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✊ Food worker exploitation is not inevitable.

Our #FoodWork report sets out 5 priorities for change:

✊ Build worker power
⚖️ Secure decent work
🛂 Equal rights for migrant workers
🏢 Rein in corporate power
❤️ Value food work

4/4 But exploitation is not inevitable.

When food workers organize, they win better pay, safer workplaces & stronger rights.

Good food should never depend on poverty wages, unsafe work or invisible labour.

1/ Who are the workers behind the food on our plates? What is that work really like?

1.4 billion people work across food systems – the world’s largest workforce. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector. #FoodWork

Our food systems cannot function without workers. So why are so many exploited?

Low pay. Unsafe work. Insecure jobs. Wage theft. Forced labour.

Our new #FoodWork report exposes the exploitation running through the global food chain, and how to end it.

⚒️ Behind every meal is someone’s work. But what is that work really like?

1.4 billion people work in food systems – yet no other sector exploits more workers.

Our new #FoodWork report exposes why: exploitation is built into the system.

🚨 NEW REPORT: The world’s largest workforce is also its most exploited.

1.4 billion people – 2 in 5 workers worldwide – work in food systems. Yet food systems exploit more workers than any other sector.

Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what is that work really like?

📆 Join us on 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across global food chains.

What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all?

📢Who really keeps the world fed?

On 5 Oct, we launch #FoodWork, our major new report exposing exploitation across global food chains.

Join @rajpatel.org, @deschuttero.bsky.social & labour advocates… what will it take to make food work dignified work?