Leadership at Food & Water Action, and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, have agreed to voluntarily recognize their staff’s union with the Nonprofit Professionals Employee Union (NPEU), or IFPTE Local 70, as their collective bargaining representative. “As an organization, we advocate for union power in the WATER Act and a real Green New Deal because we recognize the critical importance of protecting union labor and not leaving workers behind in our fight for a better world,” workers wrote in a memo announcing the formation of their union. “We believe that a union will allow us to truly live up to our values; will give us a tangible way to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace; and will show the rest of the world how truly invested we are in the right of workers to make a fair living on a livable planet.” Nearly 80 workers from many parts of the country will be in the union. Read more here