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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

CIW speaks at OSCE conference in Moscow on stopping human trafficking…

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[caption id="attachment_26529" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Greg Asbed of the CIW (second from left) participated on the first day of the OSCE conference as part of a panel titled "Private Sector Initiatives and Practices Addressing Human Trafficking". He described the Fair Food Program and its well-documented success in fighting forced labor, and challenged the assembled corporations, government representatives and NGOs to aim >> Read More

Wake Forest Law Review: “Preventing Forced Labor in Corporate Supply Chains: The Fair Food Program and Worker-driven Social Responsibility”

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[caption id="attachment_26482" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A CIW Education Team leads a conversation on the right to shade and other health and safety rights under the Fair Food Program with workers at a participating farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia during a recent education session.[/caption] Newly published article provides most comprehensive analysis to date of CIW's award-winning Fair Food Program and >> Read More

The Worker-driven Social Responsibility model hits new milestone, continues its expansion in world of business and human rights!

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  Workers Rights Consortium reports groundbreaking Bangladesh Accord extended to 2021; renewal "product of the recognition, by all of the parties, of the Accord’s effectiveness," confirmation of power of WSR approach... Meanwhile: Migrant Justice receives the National Education Association's prestigious Cesar Chavez Civil and Human Rights Award; pressure increases on Ben & Jerry's to finalize agreement to implement WSR-based Milk with Dignity Program >> Read More

Labor expert: “There’s no reason this model can’t work across the United States…”

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[caption id="attachment_25453" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CREDIT: Christian Science Monitor[/caption]"A SHIFT IN THOUGHT: Florida’s tomato pickers took on some of the country’s biggest retailers and fast-food chains – and won, transforming working conditions in the tomato fields. Now they and their allies are trying to take the fight to new fields and new industries."  Christian Science Monitor article on CIW's Worker-driven Social >> Read More

ANALYSIS: Lofty goals… or empty promises?

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[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Auditor from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with ensuring the enforcement of the Fair Food Program, conducting an interview with workers on a tomato farm in Florida.[/caption] First draft of new industry-led initiative charts uncertain course toward "responsible labor practices" in US produce sector... Brief: There's nothing like the "power of the >> Read More

Fair Food Program receives highest recommendation in newly released evaluation of seven food justice certification programs!

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Fair World Project -- a project of the Organic Consumers Association, the nation's largest network of green and ethical consumers -- releases powerful new report looking into the standards, enforcement, and impact of best-known certification programs...The CIW's Fair Food Program received the highest recommendation in a new study of seven of the leading certification programs in the country carried out by Fair >> Read More

CIW Education team wraps up second summer of Fair Food Program education beyond Florida…

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Nearly 1,000 tomato harvesters trained as frontline monitors of their own rights under the Fair Food Program in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey... Following June's worker-to-worker education trip to Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, the CIW education team continued its trek north and wrapped up 2016's northern education season this month with a tour of tomato farms in Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey, where they >> Read More

Part Two: What is a corporation to do if it is looking to partner with a real social responsibility program?

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[caption id="attachment_24416" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A sign inside Wendy's corporate headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.  While Wendy's continues to cling to catchy slogans and a hollow code of conduct, an ever growing number of its customers are demanding that those words be made a reality in its tomato supply chain.[/caption]We concluded the first installment of this two-part series, entitled "The Enforcement Imperative at the Heart >> Read More

The enforcement imperative at the heart of Worker-driven Social Responsibility…

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[caption id="attachment_23953" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A Fair Food Standards Council auditor interviews a worker at Participating Grower's farm earlier this year.[/caption] Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) -- the emerging paradigm for the protection of fundamental human rights in corporate supply chains born of the uniquely successful experience of the Fair Food Program -- is founded on two distinct and equally important philosophical pillars: worker >> Read More