Join me for this starting at noon ET! We'll hear from leaders in the Guatemalan workers' union as well as advocates in the US about how we took on an opaque, private equity-backed fashion brand - & won! Consider it your dose of good news for the day. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Trump’s top economic advisor now says the October jobs report will be released, it just won't have the unemployment rate.

Starbucks baristas, who have been negotiating their first contract for over a year and half now, say they are dealing with low pay that leaves them dependent on SNAP and Medicaid, and dire understaffing that's led to overwork for them and long wait times for customers labornotes.org/2025/10/stri...

‼️Critical message in this moment: The Trump admin isn't deporting farmworkers to give their jobs to citizens. They want black and brown immigrants to do this work, they just don't want them to live in the U.S. or have U.S. labor protections: time.com/7328779/h2a-...

🌲🌉 Last week we wrapped up an inspiring annual summit in Portland, thanks to our awesome members and local co-hosts @bvwu.bsky.social and New Seasons Labor Union! Learn about the BVWU and NSLU contract fights and the rest of an amazing member meet-up on our blog: foodchainworkers.org/2025/11/2025...

Sunday, October 26! FCWA member groups from across the country will gather in downtown Portland to stand in solidarity with the Portland Labor Movement and call for a new contract Burgerville Workers Union and New Seasons Labor Union! Meet us at 3:30pm in Chapman Square ✊🏼❤️

Please join me in giving if you can. If not, shares also appreciated. This is a union comrade’s friend. Alejandro Guizar Lozano was taken by ICE and his family needs support. Donations will go toward his legal defense and support his family's well-being during this tough time. gofund.me/9dde16d23

When the #TrumpAdministration proposed a rule change stripping #MinimumWage protections from home care workers, 5,553 people and organizations submitted comments against the rule rollback. Learn more about why these #workers spoke up at @Truthout: truthout.org/articles/tru... #CareCantWait

absolutely chilling lede in @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social story today: "What kind of police go around without license plates?" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

🛒 Reverse the cuts to SNAP benefits! This morning, our members joined a rally to protest the Trump administration’s $187 billion to SNAP – the largest cut EVER to the federal gov’s food assistance program. ✊We demand the administration reverse these cuts & fund SNAP when people need it most .

FCWA member leader @chrisramsaroop.bsky.social on workers and #HeatStress: "Within hours, workers fainted and vomited, while supervisors worried only about the plants. Another day, Jeremiah himself had to be carried out on a cart after collapsing." www.commondreams.org/opinion/work...

Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say — a move Israel has attempted to justify by blaming Hamas for supposedly violating the deal that Palestinians have said Israel is working to sabotage.

ICE’s Use of a Full-Body Restraint on Immigrants, Referred to as ‘the Burrito’, Raises Concerns Over Inhumane Treatment | The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and torture.

"Awareness has grown within the CGIL and among Italian workers of the connection between the genocide in Palestine and the larger political picture... Many European governments are pushing for rearmament and taking a more authoritarian stance—to the detriment of working people."

“If wages drop even more, it won’t be worth it to pick apples.” The DoL sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H2A workers every year to be above min. wage so that local workers paid min. wage aren't displaced. Today it's $19.94 in CA. Trump will cut it to $13.90. ⬇️ www.thenation.com/article/econ...

“Even if people aren’t (immediately) deportable, they are subjecting them to such harsh conditions that they’re hoping that they will just choose to leave,” said Jessica Maxwell, executive director of the Workers' Center of Central New York. “It’s a tactic."

"The Trump administration’s attacks on birthright citizenship do not just threaten immigrant communities. They strike at the very heart of Indigenous sovereignty. They threaten to bring back an era of termination and removal." #IndigenousPeoplesDay truthout.org/articles/nat...

The government gave immigration enforcement a $170 BILLION budget increase so they could do exactly what we're seeing in Chicago: drop from helicopters to drag children out of their beds and zip tie them, tear gas crowds, shoot people (two so far), and detain an alderperson for asking questions.

H-2A employers legally must post their jobs in the US before offering them abroad. Foreign workers here legally to work are being detained, now there's nobody to work the fields. If US doesn't want the job & won't let H-2A do it, it won't get done. "The fear is here" www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Gaza is facing its darkest phase: starvation, isolation, and relentless attacks. Families are losing everything, children are at extreme risk, and aid is blocked. We cannot look away. Yousef Aljamal reports from July of this year.

Trump Administration Eases Application Process and Lowers Wages for Guest Farmworkers Read more from the Food Policy Tracker ➡️ buff.ly/AEmxRTR

🫵 The Food Chain Workers Alliance is looking for an organizer to join our small, remote staff team! Are you an experienced grassroots organizer with a passion for workers' rights? Learn more at the #LinkInBio and send inquiries to: [email protected]

"One of the most devastating aspects of the ongoing Israeli campaign has been the phenomenon of what locals call the use of remote-controlled “robots” rigged with explosives and sent into dense built-up areas to be detonated, causing widespread destruction."

