Hundreds of service industry workers with the Restaurant Opportunities Center called for workplace organizing to combat the racism, sexism, and labor exploitation rampant in the industry and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is a former union organizer and former editor of Minneapolis based Workday Minnesota, the first online labor news publication in the state. Filiberto focused on longform and investigative journalism. He has covered topics including prison labor, labor trafficking, and union fights in the Twin Cities.