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Breaking: New Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network launches website!

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[caption id="attachment_26787" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A screen grab from the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network's new website provides a glimpse into the exciting new information and analysis clearinghouse on all things WSR.[/caption]Big news from the Worker-driven Social Responsibility front: New network of worker organizations and human rights groups dedicated to spreading WSR model launches communication work with beautiful new website...The nascent Worker-driven >> Read More

Labor Day Reflection: “Why Consumers Matter in Realizing Workers’ Rights…”

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[caption id="attachment_22621" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The young son of a Dhaka garment worker calls on Western brands and retailers to implement safety reforms in their Bangladesh factories. Consumers worldwide pushed to make it happen. Credit: Worker Rights Consortium[/caption] CIW, NESRI and WRC publish reflection in Huffington Post on consumers' power to demand workers' rights at home, abroad...Labor Day is a day we >> Read More

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) Rebukes Supermarket Giant Ahold for Misleading, Stalling Tactics in Response to Farmworker Rights Campaign

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FOR MORE INFORMATION: Kate Caldwell +1 215.913.6026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, September 1, 2010 – Ahold, a Royal Dutch company that owns supermarkets throughout the United States and Europe, is “dragging its feet on farmworker justice in its supply chain and attempting to co-opt the good name of a leading human rights organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), >> Read More

NESRI Statement on McDonald’s SAFE Code of Conduct

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The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) issues this statement to echo and affirm the concerns expressed by the RFK Memorial Center on Human Rights on the code of conduct created by growers of produce in Florida and McDonald’s through the newly formed Socially Accountable Farm Employers (SAFE) organization. McDonald’s has chosen to address human rights abuses against farmworkers >> Read More
STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT POURING IN FOR CIW McD’s INITIATIVE!!

STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT POURING IN FOR CIW McD’s INITIATIVE!!

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Events are moving quickly as the CIW's call for fast-food giant McDonald's to address wages and working conditions in Florida's tomato fields enters its third day (see urgent Action Alert below). Already McDonald's has made the first move, attempting to side-step the CIW's call for substantive change and instead throwing its lot in with a hastily cobbled-together grower-controlled initiative (which >> Read More