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It’s International Food Workers Week!

Wed, 11/22/2023 - 09:10

It’s International Food Workers Week!

We started IFWW in 2012 to uplift workers in the food system and call for the public to support worker organizing. The week of U.S. Thanksgiving is an opportune time to reflect on the food chain: 22 million people work in our food system, and our economy and daily sustenance depends on these essential workers. During the height of the pandemic, we relied on them to stay working in fields, processing plants, warehouses, grocery stores, and restaurants while so many people stayed at home.

Yet, the national median wage for food workers is just $10 per hour, and food workers are forced to rely on food stamps to feed themselves and their families at more than twice the rate of the general workforce. Discriminatory and abusive practices are commonplace for workers in our food system, particularly for women, immigrants, and people of color.

Food workers continue fighting to stop exploitation and improve their conditions and communities. In 2023, FCWA members have been organizing against child labor rollbacks, anti-immigrant policies, and employer retaliation. Others organized for heat stress protections, fair labor standards, and critical environmental policies. We cannot have healthy food systems as long as food workers are being exploited.

In honor of International Food Workers Week, you can take action in support of FCWA member campaigns today:

REGISTER: Southern Human Rights Organizer Conference in Nashville, TN
SHROC is a unique opportunity for human rights organizers and grassroots organizers to come together to share strategies, learn from each other, and build relationships.

SIGN: Petition for an Excluded Workers Fund in NYS
Unemployment insurance is an essential labor right. We are calling on Governor Hochul and NYS legislators to repair the holes in our safety net and prevent the most vulnerable workers from being excluded again.

DONATE: Los Cabricanecos Campaign
Construction workers at the Super Best Cleaning in Brooklyn have experienced wage theft, hazardous conditions, exposure to chemicals without protection, and retaliation for organizing. Support their fight!

DONATE: Burgerville Workers’ Union Defense Fund
Since the start of communications with management about negotiations, we have received only a torrent of opposition. We are asking folks to give to our Defense Fund so we can effectively support our members across the PNW.

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Recap: Food Worker Summit in Arkansas

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 12:00

We are reinvigorated for the year to come after wrapping up our 12th annual Food Worker Summit last month!

65 workers and organizers from 19 groups gathered in Springdale, Arkansas for this annual convening of FCWA members, welcomed by fellow member and our local host: Venceremos. Here’s a quick recap of four days in Arkansas with leaders from across the Alliance:

Pizza and artmaking at Venceremos HQ with the incredible Chicago ACT Collective

Mistica & Opening Plenary: Struggles & Organizing in the South

 

Peer-to-peer workshops: Building cooperatives and solidarity economies; Lavender Solidarity: Combating the rise of anti-Queer segments of society & our movement; Workers Organizing around Heat; Processing Workers Organizing; Building Cooperatives and Solidarity Economies; Union Organizing; and more!

 

Action at Tyson Foods! Tyson is headquartered in Springdale, and on Monday, October 16, Venceremos led us in a march on the HQ to demand accountability on three key issues: inhumane line speeds, high rates of worker injury, and potential child labor in Tyson’s supply chain. When we sent a delegation to deliver our letter, we were told by security that we would have to come back after making an appointment. But the messages from Tyson workers, expressed through powerful art, chants, and speeches could not be ignored. And we will be back!

Learn more in press coverage from the action: Republicans continue effort to erode US child labor rules despite teen deaths (The Guardian, 10/20/23); Protestors urge Arkansas’ Tyson to commit to child labor, worker safety protections (Arkansas Advocate, 10/17/23); and Poultry plant workers protest child labor, ask for better working conditions (Arkansas Times, 10/16/23)

 

Plenary: Power Mapping our Movement; Member-to-Member Discussion on Racial Capitalism

 

The summit is a highlight for FCWA members and staff every year, and where we build and strengthen so many important relationships across our movement. We are grateful to all the members who made time to attend and lead sessions, to everyone who supported this annual event by donating, and especially to our incredible local hosts Venceremos.

Until next year!

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FWMA : Here We Go Again

Tue, 08/08/2023 - 13:05

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On June 30 2023, Representative Lofgren and other house members introduced a new version of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2023). Food Chain Workers Alliance farmworker members are appalled by the decision to put this bill forward for a third time. The FWMA is a bill at the service of the agriculture industry, and a threat to migrant farmworkers and their families.

It is unacceptable that the proponents of this bill have not engaged in dialogue with the many farmworkers and grassroots farmworker organizations across the country who do not want to revive the FWMA.

