Restaurant Opportunities Center of New Orleans (ROC-NOLA)

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WHO WE ARE: ROC-NOLA is a local restaurant workers’ organization founded in 2008 that has 305 restaurant worker members. We build power and voice for restaurant workers in three major ways

1.     Workplace Justice Campaigns – We support restaurant workers in the New Orleans area whose face injustice in their restaurant workplace. For more information, please attend a regular orientation on the following dates. If you cannot attend at the following dates and times, please call us at (504) 821.7044.

New Member Orientations:  Weekly orientations are held Tuesdays at 1pm.

2.     Promoting the High Road to Profitability – We partner with responsible restaurant owners in the New Orleans area to promote best management practices. We also partner with them to offer our restaurant worker members with FREE restaurant training and job placement services, to help restaurant workers advance to livable wage jobs in the industry. We offer the following classes:

- Introduction to Customer Service:   To be Announced
- Advanced Bartending:                     To be Announced
- Advanced Fine Dining Service:         To be Announced
- English for Restaurant workers:       To be Announced

3.     Research & Policy work – We are currently conducting the most comprehensive research available on the local New Orleans area restaurant industry. Our members are being trained to conduct more than 500 surveys of their fellow workers. We also plan to conduct more than 30 employer interviews. We published all of this information in our local policy report,  Behind the Kitchen Door: Inequality, Instability, and Opportunity in the New Orleans Restaurant Industry. The report was featured in the following local media outlets: Louisiana Weekly, February 21, 2010.

Through this report, our members discovered that one priority issue for restaurant workers in the New Orleans area is having job security, in the instance of a mandatory evacuation. Join our Policy Committee, which meets monthly, call (504) 821.7044 for more information!

4.     Other services for members:

Becoming a member of ROC-NOLA has its privileges, including:

- ROC’s National Health Care Cooperative (coming soon!)

Other opportunities to get involved –

- Workplace Justice Committee
- Training and Placement Spring 2012
- Women’s Committee Spring 2012
- Events and Actions Spring 2012 
- Leadership Development Early Summer 2012

To learn more, attend one of our new member orientations:

Call and ask for Reece @ 504-383-4746

CONTACT US:
Phone: (504) 383-4746
Address: 5030 S. Liberty St., New Orleans, LA  70115

Reece Chenault (Lead Coordinator) Email:  reece@rocunited.org
Tania Mattos (Research and Policy Coordinator) Email:  tania@rocunited.org
Corlita Mahr (Consultant) Email: corlita@rocunited.org
Crystal Dixon (High Road Coordinator) Email: crystal@rocunited.org