Saru Jayaraman – The Great Revolution: What A Worker Power Moment Can Mean for Climate Justice
Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center and author of four books including: One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America, is one of the most creative and effective labor organizers of our era. In this talk, she describes her work organizing restaurant and other low-wage workers over the last 20 years and the incredible moment of historic worker revolt currently underway in the United States, one that could have enormous implications for both climate justice and for our democracy.
This talk was delivered at the 2023 Bioneers Conference.
Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, co-founded (after 9/11) the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. She then launched One Fair Wage as a national campaign to end all sub-minimum wages in the United States. Saru has won many prestigious awards for her advocacy, is frequently interviewed on major media and is the author of four books including: One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America and Bite Back: People Taking on Corporate Food and Winning.
Learn more about Saru Jayaraman and her work at One Fair Wage.
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Saru Jayaraman: How Restaurant Workers Are Inheriting a Legacy of Slavery in the U.S.
Watch and read excerpts from Saru Jayaraman’s talk at Bioneers 2017, in which she delivered a passionate keynote about restaurant workers’ rights and the tipping economy, which has become increasingly problematic and immoral.
Bioneers Reader: Our Economic Future
Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas
This Bioneers Reader is a collection of pieces presenting wisdom from leading figures in progressive economic thought and action, all dealing with strategies to radically restructure our ever more inequitable, racist and environmentally devastating economic system.
