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Chefs with Issues: Immigrants in the kitchen
Chefs with Issues is a platform for chefs and farmers we love, fired up for causes about which they're passionate. John Currence is the chef and owner of City Grocery Restaurant Group in Oxford,...
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Comments: the cost of immigrant kitchen labor
Chef John Currence's recent essay on the use of immigrant labor in restaurant kitchens sparked a debate that's still raging in the article's comments section. Hundreds of people weighed in, and over...
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Vidalia farmers turn to prison system for harvest help after immigration...
Relinda Walker still can't believe what she heard. Incredulity seeps into in her slow Southern drawl as she repeats the price – only 60 cents for a pound of organic Vidalia onions. Incredible. Walker,...
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Opinion: Obama should address child farm labor issues now
Editor's note: Cristina L.H. Traina is a Public Voices Op Ed fellow and professor at Northwestern University, where she is a scholar of social ethics. President Barack Obama should use the breathing...
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Eat out and speak up to help restaurant workers survive
Click to watch video Editor's note: Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, an advocacy organization, director of the UC Berkeley Food Labor Research Center and...
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Sushi hotspot fined for labor violations
Protestors have taken to the streets of Beverly Hills accusing Urasawa, one of the country’s most exclusive and expensive restaurants, of theft. The victims however, are not the well-heeled patrons but...
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Fast food workers strike in 50 cities
Fast food workers in 50 cities across the U.S. are walking off the job Thursday as they protest for higher wages. Organizers say it will be the largest strike to hit the $200 billion fast-food...
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Fast food workers' strike expands
Fast food workers in 60 cities across the U.S. walked off the job Thursday as they protest for higher wages. Workers from fast food giants McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Yum Brands-owned KFC are...
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Fast food protesters wage war on low pay
Fast food protests aren't going away. Organizers say fast food restaurant workers in 100 U.S. cities will walk off the job Thursday, as part of a continuing push to raise wages above $15 an hour in the...
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Union-backed groups pay wages for protesting workers
Karina McClain, a cashier at fast food chain Checkers in New York City, didn't show up for her shift on Thursday. Instead, the 22 year-old joined about 100 other people outside of a Brooklyn Wendy's...
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Do you put your ethics where your mouth is?
The concepts of eating ethically and watching where our food comes from have become hot topics in the food world. CNN’s forthcoming Freedom Project documentary examines the cocoa industry and the work...
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Child cocoa labor: 'everybody's problem but nobody's responsibility'
"So tell me," an old school friend asked, "if the demand for chocolate is so high, why are cocoa farmers so poor?" We were sitting in the local pub, just days after I returned from a trip to the Ivory...
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Subway CEO: 'Our owners have not done the right thing'
Subway CEO Fred DeLuca said this week that "there's no excuse" for workers being paid improperly. His remarks come after CNNMoney published an investigative report last week detailing how Subway is the...
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Opinion: Restaurants - someone's mother works here
Editor's note: Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, and author of...
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Striking worker: 'I am fighting for everyone in fast food'
Fast-food workers walked off their jobs in dozens of cities Thursday, demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Union organizers say the strikes will reach 150 U.S. cities and several countries. CNNMoney...
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McDonald's HQ, hold the workers
McDonald's corporate headquarters near Chicago looks like a ghost town. On the site where fast-food workers planned a wage protest Wednesday, McDonald's confirmed the closing of its headquarters, which...
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Fast food workers: not who you think they are
Older. Educated. A parent. This is the face of today's fast food workers - 70% of whom are over the age of 20, nearly 40% have children and a third of them have spent some time in college, according to...
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