Updates
2022 Highlights
As we reflect on 2022, Brandworkers’ 15th year as a workers center, we can’t help but look back and see how far we’ve come. The past year has been a period of intense internal and external growth and change at Brandworkers. This growth has only strengthened our vision...
Our Year in Review
Happy new year from the worker-leaders, board of directors, and staff of Brandworkers! Everyone's solidarity is important for NYC-area food factory workers building their own unions with the Industrial Workers of the World. With your support in 2021: Workers at a new...
Meet Brandworkers’ new Executive Director | Conoce al nuevo Director Ejecutivo de Brandworkers
*English Below* Querida comunidad de Brandworkers, La Junta Directiva de Brandworkers se complace en anunciar excelentes noticias relacionadas con la nueva etapa de liderazgo en nuestra organización. Tras un proceso integral de búsqueda y transición, nos enorgullece...
Spring 2021 Highlights
NYC food factory workers are building power across their industry by organizing for dignified jobs. Read below for some of the highlights this spring—organizing at a new food factory, actions workers and allies took in the Tom Cat Bakery campaign for immigrant worker...
Winter 2021 Highlights
With the power of your solidarity, Brandworkers is full of hope for the struggle ahead in 2021. Your support has strengthened the organization of food factory workers building a worker-led union in the local food production industry. Here are some highlights from the past few months.
Brandworkers Statement on Coronavirus
Brandworkers Statement on Coronavirus Local food manufacturing workers are sustaining us through this crisis and they deserve support more than ever before. As people across New York City stock up on the food they’ll need to sustain their families through this crisis,...
Preparing for ICE Workplace Audits: An Organizing Approach | Preparación para Auditorías de ICE en el Lugar de Trabajo: Un Enfoque Organizativo
Preparing for ICE Workplace Audits: An Organizing Approach | Preparación para Auditorías de ICE en el Lugar de Trabajo: Un Enfoque Organizativo Click here for additional resources! ¡Haga clic aquí para obtener recursos adicionales! Have questions? ¿Tienes preguntas?...
Amy’s Bread Workers Achieve Recognition at the Museum of the City of New York
Amy’s Bread CEO breaks her silence by adding classic anti-worker messaging to round out the exhibit. The voice of Amy’s Bread workers has been heard! Visitors to the Museum of the City of New York spotted quite a mismatch: an Amy's Bread cafe right next to the "City...
Remembering Juan Baten as we organize for safe, dignified jobs
Honor Juan Baten’s life by volunteering to support food factory workers organizing for safe, dignified jobs.
El Hormiguero has been growing! 🐜🐜🐜
So far, our El Hormiguero Volunteer Group has grown by 7 new members, 6 of them joining our industrial research team and the other joining our communications team. The industrial researching team dedicates itself to researching, in detail, all aspects of various...
Laundry Workers Center’s Los Cabricanecos are continuing to fight for their rights! 🛬🛠
On May 2nd, 2022 a rainy day in BK, Los Cabricanecos along with a coalition of many community organizations marched to demand that Best Super Clean provide proper personal protective equipment, fair wages, and respect. Los Cabricanecos, organizing with the Laundry...
Starbucks Workers United comrade, Austin, Reinstated to Starbucks Ditmars with Full Backpay!
Starbucks workers at the Ditmars Boulevard location in Astoria and allies rallied outside the store Monday morning, February 27 to celebrate the reinstatement of long-time employee and leader in the store’s unionization efforts Austin Locke, who the store illegally...
Lodi Workers are Organizing with RWU-STR Local 1
Restaurant Workers Union (RWU-STR) Local 1 and the brave workers at Lodi restaurant are fighting for justice. The Restaurant Workers Union (RWU-STR) Local 1 is a new NYC union that was created after the Covid Pandemic. It was founded by restaurant workers who suffered...