Though the first workshop in this guide is based around the film “Eyes on the Fries”, it’s not essential to have to hold the other workshops on economic justice in the service industry featured. Try replacing it with your favourite service-industry documentary.

The guide includes tips for facilitators, activities for the workshop and different scenarios of workers for participants to relate to. Some stats may have to be adjusted for a Canadian audience but the goal is the same: to empower service industry employees to organize. The workshop covers:

The importance of the informal economy


Factors that exploit workers


How to organize in the service industry


Building union solidarity