Restaurant Organizing Collective (ROC-DC) builds power with local restaurant workers to create a more sustainable and equitable industry for low-wage workers of color. Many restaurant workers continue to face low wages, poor working conditions, wage theft, and normalized sexual harassment, and women, immigrants, and workers of color disproportionately occupy the lowest-paid jobs with increasingly unsafe work environments. Using a member-led model, ROC-DC serves as an umbrella for its worker-members to build relationships, shape big-picture strategy across the industry, and develop as leaders. Through bilingual programming, workers build trust at free, kid-friendly yoga classes and movie nights while receiving training in how to enforce their workplace rights and defend their coworkers against ICE. A new worker-curated zine uplifts their stories, breaking down the silos between workers that have historically kept them powerless. ROC-DC is truly by and for workers.

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Budget (FY2026)

  • $3 million or higher
  • $1 million to $3 million
  • $500k to $1 million
  • The current budget for Restaurant Organizing Collective (ROC-DC) is: Less than $500k

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