Join LION and SALT for a BPOC Workers' Rights Training & Social
Are you frustrated and exhausted by working without job security, decent pay, power to influence decisions, or workplace cultures that value and care for you? Do you understand your employment rights within an informal and confusing sector?
Do you want to work in a world where people are cared for as well as the environment? And do you feel that your care and love for what you do can be taken advantage of in a way that creates unhealthy working conditions?
Come and join us at the Soanes Centre on Saturday 28th June for an afternoon of sharing, learning and strategising to build workers’ power! This session will empower workers across land related trades to start making the changes needed to ensure the viability of our livelihoods.
Land In Our Names are collaborating with Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT) to deliver a worker's rights training for BPOC growers, farm, earth and land workers. Claire Ratinon will deliver a short training about workers rights, specific to growers employed in the agroecological sector. We will have food and drinks and close the training with time to socialise and connect.
SALT have recently published their workers enquiry which revealed that “of the 46 workers surveyed, Black women were the most likely to report having experienced discrimination” which aligns with much of the research that LION has conducted in our research reports, Jumping Fences and Rootz Into Food Growing.
In ‘Burntout, Overworked & Underpaid’ the researchers found that:
“They explain how race and class dictates who is welcome in agroecological spaces, with participation confined to those who conform to a white, middle-class aesthetic.”
“Wealth and whiteness were intertwined, with white workers from middle or upper-class origin identified as the most able to succeed”
That is why we felt it necessary to co-host an event supporting BPOC workers in agroecology, herbalism to know their rights. Too often this sector has used its good intention to exploit its workers and we believe that worker's rights is deeply connected to racial, land and food justice.
This is a BPOC-only event.
This includes:
People of African descent,
Asian descent (East, South-East, South, Central) , First Nations & Pacific Islander
Racialised people from Abya Yala (Latinx/Central & South American), Arab, West Asian & North African, multiracial & mixed heritage
This is not an exhaustive list, we rely on trust & self-definition by attendees.
So join us on the 28th June from 11:30am to 4pm for an opportunity to learn your rights and connect to others!
Accessibility
It is really important to us to make this event as accessible as possible, this includes physical, sensory, linguistic, financial, neurological, cultural, social and emotional access. Please let us know what we can put in place to support you to attend by filling in this form by 26th May.
- We will have welfare support available before, during and after the session to talk through any needs or challenges you experience.
- We can provide BSL/captioning and translation on request - please let us know ASAP.
Accessibility contact: info@cfgn.org.uk