| Founded | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Type | Workers Rights, Non-profit |
| Location | |
| Services | Workplace Organizing Training |
| Affiliations | Progressive International |
| Website | Brandworkers.org |
Brandworkers is a non-profit organization of food factory workers building a union with the Industrial Workers of the World. Through co-workers uniting, food factory workers are organizing to win dignified jobs and build power across the industry. Based in New York City, Brandworkers was founded in 2007 by a group of retail and food employees engaged with workers' rights issues. Brandworkers trains workers in the use of social change tools to achieve employer compliance with the law and improve working conditions.
Issues
Brandworkers campaigns and services are focused on the issues of wage theft, including minimum wage & overtime; immigrant labor; employment discrimination; occupational health & safety; workers compensation; and the right to organize.
Campaigns
Brandworkers has assisted workers organizing against wage theft and discrimination at food manufacturing companies and warehouses, including campaigns at Wild Edibles, Pur Pac and Flaum Appetizing, winning a number of settlements over unpaid wages.
See also
References
- "Members". Progressive International. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- "About Us". Brandworkers International. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- Greenhouse, Steven (January 20, 2010). "Wild Edibles Settles With Workers' Group Pushing Boycott". New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- Kapp, Trevor (August 19, 2011). "Immigrants win $470,000 settlement for wage fight from Pur Pac, major Chinese restaurant supplier". New York Daily News. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
- Massey, Daniel (2011-08-21). "Food industry: promise, problems". Crains New York. Retrieved 21 September 2012.