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Restorative Economy Entity: Research Center
What is the Policy Research Collaborative?
The PRC is working with the Chicago Food Policy Action Council and other worker organization and research partners, to build conversations around transforming the food system. In this project, developing workshops and conversations with food chain workers, we aim to co-create ideal impact goals with food chain workers and related labor organizations that represent and/or support experiences and aspirations of workers in the food supply chain. In this project, we conduct outreach with labor organizations and workers and explore and strategize with labor organizations and food workers to support workplace organizing, and identify and build relationships with and among food chain workers across sectors. Specifically cultivate opportunities for workers to transitions to self/collective-determination models for workers in the food sector. In part, this will include identifying gaps in the local food mobilization system, as well as building pathways for workers to own and/or control community-driven, justice-centering farms and food businesses, as well as pathways to employee-owned models (ESOPs and worker cooperative ownership). This weave in and leverages the metropolitan Chicago Good Food Purchasing Initiative for this work.
Restorative Economy Entity: Research Center
What is the Policy Research Collaborative?
The PRC is working with the Chicago Food Policy Action Council and other worker organization and research partners, to build conversations around transforming the food system. In this project, developing workshops and conversations with food chain workers, we aim to co-create ideal impact goals with food chain workers and related labor organizations that represent and/or support experiences and aspirations of workers in the food supply chain. In this project, we conduct outreach with labor organizations and workers and explore and strategize with labor organizations and food workers to support workplace organizing, and identify and build relationships with and among food chain workers across sectors. Specifically cultivate opportunities for workers to transitions to self/collective-determination models for workers in the food sector. In part, this will include identifying gaps in the local food mobilization system, as well as building pathways for workers to own and/or control community-driven, justice-centering farms and food businesses, as well as pathways to employee-owned models (ESOPs and worker cooperative ownership). This weave in and leverages the metropolitan Chicago Good Food Purchasing Initiative for this work.