at the Princeville Olymel plant took a $5.40 paycut in 2005 to help…
It centers around Christina Munce, a tipped worker and ROC member who earns $2.83 an hour as a server at Broad Street Diner in Philadelphia, PA. Her story is all too familiar to restaurant workers: earning a subminimum wage, relying on tips as income, and working unstable hours. For months, ROC worked with reporters for The…
Marchers take part in the Farmworker March for Dignity 2019, on August 4, 2019, in Whatcom County, Washington. David Bacon Washington State today is ground zero in the effort to hold back the massive use of agricultural guest workers by U.S. growers, and to ensure that farmworkers, both those living here and those coming under…
Everyday across the U.S., ICE, DHS and Border Patrol agents board buses with Greyhound’s permission and attempt to detain migrants. We demand Greyhound end all collaboration with ICE and Border Patrol. Greyhound is NOT required to allow immigration agents onto it’s buses and should stop all collaboration immediately. Buses are for transportation, not deportation! To…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08.09.2019 Contact: Emmett Schlenz, 401-855-9440, emmett.schlenz@christina-bronsinggmail-com Burgerville Workers at Three Stores Go on Strike over Bad Faith Bargaining PORTLAND, OR: Today, on Friday August 9, the Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU) went on strike at three stores to demand that Burgerville bargain with the Union in good faith and present workers with a…
The International Labor Rights Forum is hiring, for the Legal & Policy Director and Communications Coordinator positions. The International Labor Rights Forum is a human rights organization that advocates for dignity and justice for workers in the global economy. We hold global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains; we advance policies…
Here are ways to support the 680 immigrant food workers who were detained in the ICE raids in Mississippi on August 7. Donate to the UFCW Local 1529 Strike and Emergency Fund. The union represents workers at 2 of the plants where the ICE raids took place. The local’s fund is providing workers with financial…
Support grocery workers, not Wall Street Corporate grocery stores are making record profits but refuse to provide workers enough pay or hours to support themselves or their families. Sign this petition to support grocery workers! Nobody should work 2 or 3 jobs and not be able to afford housing, food, and basic healthcare. Especially when…
New York farmworkers won important new legal rights this week after a decades-long fight against their exclusion from basic labor laws. The Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act extends collective bargaining rights to farm workers, including card check certification, and improves access to overtime, a guaranteed day of rest, workers compensation, unemployment insurance, and other…
Check out this great profile of our co-director Jose Oliva in Food Print. He shares his personal story and celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Alliance in the article.
Solidarity with immigrants is a core value of the FCWA. As such, our members asked how could we collectively support the caravan of Central American migrants who are seeking asylum in the United States but are stuck in Mexico as the Trump administration refuses to process their asylum applications in a timely manner. We partnered with DREAM Team LA to…
Currently our member organization, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 770, has an active campaign at Overhill Farms. This fight began in 2009 when Overhill Farms unjustly fired 254 workers claiming “irregularities with their documentation,” and almost 10 years later the fight continues as Overhill Farms continues to deny workers the respect and dignity they…
