FOODLINK
UNITED

Foodlink United’s mission is to build and sustain a legally-protected place for Foodlink employees where we can discuss and negotiate over working conditions and collectively take part in improving our workplace. We will enhance Foodlink’s quality of work and advance Foodlink’s core values (Compassion, Innovation, Collaboration, Agility, & Stewardship) and mission by investing in Foodlink United’s values (Transparency, Equity, Courage, Humility, & Solidarity). What we want to win, protect, and prioritize:

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• Fair and transparent compensation, benefits, and promotions

• Adequate training, appropriate workloads, and safe working conditions for every employee

• Improved and legally protected processes of communication with management to resolve issues that impact health and safety in a timely and transparent fashion

• Shifting our culture to involve staff in the decisions that affect our work, professional development, and work-life balance

• Clear, actionable steps to put Foodlink’s language around anti-racism, equity, and inclusion into practice in order to end occupational segregation

• Legal protection and job security that protects us from unjust discipline or firing

• Reversing systemic inequality in our work and promoting solutions offered by staff themselves

• Constant improvement upon the quality of Foodlink’s work

• Create pathways for collective accountability and feedback for our management team

• Strengthening and supporting the core values of the organization: Compassion, Innovation, Collaboration, Agility, & Stewardship

• Solidarity unionism in which workers provide each other support and collectively make decisions

• Moving our organization toward a place where workers and people who experience poverty and hunger define the direction and role of Foodlink.