abstract:The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) is a not-for-profit organization and worker center with affiliates in 9 cities across the United States. The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United is to improve wages and working conditions for the nation's low wage restaurant workforce.
According to a 2005 study by the RestaurantOpportunitiesCenter of New York, about 73 percent of all New York restaurant workers -- about 160, 000 people -- have no health insurance.