Guide Lists Worker-Friendly San Francisco Restaurants
Young Workers United (YWU) members issued their second annual edition of “Dining With Justice,” which highlights food establishments that follow labor laws and treat their employees with dignity and respect.
The San Francisco-based group released the updated guide on May Day, as members participate in May Day marches in support of workers’ rights.
Because of the recession, restaurant owners and managers have a greater incentive to increase profits by cutting corners with food quality, health and safety and labor rights, YWU says.
As a result, most restaurant workers have been victims of wage theft. They may not receive overtime pay or breaks, or are forced to work off the clock. Workers have been increasingly apprehensive of speaking out about work grievances, fearing job loss and prolonged unemployment.
YWU presented awards to restaurant owners who care not only about the food they serve but also the people they employ. To determine the winners, YWU surveyed workers and employers in 35 restaurants in a variety of price ranges throughout San Francisco.
Check out the “Dining With Justice” guide here.
Tens of Thousands March for Workers’ Rights, Immigration Reform
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Across the country, tens of thousands marched and rallied May 1, May Day, to call for national immigration reform and to support all workers’ rights. Just as we did on April 4, working people declared: “Somos Unos—Respeten Nuestros Derechos” or “We Are One—Respect Our Rights.”
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told a crowd of about 100,000 in Milwaukee that “May Day is our day to stand together shoulder to shoulder for immigrant and worker rights.”
Gov. Scott Walker…has declared war on Wisconsin workers and, like you did before, you joined in a peaceful protest to say “No! No!” We reject the idea that America can no longer be a great nation and that we’re too broke to treat people fairly. We reject the notion that America can’t be the land of shared prosperity.
The crowd marched 2.5 miles across Milwaukee chanting, “this is what democracy looks like,” “sí, se peude,” “Walker eschuca estamos en la lucha” and “Wisconsin no es Arizona.”
Read Trumka’s entire speech here and click here to read more about the Milwaukee march.
Live Twitter Coverage of May Day Workers’ and Immigrants Rights Rallies
Declaring “Somos Unos—Respeten Nuestros Derechos” or “We Are One—Respect Our Rights,” working people across the country this May Day are rallying to oppose attacks on workers’ rights and immigrant rights.
Follow the action here with our live Twitter feed and make sure your event is covered by tweeting from your action using the hashtag #MayDay.
Some 60,000 workers are coming together in Milwaukee, while hundreds of thousands more are gathering for marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Houston, Boston and dozens of other cities and towns.
These rallies and marches are telling the world that workers’ rights and immigrant rights are connected. CEO-backed politicians are targeting all working people—including immigrants—with their corporate-sponsored political agenda and continuing power grab.
Check back here often for the latest.
Follow Live May Day Coverage at AFL-CIO Now
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Today is May Day and working people across the country will rally to oppose attacks on workers’ rights and immigrant rights. Echoing our nationwide April 4 mobilization, working people will declare:
“Somos Unos—Respeten Nuestros Derechos” or “We Are One—Respect Our Rights.”
You can follow the action with our live Twitter feed at blog.aflcio.org. Join the coverage by tweeting from your action, using the hashtag #MayDay.
These rallies and marches will show workers’ rights and immigrant rights are connected. CEO-backed politicians are targeting all working people—including immigrants—with their corporate-sponsored political agenda and continuing power grab.
In addition to demanding protection for collective bargaining and other workers’ rights, ralliers will call for comprehensive immigration reform and passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide undocumented young people a pathway to legal residency through higher education or service in the military.
May Day Rallies Will Support Workers’ and Immigrant Rights
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This May Day, working people are rallying across the country to oppose attacks on workers’ rights and immigrant rights. Just as we did on April 4, working people will declare: “Somos Unos—Respeten Nuestros Derechos” or “We Are One—Respect Our Rights.”
Workers’ rights and immigrant rights are connected. CEO-backed politicians are targeting all working people—including immigrants—with their corporate-sponsored political agenda and continuing power grab. In addition to demanding protection for collective bargaining and other workers’ rights, ralliers will call for comprehensive immigration reform and passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide undocumented young people a pathway to legal residency through higher education or service in the military.
Holt Baker: Immigration Reform Protects All Workers
Congress must fix our broken immigration system to ensure that all workers’ rights are protected. Otherwise, Arizona’s onerous immigration law could become a model for the country, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker said.
Speaking at the International Workers Day rally May 1 in New York City, Holt Baker reminded the 25,000-strong crowd that Latino workers are at the greatest risk of dying on the job. And the risk is even higher for undocumented workers, who “know that if they report dangers on the job, chances are, they will be torn away from their families and their communities and deported,” she said.
We need an America that guarantees safe workplaces and protects workers’ rights—all workers’ rights—regardless of race, regardless of gender or ethnicity or nationality or immigration status.
May Day: Fight for Workers’ Values
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Today as we celebrate May Day and the birthday of legendary labor advocate Mother Jones, workers and other progressives must think about how we use our values to build a struggle for human sustainability, including a sustainable environment, sustainable jobs, sustainable health and a sustainable economy.
Speaking today before a forum on quality green jobs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stewart Acuff, an assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, says that to successfully accomplish that goal, we must bury forever the falsehood that greed is good and every person is on his or her own.
See, while they told us you are on your own, they did all they could to make it so. While they ignored climate change and global warming and more and more kids with asthma and more and more cancer cases, they were busting our unions, outsourcing and contracting out and privatizing our work, Wal-Marting our economy, telling us we have to compete in a global economy that sends 13-year-old girls to factories and factory dorms and the whims of supervisors in the Caribbean Basin, that murders trade unionists in Colombia, that sends 9- and 10-year-olds to work in Vietnam and Pakistan and uses slave labor in China.
