Jose Oliva is the Campaigns Director at HEAL Food Alliance and Director of the Chicago Area Food System Fund. Jose was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a national coalition of food-worker organizations that collectively represents over 350,000 workers. He is a 2017 James Beard Award recipient and a 2018 American Food Hero Awardee. Tune in to learn more about:
– Jose’s upbringing in Guatemala and his family’s story of being persecuted and fleeing the country;
– Jose’s and his mom’s experience working in the food system and the sad truth why food workers are the lowest paid;
– Why labor is mostly left out when talking about food and agriculture;
– About the Food Chain Workers Alliance, their work and projects;
– About the Glass Floor Study on sexual harassment in the restaurant industry;
– Who owns the food system and their roots back to slavery;
– The minimum wage issue;
– The current pandemic and the consequences for food workers;
To learn more about Jose’s work go to https://healfoodalliance.org and https://foodchainworkers.org.