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Milk with Dignity Program already making great strides in the Vermont dairy industry!

Milk with Dignity Program already making great strides in the Vermont dairy industry!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
[caption id="attachment_28887" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Vermont dairy workers head to work in the early morning. Photo by Caleb Kenna.[/caption] Vermont dairy worker on the Milk with Dignity Program: "Now that we’re in the program, I learned my rights as a worker, about raises and days off, about how we should be treated.  Now we can speak freely, without fear." This past >> Read More

TODAY: Vermont dairy workers, consumer allies march on Ben & Jerry’s factory!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Marchers will deliver powerful letter from national human rights organizations including ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Columbia University Law School Human Rights Clinic, and Human Rights Watch, calling on Ben & Jerry's to sign Milk with Dignity agreement without further delay!Show YOUR support for Vermont's Migrant Justice by joining the photo petition on social media today!As dawn broke this >> Read More

NEW VIDEO! VT dairy workers launch official Milk with Dignity video…

Posted on by CIW
[hupso title="NEW VIDEO: VT dairy workers launch official #MilkWithDignity video" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/mwd-vid/"] "We are organizing ourselves to shift power, and to ensure that farmers and farmworkers have a voice in the industry..." A battle for fundamental human rights is brewing in Vermont's dairy industry, and at the heart of it all lies this pivotal question: Who should speak for farmworkers when it >> Read More

“Will Ben & Jerry’s Help Improve Conditions for Dairy Workers?”

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[hupso title="Will @Benandjerrys help improve conditions for #VT dairy workers? @MigrantJustice" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/05/milk-with-dignity-launch/"] Great new article in Civil Eats asks: "A little Justice With Your Cherry Garcia?" Worker-driven Social Responsibility -- the market-based model for the enforceable protection of human rights in corporate supply chains at the heart of the CIW's Fair Food Program -- is a proven success.  To quote an >> Read More

Northern sojourn builds CIW bonds with Maine small farmers, Vermont dairy workers…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@CIW heads to VT, ME to build bonds with sm farmers & dairy workers!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] [caption id="attachment_19905" align="aligncenter" width="550"] CIW member Santiago Perez rakes wild, low-bush blueberries in a small field in the Blue Hill peninsula of "Downeast" Maine during the CIW delegation's visit to the area last week. The delegation met with Maine family farmers to discuss the >> Read More