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One week out! Workers’ Voice Tour just around the corner…

Posted on February 22, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_23372" align="alignleft" width="307"] One of many flyers for national caravans converging on major stops on the Workers' Voice Tour[/caption]Buses filling up for major actions in New York, Columbus, Palm Beach...With just a week to go before the Workers' Voice Tour hits the road, farmworkers in Immokalee are putting the finishing touches on gorgeous new puppets and banners, collecting cold weather gear, >> Read More

MUST-SEE Top Ten Video Countdown!!…

Posted on February 18, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Scores of consumers respond to The Valentine's Day Wendy's break-up challenge, the videos are in, and they are spectacular!!In the final stretch before the upcoming Workers' Voice Tour, as communities from South Florida to upstate New York mobilize for next month's big actions, we have been calling on Fair Food supporters across the country to turn up the pressure on Wendy's. Just this past weekend, for example, >> Read More

A hard rain’s gonna fall…

Posted on February 16, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_23339" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW's 40-member Central Committee gathered last Sunday evening to finalize plans and review the route for the March 2-12 Workers' Voice Tour.[/caption]Mobilizing for Workers' Voice Tour in full swing from Immokalee to Columbus, as the Fair Food Nation readies for a spring action to remember!For several weeks now, CIW members and Alliance for Fair Food staff have been hard at work in >> Read More

Report back: Calls flood into New York offices of Wendy’s Board Chairman Nelson Peltz…

Posted on February 12, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Consumers to Wendy's leadership: "Wendy's needs to join the ranks of all the other fast food companies that have already joined the Fair Food Program..."In the final week of January, we called on the Fair Food Nation to flood the office of Wendy's Board Chairman Nelson Peltz with phone calls, urging the fast-food giant's most powerful shareholder to recognize his personal responsibility >> Read More

Break up with Wendy’s this Valentine’s Day Weekend!

Posted on February 10, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Consumers keep turning up the heat on final fast food holdout ahead of next month's Workers' Voice Tour...Last week, we put out a call for Fair Food activists to pick up the phone and give Wendy's Board Chairman Nelson Peltz a piece of their minds about the fast-food leader's refusal to join the groundbreaking Fair Food Program. That, however, was just the >> Read More

Hot off the press!…

Posted on February 8, 2016October 16, 2020 by CIW

The 2015 Fair Food Program Annual Report is here! Download yours today...It's that time of year, again, when the Fair Food Standards Council publishes its annual report on the state of the Fair Food Program. The report is an exceptional source of data and analysis of the unprecedented changes underway -- and the many challenges still ahead -- in the fields >> Read More

Extra! Extra! 2016 Workers’ Voice Tour website launched… Register to join us today!

Posted on February 3, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Ready to join farmworkers for the major spring action to demand justice from Fair Food holdout Wendy's? Find the schedule, registration info, social media and more at the Workers' Voice Tour website...Just one month ago, we shared the exciting invitation to this year's major spring action, the 2016 Workers' Voice Tour:This coming March 2-12, farmworkers and thousands of consumer allies >> Read More

New York Times talks sexual harassment in the fields, letter cites Fair Food Program’s unique success in preventing abuse!

Posted on February 1, 2016October 16, 2020 by CIW

Sanjay Rawal, director of "Food Chains," in letter to editor of NYT: "The problem is real. But so is the solution — and it deserves mention."Earlier this month, the New York Times published a hard-hitting op/ed by two longtime California-based farmworker rights activists, Jose Padilla of California Rural Legal Assistance and David Bacon, an independent author and photojournalist. The piece, >> Read More

“Human Trafficking: 6 Solutions that Are Working”…

Posted on January 28, 2016October 16, 2020 by CIW

Following a 14-part global series on labor trafficking, Christian Science Monitor picks six "solutions that are working," and the Fair Food Program tops the list!Last Thanksgiving week, Christian Science Monitor published an in-depth article on the exploitation of farmworkers in the US and the unprecedented progress that has taken place in Florida's fields thanks to the Fair Food Program. That >> Read More

TOMORROW: Give Wendy’s Board Chairman Nelson Peltz a buzz!

Posted on January 26, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_22933" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW members, Fair Food allies outside the office of Wendy's Board Chairman Nelson Peltz in New York City last December.[/caption]CALL TO ACTION: National call-in to Wendy's leadership set for Wednesday, Jan. 27th...Five weeks out from the Workers' Voice Tour, the Fair Food Nation is already turning up the heat on Wendy's! The ramp-up is in full swing. >> Read More