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BREAKING NEWS: “A Giant step forward for farmworkers!”… Ahold, parent company to Giant, Stop & Shop, and Peapod, joins Fair Food Program!

BREAKING NEWS: “A Giant step forward for farmworkers!”… Ahold, parent company to Giant, Stop & Shop, and Peapod, joins Fair Food Program!

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[hupso title="BREAKING NEWS: Ahold USA becomes first major US grocer to participate in acclaimed @FairFoodProgram!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/07/ahold-agreement/"][caption id="attachment_22339" align="aligncenter" width="619"] Gerardo Reyes Chavez of CIW (left) and Felis Andrade of Giant Food place a Fair Food sign next to tomatoes in Giant’s O Street store in Washington DC. Photo credit: Helena Coutinho[/caption]Ahold:  "The Fair Food Program is a time-tested leader in >> Read More
Big news out of Ahold’s shareholder meeting in Amsterdam, with more to come…

Big news out of Ahold’s shareholder meeting in Amsterdam, with more to come…

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[hupso title="BIG NEWS out of Ahold's shareholder meeting, with more to come..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/04/ahold-big-news/"]   We'll keep this short and sweet for now. As you may remember, last week we posted a report on what was then our upcoming visit to Ahold's annual shareholder meeting in Amsterdam.  Ahold is the Dutch parent company to several major US grocery chains, including northeastern >> Read More

CIW prepares to cross the sea to press the case for Fair Food at Ahold’s annual shareholder meeting in Amsterdam!

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[hupso title=".@CIW prepares to cross the sea to press case for #FairFood with @AholdNews!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/04/ahold/"] Action, organized in conjunction with Dutch allies, will be fifth appearance by CIW at Ahold annual meeting; Past actions have had their controversial, educational moments... Whether it was the time the CIW's representative was cut off as he spoke about the Fair Food Program to company directors >> Read More

Royal Ahold executives sidestep the call for Fair Food — again!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Ahold sidesteps the call to join the #FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] At annual shareholder meeting in Amsterdam, Ahold executives insist CIW representative "speak English" when asking question on behalf of farmworkers, continue to reject "the best workplace monitoring Program in the U.S..." Farmworkers from Immokalee have been knocking on the door of Amsterdam-based Royal Ahold -- the international supermarket corporation that owns >> Read More

CIW Response to Ahold

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Over the past year, the $40 billion supermarket conglomerate Ahold (Dutch parent company of US-based chains Stop & Shop, Giant, Martin's, and Peapod), has issued a steady stream ofcorporate responsibility reports, open letters, and public statements in an attempt to justify its decision to forgo participation in the CIW's Fair Food Program. The program would require that Ahold agree to pay an extra >> Read More

Letter to Stop & Shop from the Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

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Jeff Enright, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Stop & Shop Andrea Astrachan, Vice President of Consumer Affairs, Stop & Shop c/o Ahold USA 1385 Hancock Street Quincy, MA 02169 Dear Mr. Enright and Ms. Astrachan: Greetings, and blessings from the Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice. We request a meeting with you to discuss the measures Stop & Shop and >> Read More

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) Rebukes Supermarket Giant Ahold for Misleading, Stalling Tactics in Response to Farmworker Rights Campaign

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FOR MORE INFORMATION: Kate Caldwell +1 215.913.6026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, September 1, 2010 – Ahold, a Royal Dutch company that owns supermarkets throughout the United States and Europe, is “dragging its feet on farmworker justice in its supply chain and attempting to co-opt the good name of a leading human rights organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), >> Read More

Modern-Day Slavery Museum Northeast Tour Days Twelve and Thirteen, New England

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Aug. 7-8, 2010 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288"] After a powerful Day Eleven of bi-continental Ahold actions, the tour crew continued its blitz through New England, making four stops in just two days.The first stop was at the largest of Providence's numerous farmers markets -- the Hope Street Market -- where community members gather every Saturday during the season to buy >> Read More