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Help us ensure dignity and respect for farmworker women!

Posted on June 11, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Help ensure dignity & respect for #farmworker women!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Catapult launches new crowdfunding project to support expansion of the Fair Food Program... Earlier this year, the Fair Food Program won the support of Catapult, a pioneering crowdfunding platform that works with groups around the globe to advance the rights of women and girls. And today, we have the great pleasure of announcing >> Read More

Religious leaders around the country call on Wendy’s: “Lead Wendy’s to be a part of the common good…”

Posted on June 4, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="60+ religious leaders call on @Wendys: Lead Wendys to be a part of the common good..." url="https://ciw-online.org/"] "We've witnessed the powerful partnerships between workers, growers and corporations, whose collaboration is transforming an industry once mired in slavery to one now founded on dignity and respect..." The campaign to shepherd Wendy's into the growing Fair Food movement continued to gain momentum >> Read More

TalkPoverty.org, a project of Center for American Progress, runs great read on the Fair Food Program…

Posted on June 2, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@talkpoverty, @BillMoyers run great read on #FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Moyers & Company also picks up article analyzing worker-led approach that drives success of CIW's Fair Food Program... Over the past generation, Corporate Social Responsibility programs (a field known by the acronym "CSR") – based on a mix of corporate-drafted vendor codes of conduct, voluntary compliance, and periodic auditing – have been embraced and >> Read More

An open letter to Wendy’s shareholders from the Campaign for Fair Food on the eve of the 2014 annual meeting…

Posted on May 27, 2014October 15, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Dear @Wendys shareholders..." url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Are you sure your company is on the right path? Is standing against the tide of progress for farmworkers really worth another year of protests, bad press, and increasing public scrutiny?... Dear Wendy's shareholder, Tomorrow is the big annual meeting in Dublin, Ohio, your chance to hear from your company's executives and officers about the successes >> Read More

Policy Link: “Tomato Workers in Florida Remake an Industry”…

Posted on May 23, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@PolicyLink: Tomato workers in Florida Remake an Industry #FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] "What I found in the coalition was a group of people who believed in the same things we did — good working relationships and having a sustainable business. That's the basis for a partnership." Jon Esformes, Pacific Tomato Growers Policy Link, the "national research and action institute advancing economic >> Read More

Ms. Foundation to Wendy’s: “Show the necessary leadership and sign a Fair Food Agreement”…

Posted on May 21, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#WomensRights champ @MsFoundation enters ring in @Wendys campaign! #FairFoodProgram " url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Today's open letter to Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick calls Fair Food Program "imperative to improving working conditions for women farmworkers who face sexual harassment and assault..." The Ms. Foundation for Women, the storied champion of women's rights and a longtime supporter of the Fair Food movement, stepped into the ring today on >> Read More

Two excellent articles look at gains for women farmworkers under Fair Food Program…

Posted on May 9, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Welcome to the tomato fields of Florida. Welcome to the future." url="the URL"] "Welcome to the tomato fields of Immokalee, Florida. Welcome to the future." Two recent articles turned the spotlight on the changing conditions for women in Florida's tomato fields thanks to the Fair Food Program, and they both came away impressed with what they found. The first, entitled >> Read More

Second helpings from the Tribeca table…

Posted on May 7, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Second helpings from the @TribecaFilmFestival table..." url="https://ciw-online.org"] The CIW's whirlwind weekend at last month's Tribeca film festival produced a tremendous wave of news and events that we covered at the time in this post from the scene. But in moments of fast-moving events like the premiere of the new documentary "Food Chains" -- which itself came on the heels of the >> Read More

“This is the best workplace-monitoring program I’ve seen in the US”… Don’t miss today’s New York Times story on the Fair Food Program!

Posted on April 25, 2014October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Auditor from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with ensuring the implementation of hte Fair Food Program, conducting an interview with workers on a tomato farm in Florida[/caption] Front page New York Times story takes a close look at Fair Food Program, traces trajectory of Florida tomato industry "from being the worst >> Read More

Fair Food Program “good for business…”

Posted on April 14, 2014October 15, 2020 by CIW

Media round-up highlights Fair Food Nation's remarkable progress in first months of 2014... In January, Walmart signed a Fair Food agreement, adding the world's largest retailer to the growing list of food giants supporting the Fair Food Program. In February, the documentary "Food Chains" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, introducing Europe to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and to >> Read More