Home Chef

Chicago, United States

Home Chef is a meal kit service that offers customizable meal kits and oven-ready dishes with flexible plans designed to cater to individual tastes and dietary needs.

CCI Score

10.66

-0.01% April 18

Latest Event

Home Chef Workers Join UFCW - A Victory for Labor Rights

After a four-month campaign at the Home Chef facility in Bedford Park, Illinois, production and distribution workers successfully joined UFCW Local 1546. This movement highlights their demands for better working conditions, higher pay, improved benefits, and increased management accountability, representing a significant pushback against exploitative labor practices.

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SABOTEUR

Home Chef is currently rated as a Saboteur.

+10 to +24 CCI Score

Companies in this bracket take more subtle actions to undermine authoritarian practices. They might implement internal policies or support reforms that quietly weaken oppressive systems, contributing to change in less overt ways.

Latest Events

NOV

14

2023

Home Chef Workers Join UFCW - A Victory for Labor Rights
60.68

After a four-month campaign at the Home Chef facility in Bedford Park, Illinois, production and distribution workers successfully joined UFCW Local 1546. This movement highlights their demands for better working conditions, higher pay, improved benefits, and increased management accountability, representing a significant pushback against exploitative labor practices.
+70

Labor Relations and Human Rights Practices

March 20

The unionization effort at Home Chef's Illinois facility is a positive signal for labor rights and worker empowerment. It demonstrates that workers are actively resisting poor working conditions and exploitative practices, aligning with anti-fascist values that oppose authoritarian control and support fair labor practices. However, the need for such a movement also highlights existing deficiencies in the company’s labor policies.

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Home Chef Workers in Illinois Join UFCW
OCT

17

2023

Home Chef Sued Over Harassment Firing Incident
-43.01

A lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court against Home Chef's staffing agency for a harassment-related firing has raised significant concerns regarding the company's labor practices and treatment of employees.
-50

Labor Relations and Human Rights Practices

March 20

The lawsuit over a harassment firing highlights serious labor relations and human rights issues within Home Chef's affiliated staffing operations. Such incidents suggest a potential disregard for employee protections and fair labor practices, an area of concern from an anti-fascist perspective where respect for worker rights is critical.
OCT

01

2023

Home Chef Sued Over Harassment Firing
-34.26

A lawsuit in a Georgia federal court alleges that Home Chef, via its staffing partner and affiliated legal entity, engaged in wrongful harassment firing practices that raise serious concerns about its labor relations and treatment of workers.
-40

Labor Relations and Human Rights Practices

March 20

The lawsuit alleges that Home Chef, through its staffing partner, engaged in a harassment firing which undermines fair labor practices and worker protections. This incident reflects poorly on the company’s labor relations, signaling potential complicity in abusive management practices that contribute to oppressive work environments.

Home Chef, Staffing Co. Sued Over Harassment Firing
AUG

18

2023

UFCW files to organize workers at Kroger's Home Chef
59.23

UFCW has filed with the NLRB to unionize 188 workers at Home Chef’s Chicago-area facility, highlighting ongoing struggles for labor rights. This move underscores the need for companies to respect and support worker representation in an era marked by corporate power dynamics and authoritarian tendencies.
+70

Labor Relations and Human Rights Practices

March 20

The UFCW filing to organize workers at Home Chef's facility points to a significant effort by the workforce to assert their labor rights amid a corporate structure that may otherwise prioritize profits over people. This positive move towards union representation reflects a necessary push against practices that can enable exploitative labor conditions, aligning with anti-authoritarian and pro-worker values.

UFCW files to organize workers at Kroger's Home Chef