State and local strategies for building worker power: California’s FAST Recovery Act

Fast food workers are organizing to raise wages and standards in an industry known for wage theft and other widespread worker rights violations. The California FAST Recovery Act (AB 257) would establish a statewide Fast Food Sector Council made up of workers, employers, and state officials that would meet regularly to set industry standards on wages, work hours, and other conditions for fast-food workers.

Join EPI experts for discussion with fast food workers, union leaders, and state legislators, about how proposed sectoral councils could work to set industry-wide standards, and the potential for standards boards to change balance of power between workers and employers in fast food and beyond.

Who:

Joseph Bryant, President, SEIU Local 1021
Angelica Hernandez, McDonald’s worker and leader in Fight for $15 and a Union
Naomi Walker, Vice President, Economic Policy Institute
Jen Sherer, Senior State Policy Coordinator, EARN Worker Power Project, Economic Policy Institute

When: Wednesday, April 13, 2021, 4:30–6:00 p.m. ET, 1:30–3:00 p.m. PT

Where: Zoom

From the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
www.epi.org