Chicago Public Schools Agrees with Lunch Workers, Moves Toward Fresh Food!
Over the past four months, Chicago’s lunchroom workers have spoken with parents across the city about their vision for the food served to Chicago’s schoolchildren. The workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 1, also took their vision for freshly cooked food to the bargaining table....
VIDEO: Lunchroom Workers Announce Victory for Fresh Food
On May 3, Chicago lunchroom workers announced a major victory in their Let’s Cook campaign. Here is 12-year Chicago school cook Constance Hatchett at the press conference!
Chicago Lunch Workers Hit the Streets, Airwaves for Real Food!
Yesterday, over 200 lunchroom workers gathered outside the Chicago Board of Education chanting, “We want to cook! We want to cook!” The rally was held to release our new report on frozen food in Chicago’s schools. At the end, a delegation of workers attempted to deliver 1500 “Let’s Cook!” petition signatures to Chicago school officials….
Kitchens Without Cooks: Frozen Food for Chicago’s Schoolchildren
Today, Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers, who are members of UNITE HERE Local 1, are releasing a report that highlights the growing amount of frozen and prepackaged food being served in Chicago’s schools. The report, entitled “Kitchens Without Cooks: A future of frozen food for Chicago’s schoolchildren?,” cites frontline lunchroom workers, parents, and students and…
A Crazy Coincidence?
We asked the statistical department of the Real Food Real Jobs campaign (they also do communications, campaigning, organizing, and other miscellaneous tasks) to take a look at the relationship between unionization and food insecurity. After running the data through our gigantic servers powered by unpaid interns on bicycles, they found the following: So starting in…
How to Influence Thousands of Meals Per Day, Every Day, for 15 Years
Every day, most of us make choices about what food we will eat. Our own choices may reach to our children and even to our coworker or roommate who is particularly good at noticing when we’ve got extra leftovers in the fridge. But meanwhile, some people make choices about what food thousands of people will…
