The Checkout

Episode 50: Jon Allen Foster and Tristan Bock-Hughes of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee


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“I’m doing this because I want to guarantee the health and safety of my customers, my team, and myself!” - Jon Allen Foster
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a project of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to build a distributed, grassroots organizing program to support workers organizing at the workplace.
This Episode features Jon Allen Foster, a shift manager at a Taco Bell franchise in Michigan who is organizing his workplace for better wages and safer working conditions. Tristan Hughes is a veteran organizer supporting EWOC campaigners in the workplace on issues such as being treated with dignity, fair scheduling, workplace safety and good compensation.
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