Together, our Alliance will continue to oppose this pro-deportation and anti-labor bill, as we have since its first appearance in 2019. The days of accepting dehumanizing laws because they are “the best we can get” are over. Farmworkers deserve better, and they will keep fighting to build a better future for themselves and their families.

Learn more about FCWA members’ opposition to this bill in coverage from the last time we opposed it: here and here.

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El 30 de junio 2023, el Representante Lofgren y otros miembros de la cámara baja introdujeron una nueva versión de Ley de Modernización de Los Trabajadores Agrícolas (Ley de Modernización de Los Trabajadores Agrícolas de 2023). Los miembros trabajadores agrícolas de Food Chain Workers Alliance están consternados por la decisión de introducir el proyecto de ley por tercera vez. La FWMA es un proyecto de ley al servicio de la industria agrícola, y es una amenaza para los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes y sus familias.

Es inaceptable que los proponentes de este proyecto de ley no hayan participado en diálogo con muchos trabajadores agrícolas y organizaciones de trabajadores agrícolas de base en el país que no quieren revivir la FWMA.

Juntos, nuestra Alianza continuará oponiéndose a este proyecto de ley pro-deportación y anti-laboral, así como lo hemos hecho desde su primera introducción en el 2019. Los tiempos en que aceptamos leyes deshumanizantes porque eran “las mejores que podemos tener” se acabaron. Los trabajadores merecen algo mejor, y continuarán luchando por un mejor futuro para ellos mismos y sus familias.

Aprenda más sobre la oposición de los miembros de FCWA a este proyecto de ley en la cobertura de la última vez en que lo opusimos: aquí y aquí

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Procuring Food Justice: read our new report on a decade of values-based procurement

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 08:00

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New Report Exposes Corporate Control of Public Supply Chains and the Communities Reclaiming Them
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A new report released today from the Food Chain Workers Alliance and HEAL Food Alliance analyzes how grassroots leaders have won policies in 10 U.S. cities that hold institutions accountable to purchasing food from suppliers who support people working on the frontlines, local communities, animals, and the environment – collectively influencing over $540 million in public food dollars. 

Procuring Food Justice: Grassroots Solutions for Reclaiming Public Supply Chains distills lessons from a decade of organizing to offer advocates a new blueprint for leveraging a “values-based purchasing” strategy to challenge corporate control of public food and redirect billions of taxpayer dollars toward small producers, producers of color, and suppliers with fair labor practices.

“This new analysis reveals how just a handful of corporations have seized near-total control of our public supply chains so they can rake in profits while paying workers poverty wages, putting lives at risk with hazardous working conditions, and retaliating against workers who exercise their right to organize,” said Christina Spach, Food Campaigns Director at the Food Chain Workers Alliance. “This report outlines opportunities for leveraging public contracts to hold these corporations accountable. In order for public contracts to reflect public values, we must demand transparency from suppliers and establish consequences for companies that do not follow fair labor practices.”  

“Three out of five kids rely on the food served in public schools, and they deserve food systems that support them, not entrench them in the current state of inequality” said Jose Oliva, Campaigns Director at HEAL Food Alliance. “These massive food corporations are using taxpayer dollars to increase their own profit margins at the expense of our children, working people, and the planet. The solutions detailed in this report show that it is possible to get quality, nutritious, and sustainable food into schools and other public feeding programs – where kids and families need it most.” 

The report draws on the testimonies of organizers and advocates on the ground, including surveys of 83 people working on the frontlines of production and warehousing; case studies with farmers, food aggregators, and processing plant workers; and 50 interviews with organizers, farmers, advocates, and academics. The report concludes that there are two primary needs for the future success of this work: supply chain transparency and real enforcement mechanisms.


“Our local work to implement values-based food procurement is only possible with meaningful support from our state government. New York has some of the most restrictive procurement laws in the country, so we are keenly aware that lowest bidder requirements are incredibly prohibitive and do not create enough space for food purchasing to be democratized across municipalities. Eliminating lowest bidder requirements and lifting barriers to values-based food procurement allows municipalities to make decisions about their institutional food purchasing needs that are aligned with the values of the communities they are serving.”

Ribka Getachew
Director of the NY Good Food Purchasing Program Campaign
Community Food Advocates 


“I asked for the data [for procurement contracts]. Who bought from whom? Who ends up with the contracts? The three privileged white farmers that already had a monopoly on everything because they “work with organic methods.” Well, so do all of us [ACN’s Black, Indigenous and producers of color], but because they had that longevity of farming, they also had the capital, the land, the resources, the labor, and they had their white skin privilege.”

