Our Mission

Brandworkers is a non-profit organization bringing local food production workers together for good jobs and a sustainable food system. Your support helps the workers we all depend on lead their own campaigns for just, wholesome, and local food.

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Updates

May 26th Brandworkers Culture-Share: You are Invited for Soccer and a Picnic in the Park
Brandworkers Supporters Deliver Petition Challenging #Goldman Sachs on Food Fund
Brandworkers Protest Shakes Up NYCEDC Board Meeting
Help Us Transform the Food System
Lobbying Group for Food Factory Where Worker was Killed to Partner on City Subsidy Program

Recent Press

In These Times - Foodies Get Wobbly
In These Times - $950,000 Win for NYC Workers Invigorates Supply-Chain-Justice Movement [In These Times]
NY Daily News - Tortilla factory owner Erasmo Ponce arrested after probe by AG Schneiderman [NY Daily News]
NY Daily News - Rabbis joining with immigrant workers to pressure kosher producer into paying back wages [Daily News]
Counterpunch - Death in a New York Food Sweatshop [Counterpunch]
Michelle Chen - In These Times:
"[Brandworkers] stands out as part of an emergent radical strain in labor organizing that approaches the entire supply chain holistically"
Primo Aguilar, Brandworkers member:
"I feel proud today that my co-workers and I stood up, got organized, and won. This settlement means a great deal for us and our families.."

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Focus on the Food Chain

The Focus on the Food Chain campaign organizes recent immigrant workers in New York City’s food processing and distribution sector to challenge and overcome sweatshop conditions.