California Fast Food Worker Convening

Over 300 California Fast Food workers gathered in Sacramento in August of 2023 to ratify their core demands and to continue to apply pressure for fast food corporations to drop the referendum on AB257, and give fast food workers their deserved seat at the table.

We Can’t Survive on $7.25: New Exhibit Commemorates 10 Years of Game-Changing Fight for $15 and a Union

We Can’t Survive on $7.25, is an exhibition commemorating 10 years of the groundbreaking Fight for $15 and a Union movement, will open June 5 at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies in Midtown. It is built around art that workers carried on strike lines in their decade-long fight for higher pay and a union that transformed the politics of the country and has been a driving force for higher pay and unions for all and against systemic racism, sexual harassment and the failure to protect workers during a global pandemic.

USSW Worker Power Summit

Service workers from across the South gathered in Columbia, SC to form the new Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW). The three day Summit consisted of worker leaders and organizers taking the stage to speak about their working conditions and the power of a union. The Union commissioned original artworks from Southern artists, flags and banners, and integrated art activities facilitated by Roses Too.

Dia de Los Muertos Altar at San Jose City Hall

Workers gathered to honor the lives and legacy of fellow fast food workers, Jasmine Hernandez, Blanquita Rosell, Mirna Diaz and Berta Montes.

When We Fight, We Win!

When We Fight, We Win! is an exhibition that reflects on the power of organized labor through the lens of artworks deployed on the frontlines of the fast food workers movement.  This show coincides with the passage of landmark labor law AB257 which gives fast food workers a voice in setting labor standards across the state. 

When We Fight, We Win! is hosted by Round Weather Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery committed to alleviating the climate crisis.  It directs funds raised through the sale of exceptional contemporary art to three organizations selected each year for their effectiveness in climate change mitigation.  The gallery celebrates and utilizes the connective imagination, innovation, and courage of the art world, qualities required to counteract the destructive reshaping of global weather.

Actions at the State Capitol

Fast food workers from across the state held a 24-hour vigil on the Capitol lawn as a direct-action effort to pressure California legislators to pass the historic AB257 bill.

Over the course of summer 2022, several other actions took place in Sacramento. Banners, flags, screenprinting, postcards, and other artworks were deployed.