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

Three ICE detainees were shot this morning. One has died, bringing the 2025 death toll of ICE detainees to at least 16. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🫵 The Food Chain Workers Alliance is looking for an organizer to join our small, remote staff team! Are you an experienced grassroots organizer with a passion for workers' rights? Learn more at the #LinkInBio and send inquiries to: [email protected]

Guadalupe & Emanuel Diaz are farmworkers and organizers with @migrantjustice.bsky.social, imprisoned in an immigration detention center after being pulled off the street by ICE while they were apparently looking for someone else. 📝Sign the petition to free them: migrantjustice.net/news/free-fa...

Our fall 2025 cohort of worker leaders is underway! 16 food workers are connecting across sectors and regions of North America to build their organizing skills with the FCWA organizing team. Because when frontline workers are empowered to organize, they can win! More at #LinkInBio

📢 WE'RE HIRING: Are you an experienced grassroots organizer with a passion for workers' rights? You might be the next FCWA Organizer! Check out the job description on our website: foodchainworkers.org/2025/09/hiri...

One of the largest workplace raids of 2025 was last week in Cato, NY when ICE took ~70 people from a protein bar factory. Detainees are currently in Border Patrol stations in Oswego, where they're "not allowed to see or speak to anyone outside...not even a lawyer." www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

We are outraged by the recent raid in Cato, NY. Shame on the Cayuga & Oswego county sheriffs for collaborating with ICE to tear families apart and wreak havoc on their own communities. We need #NY4All to end this disgraceful use of our tax dollars. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

Israel has taken massive steps toward annexation of the West Bank in recent months, escalating violent raids in the region, leading to record death tolls, while accelerating illegal settlement expansion. MSF warned in a new report that its field teams are already seeing evidence of ethnic cleansing.

Sign up for the FarmSTAND newsletter for news on the fight for a fair food system! In addition to our monthly newsletters, we let our email list know first about big updates. This is your way to join the movement for a food system that works for all of us. Join ➡️ farmstand.org/signup

On September 3, 1991, a fire broke out at the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. The blaze was caused by a leaking hydraulic line that sprayed flammable fluid near a fryer, igniting a fast-moving fire.

🧵1/8 This week, Air Canada flight attendants, represented by CUPE, went on strike, effectively halting nationwide operations, with picket lines established at airports nationwide. The government proved to be no match for this woman-dominated workforce.

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

Daily Memo: Rapid Responders Beat ICE at Some Home Depot Raids, but Car Washes Keep Getting Rocked @eltragon.bsky.social

DHS announced that it will financially reward local law enforcement agencies that carry out its anti-immigrant agenda, effectively creating an incentive system in which the more people wanted by ICE that an agency abducts, the more money it stands to make. truthout.org/articles/tru...

In 2015, after years of organizing✊🏽, home care #workers won federal #MinimumWage💵 & #overtime protections. Now the #TrumpAdministration wants to roll them back through rule changes⚠️

Six workers died in a Colorado dairy last week. Fathers, sons, husbands. If this happened in any other factory, it’d dominate headlines. At a factory farm, it’s dismissed. This is the deadly cost of ag exceptionalism. Proud of @farmstand.bsky.social's work to end it. www.cpr.org/2025/08/29/c...

Tens of thousands of immigrant workers abducted by ICE. 1M federal workers stripped of collective bargaining rights. Systematic attacks on OSHA, NLRB and BLS. But this #LaborDay, attacks on labor aren't stopping workers from ORGANIZING across the food chain and beyond! 🧵👇

DAILY MEMO: The Horrified Face of a Young Asian Abductee @eltragon.bsky.social

Late last week, we shared the news that Immokalee-area farmworker Marco Antonio Hernández Guevara had been hospitalized after collapsing from heat stroke in Florida’s fields. Today, with heavy hearts, we share the news that Mr. Guevara passed away over the weekend. ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...

No one should have to risk their life just to put food on the table. As global temps continue to rise, food and farm workers are at higher risk of illness and death from heat stress - especially for those who work in fields and poorly cooled spaces like factories and meatpacking warehouses

When working people are protected communities thrive ✨ Heat stress protections NOW for the 28 million working people integral to our communities and essential to our survival! For too long, corporate lobbyists and complicit politicians have put profits over people’s lives 🧵

"Publicly owned grocery stores already exist, serving over a million Americans every day, with prices 25 to 30 percent lower than conventional retail,” write @rajpatel.org and @grocerynerd.bsky.social in an op-ed. "We need more public grocery stores, not fewer.”

Worker Justice Center of New York provides free legal services and Know-Your-Rights education for low-wage workers all across New York. Find out more: www.wjcny.org

📦🔥 Warehouse workers shouldn't have to choose between their health and their job security. That's why the Warehouse Worker Resource Center was instrumental in California's fight for indoor #HeatProtections, which took effect in July 2024. Now we need to extend those same protections to all workers!

Elon successfully got the unfair labor practice suit against SpaceX suspended. “The decision seems to guarantee that companies in the Fifth Circuit — which covers TX, LA, and MS — can get district courts to block unfair labor practice cases by filing constitutional lawsuits against the agency.”

🔥👨🏾‍🌾 The problem with #ExtremeHeat isn't just the temperature: workers get paid less if they take breaks; they aren't provided with sufficient drinkable water; their protective gear makes them hotter. That's why @j4mw.bsky.social is demanding action from the Ontario Ministry of Labour.