Helga Garcia-Garza
Director of Agri-Cultura Co-operative Network


The full report is available at: procuringfoodjustice.org

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El Nuevo Reporte Expone el Control Corporativo de Las Cadenas Públicas de Distribución de Suministros y las Comunidades que las Reclama.  

Un nuevo reporte publicado hoy por Food Chain Workers Alliance y HEAL Food Alliance analiza la manera que los líderes de base han ganado políticas en 10 ciudades de EE.UU. que tiene instituciones responsables para comprar alimentos de los proveedores que apoyan a las personas trabajando en las primeras líneas, las comunidades locales, los animales, y el medio ambiente – colectivamente influyendo más de $540 millones en dólares de alimentos públicos.

Adquirir la Justicia Alimentaria: Soluciones de Base para Reclamar Las Cadenas Públicas De Distribución destila lecciones de una década de organizar para ofrecerle a los promotores un nuevo plan para potenciar la estrategia “comprar basado en valores” para retar el control corporativo de los alimentos públicos y redirigir miles de millones de dólares de contribuyentes hacia pequeños productores, productores de color, y proveedores con practicas laborales justas.

“Este nuevo análisis revela cuánto un manojo de corporaciones han tomado un control casi total de nuestras cadenas públicas de distribución de suministros para que puedan embolsarse las ganancias mientras le pagan a los trabajadores sueldos de nivel de pobreza, poniendo a riesgo los derechos a organizar,” dijo Christina Spach, Directora de Campañas de Alimentos de Food Chain Workers Alliance. “Este reporte perfila las oportunidades para aprovechar los contratos públicos para hacer responsables a estas corporaciones. Para que los contratos públicos reflejen los valores públicos, tenemos que exigir transparencia de los proveedores y establecer consecuencias para las compañías que no siguen las prácticas laborales justas.”

“Tres de cada cinco niños dependen de los alimentos que se sirven en las escuelas públicas, y merecen sistemas de alimentos que los apoyen, no que los afiance en el estado actual de desigualdad,” dijo Jose Oliva, el Director de Campañas de HEAL Food Alliance. Estas corporaciones masivas de alimentos usan los dólares de los contribuyentes para aumentar su propio margen a costa de nuestros hijos, la gente trabajadora, y el planeta. Las soluciones detalladas en este reporte demuestran que es posible obtener alimentos de calidad, nutriente y sostenible en las escuelas y otros programas públicos de alimentación – en donde los niños y las familias más lo necesitan.

El reporte recurre de los testimonios de organizadores y de defensores sobre el terreno, incluyendo encuestas de 83 personas que trabajan en la primera línea de la producción y los almacenes; estudios monográficos con agricultores, agregadores de alimentos, y trabajadores de plantas de procesamiento; y 50 entrevistas con organizadores, agricultores, defensores, e investigadores. El reporte concluye que hay dos necesidades principales para el éxito de este trabajo en el futuro: la transparencia de la cadena de producción y mecanismos auténticos de responsabilidad.

“Nuestro trabajo de implementar la adquisición de alimentos basados en valores sólo es posible con apoyo significativo de nuestro gobierno estatal. Nueva York tiene una de las leyes de adquisición más restrictivas en el país, por eso estamos plenamente conscientes de que los requisitos más bajos del licitador son increíblemente prohibitivos y no crean espacio suficiente para que la compra de alimentos sea democratizada en las municipalidades. Eliminar los requisitos más bajos del licitador y levantar las barreras de la adquisición de alimentos basados en los valores le permite a las municipalidades tomar decisiones sobre su necesidad de compras de alimentos institucionales para que estén más alineadas con los valores de las comunidades que sirven.”

Ribka Getachew
Directora de NY Good Food Purchasing Program Campaign
Community Food Advocates


“Yo pedí la información [para los contratos de adquisición]. ¿Quién compró de quien? ¿Quién se queda con los contratos? Los tres agricultores blancos privilegiados que ya tienen un monopolio de todo porque ellos “trabajan con métodos orgánicos.” Pues, tambien todos nosotros [Las personas negras, indígenas y productors de color de ACN], pero porque han tenido la larga duracion de la agriculturas, tambien han tenido el capital, la tierra, los recursos, el labor, y han tenido el privilegio de su piel blanca.”

