Media Coverage of the Food Chain Workers Alliance
The Food Chain Workers Alliance has published two reports. Click here to see the media coverage from the release of “The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain” in June 2012 and “A Dime A Day: The Impact of the Miller/Harkin Minimum Wage Proposal on the Price of Food” in October 2012.
Click here for media coverage of our past International Food Workers Weeks!
Other articles and news reports featuring or written by FCWA:
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“101 Facts That Make Us Hopeful About the Future of Food” by Food Tank lists FCWA & ROC United, one of our member groups, at #51, February 6, 2015
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“McDonald’s, Beef Industry Slammed for ‘Greenwashing’” lists FCWA as a signee to a letter criticizing the Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef, Environmental Leader, November 20, 2014
- “Our Everyday Food Worker Heroes” by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo & Associate Director Jose Oliva, in the Huffington Post, November 20, 2014
- “Food Day 2014: Food Justice = Worker Justice!” by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo, in the Huffington Post, October 22, 2014
- “On Labor Day, Let’s Celebrate Farm & Food System Workers” by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo and Lilia Smelkova, Food Day campaign coordinator, in the Huffington Post, August 26, 2014
- Coverage of our report “Food Insecurity of Restaurant Workers“, released on July 24, 2014, with Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay, and Food First:
- “Social Justice for Food Workers in a Foodie World” by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo in the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, June 15, 2014
- “101 Facts That Make Us Hopeful About the World“ by Food Tank – see #51! June 11, 2014
- “Food Workers Demand Better Pay” by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo in the National Journal, May 16, 2014
- “Raising the Tipped Minimum Wage Benefits Restaurant Workers and the Restaurant Industry“, by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo and ROC-LA Director Kathy Hoang in the Capital and Main, 4/28/14
- “Walmart Workers Win New Policies; Will They Extend to Workers Down Walmart’s Supply Chain?“, by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo in the Huffington Post, 4/17/14
- Coverage of our 3/31/14 Cesar Chávez Day of Action to Raise the Minimum Wage:
* “Food Chain Workers Take Action on Cesar Chavez Day” by FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo on the Huffington Post, 3/27/14
* “What’s the legacy of Cesar Chavez?” featuring an interview with FCWA Associate Director Jose Oliva on Public Radio International (PRI) by Angilee Shah, 3/31/14
* “If You Care About the Conditions of Farm Workers, It’s Probably Thanks to These Amazing People,” by Twilight Greenaway on TakePart.com, 3/28/14
* “Farmworkers Join Call for Higher Wages,” about the delegation to Senator Nelson’s office led by the Farmworker Association of Florida, by WMFE 90.7 radio, 3/31/14
- FCWA’s Executive Director Joann Lo’s talk at Yale University was featured in an article “Yale grad fights for workers up and down the ‘food chain’” in the New Haven Register on 2/18/14
- FCWA’s new video “Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast?” is featured in the Detriot Metro Times Blog : Today is Food Day
- FCWA Campaign & Education Coordinator Diana Robinson and ROC NY member Carolina Portillo are featured on this segment on Heritage Radio on 10/3/13. Listen here: https://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/4825-Everything-s-On-the-Table-Episode-3-Food-Economy-Jobs
- FCWA’s report “The Hands That Feed Us” is cited in this op-ed “Paid Sick Leave for Food Workers Leaves Us All Healthier,” by Paul Kinzie, in the Baltimore Sun, August 6, 2013
- FCWA Campaign and Education Coordinator Diana Robinson spoke on Food Sleuth Radio about union organizing, immigration reform and food workers July 18, 2013.
- FCWA Executive Director Joann Lo is quoted in this Food Integrity Campaign blog post about Anti-Whistle blower Ag Gag Laws, July 30, 2013
- FCWA’s Report The Hands That Feed Us is featured in this Mother Jones article “McDonald’s to Employees: Get a (Second) Job” — By Tom Philpott| Fri Jul. 26, 2013
- FCWA and Diana Robinson, our campaign & education coordinator, are featured in a handout entitled “The Hands That Feed Us” on the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility‘s website issues page under food, one of the priority issues of the ICCR, Spring 2013
- FCWA’s report, CIW’s Fair Food Program are mentioned and Saru Jayaraman Co-founder & Co-Director of Alliance member ROC United is interviewed in this article “Courting Foodies: The Modern “Fair Food” Movement”, by Sarah Childress, Frontline, PBS, June 25, 2013
- Diana Robinson, our campaign & education coordinator, spoke on the Carl in the Morning Radio Show June 24, 2013
- FCWA and Alliance member ROC United are mentioned in “Meet Up, Eat Up, Act Up: Consumers Join the Movement for Food Workers’ Rights” by Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series, June 16, 2013
- FCWA’s report is mentioned in “Bursey: Can being too business-friendly make you sick?” By Brett Bursey in The State, a South Carolina news outlets, June 5, 2013
- FCWA and members featured in “From Field To Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain,” By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series on Truth-Out.org, May 19, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” featured on Up W/ Chris on MSNBC when Saru Jayaraman, author of Behind the Kitchen Door, was on to talk about her book and restaurant workers, March 2, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” highlighted in “Top 10 Reasons to Care About Food Workers” on the Huffington Post, Appetite for Profit, and other sites by Michele Simon, February 14, 2013
- Diana Robinson, our campaign & education coordinator, spoke on Third Eye Weekly on Breakthrough Radio, February 14, 2013
- Joann Lo, our executive director, co-authored “Food Movement: Another ‘Sleeping Giant’ Awakens on Immigration Reform” on Civil Eats, with Navina Khanna (Movement Strategy Center & Live Real) and Catherine Tactiquin (National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights), February 11, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” highlighted in “Can the Food Industry Kick its Cheap Labor Habit?” by Twilight Greenaway, TakePart.com, February 4, 2013
- FCWA mentioned in “Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too“, by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Yes!, January 30, 2013
- FCWA’s work to raise support for increasing the minimum wage among leaders, organizations, and businesses in the food movement featured in “Guess How Much Some Servers Make? (Hint: It’s Less Than $3)“, by Steve Holt, TakePart.com, January 28, 2013
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” cited in “Food Movement, Meet Labor Movement”, by Rebecca Burns, In These Times, Oct. 24, 2012
- FCWA mentioned in “The Food Movement Rising“, by Anna Lappé, Earth Island Journal, Oct. 24, 2012
- FCWA mentioned in “Farmers, Workers, Consumers, Unite! New Visions in Food Justice”, by Yvonne Yen Liu, Yes!magazine, Oct. 15, 2012
- FCWA Report “The Hands That Feed Us” cited in “U.S. Recessions Deplete Middle-Skill Jobs, Study Finds”, Huffington Post, October 15, 2012
- FCWA Cover article in “The Real Food Chain”, RESIST Newsletter, March/April 2012
- FCWA Quoted in “Employers not liable if workers skip breaks, court rules“, by Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2012
- FCWA Featured in “Workers Challenge Big Food“, by Jenny Brown, Labor Notes, Nov. 23, 2011