Fighting for workers rights and building worker power in the DC restaurant industry for over a decade!
Rural Community Workers Alliance
Rural Community Workers Alliance is organizing meatpacking plant workers in rural Missouri to improve health and safety conditions, address wage theft, and other workplace issues. RCWA also organizes with the Latino immigrant community to address issues such as language access in healthcare, community services, and food access.
Rural & Migrant Ministry
Rural and Migrant Ministry is a statewide interfaith organization that organizes farmworkers mostly in western New York– Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse. They have been leading the Justice for Farmworkers Campaign to pass legislation that would provide farmworkers with the same rights as other workers, such as the right to overtime pay, a day of rest, and the right to organize.
Street Vendors Association of Chicago
As a result of constant attacks by inspectors and city officials, the Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes (Association of Street Vendors, AVA) formed in 1992. With courage and sadness its members remember when city inspectors threw their products in the garbage or them doused with Clorox. Today, with new hopes, strength, and expectations, Chicago street vendors have come together once more. AVA's goal is to unite in solidarity in order to create a world in which street vendors work under reasonable regulations and are allowed to live with dignity.
The Street Vendor Project
The Street Vendor Project is a membership-based project with more than 1,500 active vendor members who are working together to create a vendors’ movement for permanent change. They advocate for more power and more respect for street vendors. They are part of the Urban Justice Center, a non-profit organization that provides legal representation and advocates for marginalized New Yorkers.
Teamsters Joint Council 7
Teamsters Joint Council 7 represents 100,000 working men and women in 22 local unions in Northern California, the Central Valley, and Northern Nevada. It is the largest union in the Central Valley, with 40,000 members between Bakersfield and Sacramento. Its members work in trucking, warehousing/distribution, freight, food processing, dairies, solid waste/recycling, public services, beverages, and more.
Trabajadores Unidos por la Justicia
Somos una nueva unión de trabajadores de bodega basada en Yakima, Washington. // We are a new fruit warehouse workers union based in Yakima, Washington.
Teamsters Local 63
In 1975, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters granted a charter to Local 63. What began as a 3,000-member, Los Angeles-based Local has now proudly grown to over 16,000 members covering Central California to the Mexican border, and from the Pacific Coast to Arizona and Nevada. Members work in virtually every Teamster-represented industry in eight divisions: Dairy, Meat, Freight, Grocery, Bakery, Car Haul, UPS and Miscellaneous. The strength of the Local is derived from the Diversity of these hardworking members. The incredible growth of Local 63 is the result of years of aggressive organizing, the mergers of other locals, and the goals and visions of passionate leaders. Their dedicated work has also helped protect jobs through years of an ever-changing economy.
UFCW Local 770
UFCW Local 770 is the largest local union of the UFCW in the U.S. It represents 30,000 members in grocery stores, pharmacies, packinghouses, and food processing plants in the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo in Southern California.
Venceremos
Venceremos is a worker-based organization in Arkansas whose mission is to ensure the human rights of poultry workers. Venceremos seeks to spearhead adaptation of the Worker-driven Social Responsibility model to the poultry supply chain.