Helga Garcia-Garza
Directora de Agri-Cultura Co-operative Network

Puede encontrar el reporte completo en: procuringfoodjustice.org

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The Food Workers Organizing Institute!

Mon, 05/01/2023 - 09:13

On International Workers’ Day, we’re excited to announce the launch of our Food Workers Organizing Institute!
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Since our founding in 2009, the Food Chain Workers Alliance has been committed to building organized worker density in the food chain with strategies led by members. To achieve that vision, we support 33 member groups — representing hundreds of thousands of food workers from the fields to the check-out counters — to amplify their organizing projects, build their leadership skills, and foster solidarity across the food system.

Over the past three years, we have responded to members’ desire for more programming for workers and senior organizers to build skills, share strategies, and develop organizing projects with peer support. The Food Workers Organizing Institute combines existing programs with a few new ones:

Food Sector-based cohorts: Workers from FCWA member groups learn and share organizing strategies, campaign planning and power analysis skills. Meetings are led by FCWA staff and a range of guest speakers.

Member Organizer Fellowship: Workers and organizers from FCWA member groups expand their work under the mentorship of our staff, and receive funding to spend one day per week on an organizing project important to their sector.

Senior Organizer Trainings: One-off trainings on strategy and organizing tools for experienced organizers. Upcoming topics include overcoming employer retaliation and supply chain mapping.

Conducting these programs virtually makes them more accessible to workers and allows us to convene participants from across North America. We provide iPads, wifi hotspots, tech support, language interpretation, and stipends to workers to ensure accessibility.

As an alliance of groups organizing workers across the entire food chain, we have the unique opportunity to create a pipeline of worker organizers to connect with the larger food movement and effect meaningful changes to our food system. Stay tuned for more updates from these spaces and check out the FCWA blog to meet our 2023 Member Fellows!

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¡En el Día de los Trabajadores Internacionales, estamos emocionados de anunciar el lanzamiento del Instituto de Los Trabajadores de Alimentos Organizando!

Desde nuestra fundación en el 2009, Food Chain Workers Alliance ha estado comprometida a construir una densidad de trabajadores organizados en la cadena alimenticia con estrategias lideradas por los miembros. Para alcanzar esa visión, apoyamos a 33 grupos miembros — representando a cientos de miles de trabajadores de alimentos desde los campos hasta las cajas registradoras — para amplificar sus proyectos organizativos, construir sus habilidades de liderazgo, y promover la solidaridad en todo el sistema alimentario.

En los últimos tres años, hemos respondido a los deseos de los miembros de más programación para los trabajadores y organizadores de senioridad para construir habilidades, compartir estrategias, y desarrollar proyectos organizativos con el apoyo de los compañeros. El Instituo de Trabajadores de Alimentos Organizando combina los programas existentes con algunos nuevos:

Cohortes basados por sector de alimentos: Los trabajadores de los grupos miembros de FCWA aprenden y comparten estrategias organizativas, planificación de campañas y habilidades de análisis de poder. Las reuniones son lideradas por el personal de FCWA y una gama de oradores invitados.

Compañerismo de Organizadores Miembros: Los Trabajadores y organizadores de los miembros grupos de FCWA expanden su trabajo bajo la orientación de nuestro personal, y reciben fondos para dedicar un día por semana a un proyecto organizativo importante para su sector.

Capacitaciones para los Organizadores de Senioridad: Capacitaciones únicas sobre herramientas de estrategia y de organización para organizadores con más experiencia. Los próximos temas incluyen superar las represalias del empleador y mapeo de la cadena de distribución de suministros.

Realizando estos programas virtualmente los haces más accesibles a los trabajadores y nos permite convocar a participantes de toda Norte America. Proveemos iPads, epicentros de conexión inalámbrica, apoyo de tecnología, interpretación de lenguaje, y estipendios para los trabajadores para asegurar la facilidad de acceso.

Como una alianza de grupos de trabajadores organizando en toda la cadena alimenticia, tenemos una única oportunidad para crear una formación de trabajadores organizadores para conectar con el movimiento general de alimentos y realizar cambios significativos en nuestro sistema de alimentos. Esté atento para más actualizaciones de estos espacios y ¡revise el blog de FCWA para conocer a nuestros Becarios Miembros de 2023!

