#foodworkers — Public Fediverse posts

Conspicuous consumption

Saru Jayaraman from #OneFairWage asks “Who wants to eat in any environment of abuse? Who wants to eat food that comes from the tears and sweat of people who are suffering?”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/16/the-travails-of-noma-god-chefs-brutal-kitchens-and-the-cult-of-fine-dining/

(Note: “Keeping out the riff Raff” - Reservations for the pop-up in #LosAngeles cost $1,500 (£1,120) per person and sold out in just minutes.
https://noma.dk/la/ )

God Chef Rene Redzepi Resigns
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07jr2pe5j9o

#Capitalism #Chefs #Cooks #foodworkers #Noma

Conspicuous consumption

Saru Jayaraman from #OneFairWage asks “Who wants to eat in any environment of abuse? Who wants to eat food that comes from the tears and sweat of people who are suffering?”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/16/the-travails-of-noma-god-chefs-brutal-kitchens-and-the-cult-of-fine-dining/

(Note: “Keeping out the riff Raff” - Reservations for the pop-up in #LosAngeles cost $1,500 (£1,120) per person and sold out in just minutes.
https://noma.dk/la/ )

God Chef Rene Redzepi Resigns
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07jr2pe5j9o

#Capitalism #Chefs #Cooks #foodworkers #Noma

Part 2
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/class-composition-in-the-cafe-sector-part-2

#BlueBottle
#cafe #foodworkers #frombelow #Labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #

https://notesfrombelow.org/article/class-composition-in-the-cafe-sector-part-1

#cafe #foodworkers #frombelow #Labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions

Los Angeles Passes US’s Highest Minimum Wage as Labor Prepares for 2028 Olympics

https://truthout.org/articles/los-angeles-passes-uss-highest-minimum-wage-as-labor-prepares-for-2028-olympics/

> Meanwhile, #unions organize as over 100 hotel and catering contracts in the area expire in the run-up to the #Olympics.

#labor #laborNews #workers #workingFamilies #hotelWorkers #foodWorkers #AFLCIO #UFCW #HERE #HTC #FRWU #progress #middleClass #economics #USlabor

UFCW’s assets: $199 million in 2014 - $521 million in 2022.

Retail: 800,000 grocery workers
118,000 in other stores.
Food Processing, Meat-Packing and Manufacturing 250,000 workers.
Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers 5,000 Cannabis10,000
Health Care Division 55,000 workers.

https://labornotes.org/2025/05/ufcw-president-stepping-down-successor-be-appointed-week

#foodworkers
#frombelow #labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions
Essential Workers for Democracy #EW4D
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union #RWDSU a #UFCW affiliate.

https://libcom.org/article/working-artistry-bakery-and-cafe-madaline-dreyfus

#foodworkers
#Labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #iww #StarbucksWorkersUnited

#labormovement #organize #Baristas #coffeeshops #direcation #boycott #marchontheboss #picket #strike #foodworkers #Peets #Starbucks #solidarity #unions

Asheville Food & Beverage United /
Union of Southern Service Workers

https://labornotes.org/2024/12/hurricane-ruins-north-carolina-food-workers-organize-and-fight

#foodworkers #organize #mutualaid #northcarolina #solidarity #asheville #unions #AFBU #USSW

Asheville Food & Beverage United /
Union of Southern Service Workers

https://labornotes.org/2024/12/hurricane-ruins-north-carolina-food-workers-organize-and-fight

#foodworkers #organize #mutualaid #northcarolina #solidarity #asheville #unions #AFBU #USSW

@ufwupdates

Source Durango Worker

#foodworkers #agriculturalworkers #farmworkers #organize #labormovement #WeFeedYou

@ufwupdates

Source Durango Worker

#foodworkers #agriculturalworkers #farmworkers #organize #labormovement #WeFeedYou

“We’re not asking for millions and millions of dollars. We’re asking for a good, livable wage.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/27/grocery-store-prices-inflation #FoodWorkers #PriceGouging #justice

“We’re not asking for millions and millions of dollars. We’re asking for a good, livable wage.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/27/grocery-store-prices-inflation #FoodWorkers #PriceGouging #justice

Interview United Food and Commercial Workers International #Union (#UFCW) Local 663 shop steward at Butterfield Foods in Butterfield, #Minnesota

https://workdaymagazine.org/dispatch-from-a-meat-packing-factory-if-we-unite-as-workers-we-have-the-power/

#labormovement #foodworkers

https://foodtank.com/news/2024/03/project-black-and-blue-is-revolutionizing-support-for-food-service-workers-in-crisis/

#foodworkers

Here's why requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave is in the public interest — and making the requirement universal keeps the playing field level wrt that expense.

Sick Workers Tied to 40% of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, C.D.C. Says

https://archive.ph/manBU

#sickLeave #paidSickLeave #unions #publicHealth #foodWorkers

Here's why requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave is in the public interest — and making the requirement universal keeps the playing field level wrt that expense.

Sick Workers Tied to 40% of Food Poisoning Outbreaks, C.D.C. Says

https://archive.ph/manBU

#sickLeave #paidSickLeave #unions #publicHealth #foodWorkers