The Poultry Worker Justice Project is a regional initiative throughout the South designed to increase poultry workers’ abilities to improve their working conditions and to play a direct role in ensuring that poultry companies build responsible relationships with their employees and with the communities in which they are located. The objective of the Project is to achieve systemic reform in the poultry industry by working with poultry workers, their unions and other community allies to hold poultry companies accountable for worker safety, fair wages and just workplace practices.

The Poultry Worker Justice Project is creating a new space for change by:

In Mississippi we have created a community-based workers’ center to accomplish these goals.

The Mississippi Poultry Workers’ Center is a membership-based organization that works to build healthy communities by promoting economic and social justice in the state’s poultry producing region and workplaces. We represent a collaboration among poultry workers of diverse backgrounds, civil rights and immigrants’ rights organizations, religious leaders, labor unions, employment justice groups, and other community partners. The Workers’ Center aims to increase workers’ and advocates’ abilities to ensure equity and justice on the job and in our communities by making workers’ voices heard, by strengthening our capacity to organize collectively, by enhancing our access to knowledge, skills and resources needed for protecting workers’ rights, and by building relationships across differences of race, culture, citizenship, gender, language and religious affiliation.