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Presbyterian Church (USA) becomes first mainline denomination to endorse the principles of Worker-driven Social Responsibility!

Posted on October 4, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

"Historic vote" by Presbyterian Mission Agency Board is the latest chapter in long history of PC(USA) support for CIW, Fair Food Movement... Huge news from the faith-based organizing front of the movement for Fair Food: The 1.4 million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) became the first mainline denomination to endorse the principles of Worker-driven Social Responsibility at its Mission Agency board meeting on >> Read More

“A #MeToo-era marvel”: Slate Magazine features Fair Food Program in “What Hollywood Can Learn From Farmworkers”…

Posted on September 25, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28203" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Farmworkers and Fair Food allies march through New York City to call on Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program and help to eradicate sexual violence in the fields.[/caption] Journalist Bernice Yeung in Slate Magazine on the Fair Food Program: "...a #MeToo-era marvel that other industries are rapidly trying to adopt, a novel approach that not >> Read More

MUST-SEE NEW VIDEO: Time’s Up leader Alyssa Milano narrates powerful new Fair Food Program video!

Posted on September 4, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

"The truth is, much of the food you buy is harvested under conditions that would shock you... But there is hope on the horizon for America’s farmworkers..." Help us share this hard-hitting new video far and wide! This year, the CIW is celebrating Labor Day like never before – with a dramatic new video, and a high profile social media >> Read More

Compass Group USA announces first generation of Fair Food Chefs on new website!

Posted on August 15, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Russell Szekely (above), VP of Canteen Culinary – a part of Compass Groups USA – shares his reflections on the Fair Food Program after a visit to Immokalee. Fair Food Chef Paul Ruszat with Morrison Healthcare (of Compass Group USA): “If the sustainability doesn’t start with the people that are growing and picking our food then the rest doesn’t matter.” >> Read More

New popular education drawings make their debut at worker-to-worker education sessions on Fair Food farms along the East Coast!

Posted on August 7, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28934" align="aligncenter" width="800"] CIW's Oscar Otzoy (in blue shirt), with the help of two volunteers, leads a reflection on the right to safe transportation using a new Fair Food Program education drawing in Virginia last week. The drawing depicts an accident and the consequences of the use of unauthorized, unsafe vehicles for transporting workers to and from the fields.[/caption] >> Read More

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

Posted on July 27, 2018October 15, 2020 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

Author of “I Am Not a Tractor” pens thoughtful op/ed on lessons from Fair Food movement for #MeToo, “#MarchForOurLives” movements…

Posted on July 13, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

Marquis: "The new movements appear to understand one pillar of the coalition's success – real and sustainable change can be driven, designed and implemented from inside the communities most affected." In her unique style – a style perhaps best described as a marriage of the engineer's love for astute systems analysis with the advocate's heartfelt empathy for those facing uphill >> Read More

What is the secret ingredient to the Fair Food Program? Worker participation.

Posted on June 20, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_26380" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Workers participate in a CIW-led worker-to-worker education session last summer before heading into the fields to pick on a Fair Food Program farm in South Carolina.[/caption] Dear friends, As we write, the CIW's worker-to-worker Education Team is once again hard at work on a farm in South Carolina, talking to farmworkers about their rights under the >> Read More

No free passes: Wendy’s return to US doesn’t obviate duty to respect workers’ rights… It only puts them back where they started.

Posted on June 14, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Nearly two hundred farmworkers and consumer allies protested in the rain outside Wendy's annual shareholder meeting in Dublin, Ohio, last week. Photos by Ralph Orr.[/caption] Despite repatriation of tomato purchases from Mexico, the imperative remains the same: Farmworkers in Wendy's supply chains must be protected by the Fair Food Program, the only effective human rights program >> Read More

Half-way home…

Posted on June 8, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28605" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Nearly 200 protesters – including nearly 50 farmworkers and their families from Immokalee – march outside of the Wendy's Annual Shareholder meeting. They cheered on Fair Food Nation representatives who attended the meeting, prepared to confront Wendy's executives with tough questions on the company's refusal to join the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Bowing to farmworker and consumer >> Read More