Updates

2022 Highlights

by | December 20, 2022 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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...
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Our Year in Review

by | December 28, 2021 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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...
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Meet Brandworkers’ new Executive Director | Conoce al nuevo Director Ejecutivo de Brandworkers

by | September 14, 2021 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

*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...
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Spring 2021 Highlights

by | June 18, 2021 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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...
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Winter 2021 Highlights

by | March 11, 2021 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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.

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Brandworkers Statement on Coronavirus

by | March 17, 2020 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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,...
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Preparing for ICE Workplace Audits: An Organizing Approach | Preparación para Auditorías de ICE en el Lugar de Trabajo: Un Enfoque Organizativo

by | March 15, 2020 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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?...
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Amy’s Bread Workers Achieve Recognition at the Museum of the City of New York

by | January 16, 2020 | Amy's Bread | 0 Comments

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...
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Remembering Juan Baten as we organize for safe, dignified jobs

by | January 24, 2019 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

Honor Juan Baten’s life by volunteering to support food factory workers organizing for safe, dignified jobs.

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El Hormiguero has been growing! 🐜🐜🐜

by | March 6, 2023 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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...
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Laundry Workers Center’s Los Cabricanecos are continuing to fight for their rights! 🛬🛠

by | March 4, 2023 | Community | 0 Comments

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...
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Starbucks Workers United comrade, Austin, Reinstated to Starbucks Ditmars with Full Backpay!

by | March 1, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...
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Lodi Workers are Organizing with RWU-STR Local 1

by | February 26, 2023 | Community | 0 Comments

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...
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Congratulations to the Brandworkers Staff Union

by | December 15, 2022 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

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Our Winter Quarter Highlights

by | May 3, 2022 | Brandworkers | 0 Comments

Since the late 1800s, we have celebrated May Day as a reminder of the power of workers coming together in solidarity. Each year, new efforts arise to suppress workers' rights, create dangerous workplace conditions and undermine frontline food factory workers. As we...
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Our Winter Quarter Highlights

by | May 3, 2022 |

Since the late 1800s, we have celebrated May Day as a reminder of the power of workers coming together in solidarity. Each year, new efforts arise to suppress workers' rights, create dangerous workplace conditions and undermine frontline food factory workers. As we...

Our Year in Review

by | Dec 28, 2021 |

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...

Spring 2021 Highlights

Spring 2021 Highlights

by | Jun 18, 2021 |

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

Winter 2021 Highlights

by | Mar 11, 2021 |

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.