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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

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

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

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

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

Posted on July 28, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

[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

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

Posted on March 14, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

[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?

Posted on January 12, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[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

And you thought the presidential debates were maddening…

Posted on October 20, 2016October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Wendy's issues statement on boycott after months of silence. Silence was better. As we write this on Wednesday evening, the nation prepares (and by "prepares" we mean curls into the fetal position on the couch in front of the TV...) for the third and final presidential debate. But if you are like us and happened to catch Wendy's new statement >> Read More

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

Posted on July 25, 2016October 16, 2020 by CIW

[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…

Posted on July 17, 2016October 15, 2020 by CIW

[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