Today is International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day. It’s a day to honor the fight for safe, fair, and dignified working conditions for people. This International Workers’ Day, we stand with food workers who have lost their health and lives in the struggle for justice.
Factory farms and large-scale processing plants are unsafe, unhealthy, and stressful environments. Whether it’s subjecting workers to harmful pollution and dangerous working conditions, or pushing sick people to come to work, Big Ag corporations are more motivated to protect their bottom lines than protect people.
On top of that, regulations to prevent workplace injuries have not kept pace with the rapid growth of the factory farm system.
Food & Water Watch supports the rights of all workers and has been mobilizing for years to stop Big Ag from exploiting and endangering workers.
We work to hold corporations accountable and demand public agencies like the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OHSA) do the jobs they were created to do: protect workers and enforce policies that create safer working conditions. We support and encourage critical legislation in Congress like the Farm System Reform Act and the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act.
We are hopeful in this fight. Why? Because our current food system is not inevitable. This is all part of Big Ag’s long-standing pattern of disregard for both worker and food safety. We have a critical opportunity to make our food system work fairly for everyone.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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