by Emith Escobar | Aug 25, 2023 | Community
Buzzing for Change: Justice for Jollibee Wokers Beneath the bee-utiful Jollibee smile, there’s a different kind of buzz. It’s not the sizzle of crispy chicken or grilled pineapple from the Aloha Burger– it’s the sound of Jollibee workers standing up...
by Emith Escobar | Jun 26, 2023 | Community
Festival for Clean Water Imagine going to the grocery store and seeing 3 different types of water, drinking, cleaning/cooking, baby formula. And then imagine having to decide if you’ll have one of these three options and having to cut a large portion of your...
by Emith Escobar | Jun 20, 2023 | Community
El Hormiguero's First Annual Convention Summer is here and El Hormiguero is ready to kick some butt! Recently, we held our first-ever El Hormiguero annual convention. The convention is a huge milestone for us, and we got a chance to go deep into how we’re...
by Emith Escobar | Jun 15, 2023 | Community
EWOC Training Day On June 10, Brandworkers Executive Director Gabriel Morales and Organizer Cody Eaton served as trainers for the first-ever in-person Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) training workshop in NYC. Dozens of workers across industries...
by Emith Escobar | May 8, 2023 | Community
Writers Guild of America Nationwide Strike Kicks-off in NYC and Los Angeles After six weeks of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) who represent the owners of Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC...
by Emith Escobar | May 2, 2023 | Community
Workers Memorial Day in New Brunswick, New Jersey The event was attended by a local coalition of labor leaders such as the NJ Work Environment Council, rank and file sanitation workers, United Steelworkers District 4, Rutgers University Union Coalition, Laundry...