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Meet our 2023 Member Organizer Fellows

Mon, 04/24/2023 - 11:55

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In 2021, FCWA launched our new Member Organizer Fellowship Program to support a cohort of organizers and senior worker leaders anchored in our member groups. Fellows are funded to spend one day per week on organizing projects important to their sector or organization. They convene monthly for peer-to-peer learning and to get support from FCWA’s staff organizing team. Projects from our 2022 Member Organizer Fellows included: storytelling workshops for workers; building a safehouse for injured workers; documenting injured worker testimonies; and mapping the web of warehouse companies, logistics companies, and staffing agencies within the food system. We can’t wait to see what this year’s fellows will do!

Meet the 2023-2024 Member Organizer Fellows:

Nita Carter
Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights
Nita Michelle Carter is a native of Greenville, MS, born and raised in the Delta. I am a mother of three with two grandchildren. A fun fact about me is that I am a people person and love to cook. I graduated from Mississippi Valley State with a Social Work Degree. I am currently attending Walden University for Leadership Management. I have worked in various restaurants and know the danger of being in an unsafe and unhealthy environment. Working with FCWA members will allow me to engage and work with others across the globe, this will give me the chance to further improve lives in my community for safety. What inspires me to be a member of the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights and work with FCWA is not to fix all the problems but to be a rising leader to motivate and guide others, facilitate the problem-solving and decision-making processes, and innovate to benefit the community itself.

 

Martha Hernández
Venceremos
I am Martha Hernández, I am originally from Morelia, Michoacan, I am an ex-employee of Tyson and I have been supporting the workers for the last 10 years. I also went through difficult circumstances in Tyson and that is why I got involved, supporting workers and telling my story. I have been supporting Venceremos and continue to support them since the organization started with a group of women. Right now I am receiving training on how to talk to poultry workers and thinking about how to attract them and motivate them so that they know their rights and know that there is a place of support for them.

 

 

 

Maira Martínez
Workers’ Center of Central NY
My name is Maira Martínez, I am originally from Guatemala. I immigrated to the United States in 2018 with my family. I have worked in the agriculture industry and selling food. Since 2020 I have been a member of the Workers’ Center of Central NY (WCCNY). The WCCNY is a membership, farm, and city worker organization that facilitates worker empowerment and leadership development. I have participated in various campaigns such as fighting for immigration reform. I got involved in the state campaign to form a fund for excluded workers and health care for all immigrants. I have also participated in wage theft and anti-retaliation campaigns. I am now part of a leadership committee tasked with planning campaigns that benefit farm workers in NY. My project in this FCWA program focuses on consulting with dairy workers on housing issues. In the coming months I will be conducting a survey gathering data on housing issues, and documenting the vision that workers have for fair housing.

 

Jesus Mendoza
Alianza Agrícola
My name is Jesus Mendoza. I am a farm worker. I have been part of Alianza Agrícola for 4 years and am currently a member of the steering committee of leaders of the organization. Alianza Agrícola is an organization made up of farmworkers. I got involved in Alianza because it is an organization that strives to support the immigrant community throughout the state of New York. Alianza members participate in and lead educational and community campaign efforts and we collaborate with organizations across the state. Over the past few years, Alianza Agrícola and its partners have won victories that guarantee driver’s licenses to all New York State residents, improve working conditions for farmworkers, and protect their right to organize. I am happy to be part of Alianza Agrícola, because together we can achieve many things and win respect and equality for immigrant workers.

My project in the FCWA member organizer fellowship program is to start the initial steps of developing a worker-owned cooperative for dairy workers. Through the program, I plan to do interviews with FCWA members who have developed similar cooperatives to learn from their experience. I hope to develop a plan of action for Alianza Agricola members as we develop this long-term dream and project to have dairy workers, who have so much experience and knowledge, running a worker-owned dairy that creates just and sustainable jobs.

 

 

¡Conozca a nuestros becarios organizadores miembros de 2023!

En octubre de 2021, FCWA lanzó el nuevo Programa de becas para organizadores de miembros para apoyar a un grupo de organizadores y líderes de trabajadores anclados en nuestras organizaciones miembros. Las y los participantes reciben fondos para pasar un día a la semana trabajando en la organización de proyectos importantes para su organización o sector. Se reúnen mensualmente para compartir y aprender entre grupo y para obtener el apoyo del equipo organizador del FCWA.

Los proyectos del primer grupo de Miembros Organizadores Becarios en 2022 incluyeron: talleres de narración de historias para trabajadores, construcción de una casa de seguridad para trabajadores lesionados, documentación de testimonios de trabajadores lesionados y mapeo de la red de empresas de almacenamiento, empresas de logística y agencias de personal dentro del sistema alimentario. ¡Estamos ansiosos por ver qué harán estos nuevos becarios!

