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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

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

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

Civil Eats on Fair Food Program: “Meet the Farmworkers Leading the #MeToo Fight For Workers Everywhere”…

Posted on May 24, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

“By rectifying long-standing power imbalances, Worker-driven Social Responsibility drills into the foundation of the problem…” “No gender-based violence programs have achieved the same amount of leverage in fostering change…” Earlier this week, Civil Eats published an excellent, feature-length piece based on interviews conducted during the Freedom Fast in New York City that lends critical insight into the endemic, generations-old problem >> Read More

NPR’s 1A brings news of new book on CIW, story of Fair Food movement, to millions of listeners!

Posted on January 26, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dean of Pardee RAND Graduate School Susan Marquis's book, "I am not a tractor!", attracts national attention to remarkable story — and promising future — of Fair Food movement... Over the past month, word has spread about an extraordinary new book from the Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School in California, Susan Marquis. Marquis's volume, titled "I Am Not >> Read More

NEW VIDEO: Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network publishes video on WSR as model continues to grow in U.S., internationally!

Posted on December 28, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Hope for a better year ahead for low-wage workers... Following a tumultuous 2017, a weary world turns its eyes toward the year ahead and ponders what new trials and tremors await us in 2018. But one unlikely sector — low-wage workers laboring in industries across the world, from the agricultural fields of the U.S. to the textile and electronics factories of >> Read More

U of Michigan Report: “The Fair Food Program is the most comprehensive social responsibility program in the U.S.”

Posted on December 4, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Students from the University of Michigan protest outside of the campus Wendy’s, urging passing students to join the national boycott last spring.[/caption] The Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights’ recommendation to the University of Michigan President: “Become a signatory of the Fair Food Program.” Meanwhile, UMich and Ohio State students team up to Boycott Wendy's at >> Read More

CIW’s Greg Asbed named 2017 MacArthur Fellow!

Posted on October 19, 2017August 7, 2020 by CIW

Prestigious award calls Worker-driven Social Responsibility "visionary strategy... with potential to transform workplace environments across the global supply chain." The CIW's Fair Food Program, and the broader Worker-driven Social Responsibility paradigm of which the FFP was the pioneering model, received perhaps their most significant recognition to date when the MacArthur Foundation announced this year's list of recipients of the acclaimed MacArthur >> Read More