About MPOWER
Mississippi's 25,000 poultry workers too often face:
- High injury rates
- Poverty-level wages
- Dangerous working conditions
- Discrimination based on race and national origin
Who We Are
MPOWER is a membership-based workers' center that works to build healthy communities by promoting economic and social justice in the state's poultry producing region and workplaces. We are a collaboration of poultry workers of diverse backgrounds, civil rights and immigrants' rights organizations, religious leaders, labor unions, employment justice groups, and other community partners.
What We Do
MPOWER aims to increase workers' abilities to ensure equity and justice on the job and in our communities by:
- Developing leadership among workers to make our voices heard.
- Strengthening workers' capacity to organize collectively.
- Enhancing workers' access to the knowledge, skills and resources to exercise our rights.
- Building relationships across differences of race, culture, gender, language and religious affiliation in order to link the struggles of the African American and Latin American communities.
Our Vision
We work to create long-term, structural change so that all employees are safe and treated with dignity. We believe in workplaces that provide sustainable jobs for all who work there.
