Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center for Justice provided industry research and data analysis for Is Your Gourmet Grocery a Sweatshop?, a new report by New York Jobs with Justice and Queens College Labor Resource Center. This report shows that high prices at gourmet groceries do not mean high wages for workers. In fact, many workers face not just low wages, but no overtime pay, few benefits, discrimination, abusive working conditions, and little opportunity for upward mobility. The report is being used to educate NYC consumers about the realities of a fast-growing segment of New York City’s food retail industry.