This Friday, May 10 at 6pm there will be an important forum on sweatshop and labor organizing in Haiti, Honduras and El Salvador. There will also be a report by Virgilio Aran, of the "Hot and Crusty" struggle in NYC, detailing the slave like conditions of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic.

This program is sponsored by the Haiti Anti-Sweatshop Committee.

The Haiti Anti-Sweatshop Committee views the forum as part of an ongoing effort to unite the anti-sweatshop movement in the spirit of labor internationalism. Join us Friday!

Dear Friends,
Take action with the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) as workers continue their struggle for racial and economic justice at The Capital Grille.
For over a year, workers at The Capital Grille have been organizing to change conditions in their workplace, alleging racial discrimination and wage theft, in addition to experiencing other exploitative conditions. Meanwhile, parent company, Darden Restaurants (which also owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden) pulled in over $700 million in profits just last year!

“Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity it has dignity and it has worth… it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

This Sunday, honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and join workers from all over the city to walk the picket line in support of Golden Farm workers. There will be a pumped up picket line (enforcing the neighborhood boycott of the grocery store), music from the amazing Afro-Colombian cumbia band ¡Ay Mayo!, and a worker speakout.

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The Golden Farm workers have stayed strong throughout their fight, week after week, and they couldn’t have kept it up without you-the community-supporting them along the way. As we approach the first round of negotiations between the workers (represented by RWDSU/UFCW Local 338) and the owner Sonny Kim with his lawyer in the final days of November, the workers have asked the community to show our strength on the busiest shopping day of the year.

On November 21st, 2012, the day before Thanksgiving, Kensington community members, workers and allies from all over the city will take to the streets to say “No Thanks, Sonny Kim-we won’t shop until you Give the workers a fair contract and a job with dignity!” We will picket Golden Farm at 329 Church Ave. from 11A-9PM, and all community allies are called to a rally starting at 6PM. Bring your empty pots and pans and show Sonny we won’t be cooking with rotten wages this year.

Join the facebook event here:
http://www.facebook.com/events/245805385548174/

Summer is coming to an end, football season is beginning, but the struggle by Capital Grille workers continues!

Over many months, workers at the upscale steak house, The Capital Grille (owned by billion dollar corporation Darden Restaurants), have been organizing to end exploitation in their workplace. This Labor Day week, join the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) as we take action in support of The Capital Grille workers that are part of the Dignity at Darden campaign.