food workers

White House Plan Giving Restaurant Owners More Control Over Tips Under Fire

9:56pm February 05, 2018

by Scott Horsley

Monday is the deadline for Americans to comment on the proposal. The Trump administration reportedly suppressed an analysis that found the plan could cost tipped workers billions of dollars a year.

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Maine's lobster fleet has a growing number of women who, like Sadie Samuels, are running their own boats, and busting stereotypes along the way.

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More Women Move Into Maine's Rough And Risky World Of Lobstering

4:15pm August 02, 2017

by Murray Carpenter

Lobstering has traditionally been considered a man's job. But Maine's lobster fleet has a growing number of women who are running their own boats, and busting stereotypes along the way.

Beef sides hang in a chilling room at a slaughterhouse in Nebraska.

We Don't Know How Many Workers Are Injured At Slaughterhouses. Here's Why

5:12pm May 25, 2016

by Grant Gerlock

Injuries in the meat industry are likely to be under-reported, a new GAO report finds. Workers may be sent back to the line without seeing a doctor, or may not report out of fear of losing their jobs.

Florida tomato pickers' fight for fair wages and better working conditions became a topic at Wednesday night's Democratic debate in Miami between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

Florida Tomato Pickers Become Part Of Democratic Debate

8:06pm March 10, 2016

by Maria Godoy

The fight to improve wages and working conditions hit the national stage over the past week, both in a Bernie Sanders campaign video and Wednesday night's debate in Miami.

Protesters gather at a McDonald's to ask for higher wages on April 15, 2015 in Miami Gardens, Fla. Food labor advocate Saru Jayaraman writes in a new book that the company has taken the "low road" and lobbied extensively for lower wages and working condit

Health & Safety

'Forked' Rates Restaurants On How They Treat Their Workers

3:45pm February 02, 2016

by Tracie McMillan

More restaurants are offering better wages, benefits and working conditions for employees. A new book rates dozens of restaurants and scolds the ones taking the "low road" to profitability.

The Cargill beef processing plant in Fort Morgan, Colo., advertises openings in early January. Some 150 Muslim workers were fired in late 2015 after a dispute over prayer breaks at the plant.

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Dispute Over Prayer Breaks Divides Muslim Meatpacking Workers

5:21pm January 14, 2016

by Luke Runyon

The conversation about religious accommodation in the workplace is playing out in a rural Colorado meatpacking town where Muslim workers at a Cargill plant were fired over prayer breaks.

The vast majority of reported cases of norovirus — the leading cause of foodborne disease outbreaks and illnesses across the country — have been linked to infected food industry workers.

Survey: Half Of Food Workers Go To Work Sick Because They Have To

8:13pm October 19, 2015

by Lynne Shallcross

Sick food workers who go to work say they can't afford to stay home or don't want to let their co-workers down, a survey finds. That puts consumers at risk of getting sick from contaminated food.

Bakers pose for a photo at the Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, N.Y. For more than 30 years, the industrial facility has been hiring local residents, including people other businesses might consider unhirable.

Economy

No Resume? Criminal Background? No Problem At This Yonkers Bakery

3:48pm May 27, 2015

by Here & Now Staff

Social justice is part of the recipe at New York's Greyston Bakery. The firm, whose clients include Ben & Jerry's, hires locals whose legal status or work history might otherwise make them unhirable.

This label was released in October 2014 by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for the Fair Food Program.

National

Florida Tomato Pickers' Wins Could Extend To Dairy, Berry Workers

11:10am December 13, 2014

by Tracie McMillan

In the last four years, 30,000 tomato pickers covered by a "fair food" program got a 50-to-70 percent pay raise. Advocates are now working with retailers and other industries to duplicate the model.

Demonstrators from the Fast Food Forward rally protest Thursday outside a Wendy's restaurant in New York City.

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NYC's Fast-Food Workers Strike, Demand 'Living Wages'

8:20pm April 04, 2013

by Joel Rose

Fast-food workers in New York City are on strike for the second time in six months, demanding higher wages that they can live on. Workers complain that $7.25 an hour, New York's current minimum wage, is not enough to live in the city.

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