FOR WORKERS:  Restaurant workers everywhere! Join the movement to improve the restaurant industry for everyone involved – workers, consumers, and employers. There are so many ways to get involved:

(1) Become a full member. If you live in a city where ROC has an affiliate, you have the opportunity to become a full member! Full members pay $5 in dues every month, and receive free job training and placement, legal and organizing support with regard to injustices on the job, leadership training, and much more. In some cities, they also have access to affordable primary health care through the ROC M.D. National Health Care Cooperative.

To get started, click on the page for your city under “ROC Local”, and find out when new member orientations occur. If you can’t attend a new member orientation, call to set up an appointment with one of the staff or leaders.

(2) Sign up as an online member. If you live in a place where ROC has a STAR (Supporting Transformation in America’s Restaurants) or there is no ROC presence at all, you can sign up here to become an online member:

• - receive regular information and updates about ROC campaigns;
• - access our legal referral network for problems on the job;
• - get involved with educating Congressmembers on issues like the need for a raise to the tipped minimum wage!

(3) Write to your legislator. Click here to send a message to your federal representatives that $2.13 is not an acceptable wage for tipped restaurant workers, and that all restaurant workers need paid sick leave!

(4) Start a ROC STAR in your community! Any restaurant worker can apply to start a ROC STAR. If you are selected, at least one restaurant worker leader from your community will be flown to Chicago or Washington, DC for training. ROC STARs eventually become full-fledged affiliates, so this will be the beginning of a growing movement of restaurant workers in your local community you!

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