"Como trabajadores y mujeres, tenemos que luchar por nuestros derechos y contra la violencia tanto en la labor como en la casa"
"As women and as workers, we have to fight for our rights and against violence both in the fields and in our own homes"
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 CIW
RECEIVES TOP INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR TACO BELL BOYCOTT!
On Wednesday, November 2, at a gala awards ceremony
in San Francisco, Gerardo Reyes of the CIW received
the 2005 Business Ethics Network (BENNY) Award in
the name of the farmworker community in Immokalee
that spearheaded the successful Taco Bell Boycott.
Here's an excerpt from the BENNY Award press release:
"SAN FRANCISCO: Last evening, in a speech
that brought the audience to tears and to its feet,
Florida farm worker Gerardo Reyes Chávez
accepted the top prize at the 2005 BENNY Awards
on behalf of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
The BENNY Awards were announced by the international
Business Ethics Network.
Chávez spoke of the long struggle of the
Immokalee tomato pickers in Florida. “We were
basically invisible in the paradise that is Florida,”
he said.
After years of strikes and protests against tomato
growers to increase wages, in 2001 the Coalition
launched a boycott against fast-food giant Taco
Bell, one of the largest purchasers of tomatoes
in the U.S. In early 2005 Taco Bell made an unprecedented
agreement to pay the first-ever direct, ongoing
payment by a fast-food industry leader to workers
in its supply chain to address sub-standard farm
labor wages.
Over the past decade, corporate campaigns have become
a more common tool for making change, particularly
when legislative and political avenues are blocked.
“It is through corporate campaigns, not the
political system, that we are seeing the greatest
achievements for workers, and in protection of the
environment and public health,” said Mari
Margil, spokeswoman for the Business Ethics Network..."
read
more from BENNY Award press release
As Gerardo added in his speech accepting the award,
"The Taco Bell Boycott was a chapter now finished
in a history that we continue to write today. There
are many more chapters to come as we move forward
with our Campaign for Fair Food!" The CIW extends
its sincerest thanks to the Business Ethics Network
and promises to make them proud of having chosen the
Taco Bell Boycott for this prestigious award. CLICK
HERE FOR PICTURES FROM THE BENNY AWARD CEREMONY!
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