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“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

Letter from Bishop Whitaker to Burger King CEO

Posted on May 11, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Mr. John Chidsey, CEO Burger King Corporate Office 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive Miami, FL 33126 Dear Mr. Chidsey: I am writing to encourage you to exercise your leadership to enable Burger King to enter into an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) similar to agreements made by both Yum Brands and McDonald’s Corporations. These other corporations are now >> Read More

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST RESPONSE TO YUM BRANDS OFFER

Posted on May 30, 2004October 15, 2020 by CIW

Dear David Novak, I am the Executive Minister of Justice and Witness Ministries at the United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestand denomination with 1.3 million members. The UCC's General Synod endorsed the boycott of Taco Bell in 2001 and many of our congregations have been very active supporters of the boycott and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers ever since. >> Read More

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) RESPONSE TO YUM BRANDS OFFER

Posted on May 21, 2004October 15, 2020 by CIW

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.) Office of the General Assembly THE REV. DR. CLIFTON KIRKPATRICK, STATED CLERK "After three years of a consumer boycott, Taco Bell and its parent company Yum Brands have acknowledged that farm workers are at the heart of their operation and that farm workers’ wages and working conditions must change. But the company’s recent offer is not a >> Read More

CIW protest at Yum Brands shareholder meeting

Posted on May 20, 2004August 27, 2020 by CIW

CIW protest at Yum Brands shareholder meeting, Yum "offer to end boycott" cause quite a stir in Louisville, nationally! Taco Bell boycott continues following Yum CEO's public relations gambit... Thursday, May 20th, started out as a fairly typical day in the Taco Bell boycott. Workers from Immokalee traveled to Louisville, KY, for an animated protest at Yum Brands' annual shareholder >> Read More

THE HONORABLE MARY ROBINSON, FORMER UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER ON HUMAN RIGHTS, VISITS IMMOKALEE IN SOLIDARITY WITH CIW!

Posted on March 24, 2004October 15, 2020 by CIW

Ms. Robinson (shown in the photo on the right touring Immokalee migrant labor camps with CIW member Lucas Benitez) met with CIW members, took a walking tour of Immokalee, and spoke at a press conference (below, left), where she was joined by several CIW members, President of the National Council of Churches Bishop Thomas Hoyt, Rev. Noelle Damico representing the >> Read More

CIW Protest at Yum Brands Shareholder Meeting

Posted on May 14, 2003October 15, 2020 by CIW

OK... A chicken suit and a poster talking about YUM! Brands... hmmm... trying to piece this together... Let's widen the picture a bit... seems there were a whole bunch of farm animals gathered at this action. But wait a minute, isn't this a web site about farmworkers? Well, let's see what their sign says, maybe that will hold some >> Read More