Jayaraman Saru
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October 24, 2012
By Saru Jayaraman and Joann Lo Big Food companies and their lobbying groups have lied to us many times. They convinced Congress to include tomato paste on pizzas as a vegetable . They say we need industrial, chemical-laden agriculture to feed the world (check out Anna Lappé’s new video Food MythBusters to learn that we don’t). And Big Food has also spread the mythology that if the minimum wage is raised, food will become so expensive that none of us will be able to afford to eat out – or eat at all – again. Yes, that’s a lie! On this Food Day 2012 , our organizations are releasing a new...
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April 17, 2012
For hundreds of millions of working women across America, paycheck fairness is about the fact that, on average, women earn about seventy cents for every dollar a man makes. For the more than 5 million women in the restaurant industry, however, paycheck fairness is about that, and much more. In many cases, it’s about getting a paycheck without a sexual favor, and in lots of cases, it’s about getting a paycheck at all. Over the last ten years since 9/11 I’ve co-founded and led a national restaurant workers’ organization, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. And in those ten years I’ve...
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