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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

Kroger executives reject Fair Food Program (again), offer yet more empty answers at annual shareholder meeting…

Posted on June 29, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@Kroger executives reject @FairFoodProgram (again) at Annual Shareholder Meeting" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/kroger-shareholder/"]Kroger CEO: “We expect all our suppliers... to follow our strict code of conduct...”Farmworkers and their consumer allies have attended countless shareholder meetings over the years, from the very first shareholder actions back in the Taco Bell Boycott days, to the Wendy's annual meeting earlier this month in Dublin, Ohio. But no >> Read More

Out with the old…

Posted on January 6, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#HappyNewYear! Take a look back at #FairFoodNation during busy & wildly successful #2013 " url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17719"] Not so fast! We take a look back at 2013 -- the year the Fair Food Program proved its mettle and won acclaim from the White House to the United Nations -- before heading into what is sure to be a huge 2014... The >> Read More

Myth #3: Corporations can be trusted to investigate, and to determine any appropriate corrective action, when their suppliers violate their workers’ human rights.

Posted on May 7, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Myth #3: Corporations can be trusted to unilaterally investigate, and to determine any appropriate corrective action, when their suppliers violate their workers' human rights. In the third and final installment of our series, "The Three Founding Myths of Corporate-Led Social Responsibility," we turn to the fundamental question: Who can be trusted to protect workers' rights in corporate supply chains? Can the corporations themselves >> Read More

Myth #2: The market price, by definition, is a “fair price”

Posted on May 3, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Myth #2: The market price, by definition, is a "fair price" It is time, again, to return to our our continuing series, "The Three Founding Myths of Corporate-Led Social Responsibility," the series we began in response to Ahold's statement on the Campaign for Fair Food, issued in the run up to its recent shareholders' meeting in Amsterdam. When we launched the series, we wrote: >> Read More