Thursday, July 25, 2013

These women are SERIOUS!!



Meet Maritza Casarez and Carolina Portillo who work for ROC - Restaurant Opportunities Center.  ROC was born in Chicago in 2007. After 9/11, a New York Chapter was organized to provide support to the restaurant workers who were displaced. ROC-NY leads restaurant workplace justice campaigns, provides job training and placement, conducts research and policy work --- and even has its own cooperative restaurant!

ROC educates restaurant workers all over New York City and advocates for improving working conditions. There are free training courses for restaurant workers in “Front of the House” – including Customer Service, Server Training, Specialty Coffee /Barista and NYC Food Protection Course and Certification  as well as “Back of the House” – Pastry Arts, Basic Cooking, Edible Arrangements  and NYC Food Protection Course.

It is responsible for winning 13 workplace justice campaigns against restaurants and gaining millions of dollars in improvements in workplace policies for restaurant workers.

Did you know? The minimum wage for food industry workers has been the same for 22 years! 

Learn more about ROC – a Coalition Agency at:     http://rocny.org/

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