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Choose Compassionate Consumption Resources
Listed here are resource materials that provide additional information about UUSC topics and areas of work. You'll find materials such as fact sheets, policy positions, slideshows, curricula and training materials, publications, and links to other organizations and news sources.
Title | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Frequently Asked Questions about Restaurant Workers | Frequently asked questions about the minimum wage, tips, discrimination, and the restaurant industry. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Report: The Hands That Feed Us | The Hands That Feed Us: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers Along the Food Chain is the first report of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Shoppers' Resources | Guides and resources to help consumers research products, weigh their purchasing options, and make compassionate decisions when shopping. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Webinar: Behind the Kitchen Door | Learn how to choose compassionate consumption when you dine out and be part of an exciting national campaign to support workers' rights. | Multimedia Resource |
| Do Good by Dining Out: Diners' Tool Kit | The Diners' Tool Kit teaches diners how to use the ROC-United Diners' Guide and how to spread the word about restaurant worker justice. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Stand in Solidarity with Restaurant Workers | Support restaurant workers who are calling for basic improvements like paid sick days and a fair minimum wage for tipped workers. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Shop conscientiously | Learn how to shop with your values in mind, and find fair-trade and ethically sourced goods. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Speak out for small farmers and food-chain workers | Help small farmers and food-chain workers struggling for fair compensation and safer working conditions. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Choose Compassionate Consumption Microgrants | Apply for a grant of up to $300 to help organize those who want to eat ethically when they eat out. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Three Steps toward Compassionate Consumption | Learn how to evaluate goods and services to choose compassionate consumption. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Supporting Restaurant Worker Justice | Synopsis of the challenges faced by restaurant workers, our strategy to influence the restaurant industry, and ways you can help. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Values into Action: Organizing Workers, Field to Fork | A workshop conducted at General Assembly 2012 that examined successful models for organizing workers across the food chain to confront systematic violations of labor rights in the food industry. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| ROC Diners' Guide | Restaurant Opportunities Center United has issued their annual Diners' Guide to help you make the compassionate choice when dining out. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Is Your Chocolate Bittersweet? | Watch this amusing video about chocolate, and then take action. | Multimedia Resource |
| Pushing Back: Women Workers Speak Out on Trade | In this video, women workers share stories of how CAFTA has led to an increase in labor flexibilization, unemployment, violations of worker rights, and sexual discrimination. | Multimedia Resource |
| Choose Compassionate Consumption this Holiday Season | Resources to help you choose compassionate consumption during the holiday season. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Human Rights from Field to Fork lesson plans | Sample lesson plans for youth groups and religious-education classes that help people understand their connection to compassionate consumption through the Human Rights from Field to Fork project. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Raise the Bar, Hershey action resources | Campaign action resources from the Raise The Bar, Hershey campaign and UUSC | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Human Rights from Field to Fork awareness resources | Human Rights from Field to Fork is a collection of awareness tools for learning about the industrial food chain and justice issues faced by food chain workers. | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Just Desserts fair trade resources | Fair trade resources from Equal Exchange called "Just Desserts" | Campaign and Action Resource |
| Request CCC Promotional Items | Webform |
