βWe are trying to have workers become as trendy as local and organic has become in the industry,β Saru Jayaraman, co-director and co-founder of ROC, told us. βItβs going to take the three stakeholders – workers, good employers, and consumers – working together to actually change things.”
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Harvesting Justice 13: We Have a Dream – Farm Workers Organize for Justice
For decades, farmworkers β the more than one million men and women who work in fields and orchards around the country β have been leading a struggle for justice in our food system. They have been building awareness and mobilizing the public, successfully securing some rights, higher wages, and better working conditions.