Nita Carter
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
Nita Michelle Carter es nativa de Greenville, MS, nacida y criada en el Delta. Soy madre de tres hijos con dos nietos. Un hecho divertido sobre mí es que soy una persona sociable y me encanta cocinar. Me gradué de Mississippi Valley State con un título de trabajo social. Actualmente estoy asistiendo a la Universidad de Walden para la Gestión de Liderazgo. He trabajado en varios restaurantes y conozco el peligro de estar en un ambiente inseguro e insalubre. Trabajar con miembros de FCWA me permitirá involucrarme y trabajar con otros en todo el mundo, esto me dará la oportunidad de mejorar aún más la vida en mi comunidad por seguridad.  Lo que me inspira a ser miembro del Centro de Trabajadores de Mississippi por los Derechos Humanos no es solucionar todos los problemas, sino ser un líder en ascenso para motivar y guiar a otros, facilitar los procesos de resolución de problemas y toma de decisiones, e innovar para beneficiar a los demás comunidad misma.

 

Martha Hernández
Venceremos
Yo soy Martha Hernández,  soy originaria de Morelia Michoacán.  Soy una ex-trabajadora de Tyson. He estado apoyando los trabajadores desde hace 10 años.  Yo tambien pase por circunstancias difíciles en Tyson por eso me involucraba apoyando. Y viajado aparte con los trabajadores contando mi historia. Sigo apoyando a Venceremos desde que se inició con un grupo de mujeres. Ahorita estoy recibiendo entrenamiento de cómo hablar con trabajadores avícolas y pensando de qué manera atraerlos y motivarlos para que ellos conozcan sus derechos y sepan que hay un lugar de apoyo para ellos.

 

 

 

Maira Martínez
Workers Center of Central NY
Mi nombre es Maira Martínez soy originaria de Guatemala. Emigre a los Estados Unidos en el 2018 con mi familia. He trabajado en la industria de la agricultura y vendiendo comida. Desde el 2020 he sido miembro del Centro de Trabajadores de NY Central (WCCNY). El WCCNY es una organización de miembros, trabajadores del campo y de ciudad que facilita el empoderamiento de los trabajadores y el desarrollo de liderazgo.

He participado en varias campañas como luchar por una reforma migratoria. Participe en la campaña estatal para formar un fondo de trabajadores excluidos, y colabore en la campaña estatal para ganar servicios de salud para inmigrantes. Tambien he participado en campañas de robo de salario y despido injustificado.

Ahora soy parte de un comité de liderazgo encargado de planear campañas que beneficien a trabajadores y trabajadoras del campo en NY. Mi proyecto en este programa del FCWA se enfoca en consultar con trabajadores de lechería sobre los problemas de la vivienda. En los próximos meses voy a realizar una consulta recabando datos de los problemas de las viviendas, y  documentando la visión que los trabajadores tienen para una vivienda justa.

 

Jesus Mendoza
Alianza Agrícola
Mi nombre es Jesus Mendoza. Soy un trabajador agrícola. Formo parte de una organización que se llama Alianza Agrícola, desde hace 4 años y a la fecha formo parte del gabinete de lideres de la organización.

Alianza Agrícola es una organización formada por trabajadores agrícolas. Me involucre en Alianza porque es una organización que se esfuerza en apoyar a la comunidad inmigrante en todo el estado de Nueva York, los miembros de Alianza participamos y lideramos esfuerzos de campañas educativas y comunitarias, colaboramos con organizaciones de todo el estado..En los últimos años, la Alianza y sus socios obtuvimos victorias que garantizan licencias de conducir para todos los residentes en el estado de Nueva York, mejoran las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores agrícolas y protegen su derecho a organizarse.

Me siento feliz de formar parte de Alianza Agrícola, porque se juntos podemos lograr muchas cosas y que la comunidad inmigrante tenga respeto e igualdad ante la sociedad.

Mi proyecto en el programa es comenzar los pasos iniciales para desarrollar una cooperativa que sea propiedad de los trabajadores lecheros. A través del programa, planeo hacer entrevistas con miembros de FCWA que hayan desarrollado cooperativas similares para aprender de su experiencia. Espero desarrollar un plan de acción para los miembros de Alianza Agrícola a medida que desarrollamos este sueño y proyecto a largo plazo de tener trabajadores lecheros, que tienen tanta experiencia y conocimiento, administrando una lechería propiedad de los trabajadores que crea empleos justos y sostenibles.

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