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Paid Summer Internship at Brandworkers

Brandworkers is accepting applications for a ten week paid organizing internship for a candidate interested in getting into social movement work.  The organizing intern will receive hands-on training and participate in Brandworkers new member organizing initiatives.  The intern will help recent immigrant workers of color develop workplace justice campaigns to combat wage theft, discrimination, and reckless disregard for health and safety in New York City's food processing and distribution industry.

Brandworkers Protest Shakes Up NYCEDC Board Meeting

As part of Brandworkers' grassroots campaign to prioritize the voices of workers and taxpayers in the direction of the Food Manufacturers Growth Fund, over a dozen Brandworkers supporters carried out our second protest at the New York City Economic Development Corporation's (NYCEDC) Board of Directors meeting last week. While the NYCEDC board members attempted to rush through their agenda, Brandworkers protestors held up two rows of signs that spelled out “Food Fund” and “Transparency” and disturbed the “business-as-usual” tenor of the gathering.

Lobbying Group for Food Factory Where Worker was Killed to Partner on City Subsidy Program

On Friday, the subsidized loan program for NYC food manufacturers, the Food Manufacturers Growth Fund, brought on East Williamsburg Valley Industrial Development Corporation (EWVIDCO) as its technical assistance partner. EWVIDCO is a business interest group that boasts among its members the infamous Tortilleria Chinantla—the Brooklyn tortilla factory where Juan Baten, a 22-year-old father, tragically died due to the unsafe working conditions maintained by owner Erasmo Ponce.

Tell Alicia Glen & Goldman Sachs: Good Food and Safe Jobs for NYC‏

Goldman Sachs doesn't want you to know what it does with your tax-dollars. Don't let your money go to law-breaking food sweatshops. Sign our petition to call on Alicia Glen of Goldman Sachs to create good jobs through their food manufacturers loan program.

Goldman Sachs no quiere que sepas lo que hace con tus impuestos. No dejes que tu dinero caiga en las manos de fábricas neglientes y malhechores. Firma nuestra petición para exigir a Alicia Glen de Goldman Sachs a que cree trabajos dignos mediante su programa de préstamos para fabricantes de alimentos.

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Brandworkers in the News

Foodies Get Wobbly

Food supply chain workers adopt the IWW’s radical actions to fight abusive employers.

BY Michelle Chen

Once upon a time in the labor movement, a rebellious vanguard emerged at the margins of American industry, braiding together workers on society’s fringes—immigrants, African Americans, women, unskilled laborers—under a broad banner of class struggle.

Features

Legal Defense-Plus

What is Brandworkers Legal Defense-Plus?

Brandworkers Legal Defense-Plus connects you with the diverse resources you need to improve your retail or food job. And it's free!

Brandworkers Legal Defense-Plus will provide you with the legal information you need to assert your rights. Where appropriate, we will seek out lawyers from our Movement for Brand Justice network that are interested in taking your case. While legal action is a good starting point, it will take a lot more to win justice.

That's where the "Plus" comes in. Keep reading.

Focus on the Food Chain

Focus on the Food Chain creates space for the immigrant workers of NYC's industrial food sector to build unity with each other, gain proficiency in the use of powerful social change tools, and carry out member-led workplace justice campaigns to win dignified working conditions.