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PHOTO REPORT: No Labor Day holiday respite for Wendy’s!

Posted on September 12, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Over long weekend, farmworkers, communities of faith across the country celebrate holiday with powerful message for fast food giant...Keeping with a longstanding tradition, the Fair Food Nation celebrated Labor Day last week the way it was intended: In action! From Boston, Massachusetts, to Columbus, Ohio, and sunny Immokalee, Florida, consumers turned a spotlight on the back-breaking, invaluable work of farm laborers, and on Wendy's unconscionable failure to >> Read More

Labor Day picket kicks off fall season for Campaign for Fair Food!

Posted on September 9, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22606" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW Women’s Group member, Marta, at Sunday’s Labor Day picket at Publix[/caption]“… It is with these very hands that I supply the tomatoes that you use, from which you profit…”On Monday, we shared a powerful reflection on the global movement for workers’ human rights and the Fair Food Program’s worker-driven, market-powered model — but that was >> Read More

Better late than never… A Labor Day action report from the Publix AND Wendy’s fronts!

Posted on September 8, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title="Better late than never... A Labor Day action report from the @Publix and @Wendys fronts!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/09/labor-day/"] After a relatively quiet summer -- punctuated, of course, by some great protests around the country -- the Fair Food Nation marked the end of the season with two gorgeous, creative actions for Labor Day (yes, we know Labor Day was last weekend, but we had a busy week >> Read More

On the wrong side of history…

Posted on September 11, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="When history passes by..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16177"] Publix stuck in 2009 as historic changes sweep through the Florida agricultural industry Labor Day Weekend of Action video, messages from CIW members capture spirit of change lost on Florida's grocery giant Four years ago -- after several years of private letters requesting a dialogue with Publix leaders on the Campaign for Fair Food >> Read More

Carry on Dr. King’s legacy this Labor Day by marching for farmworker justice!

Posted on August 29, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="This Labor Day, tell Publix it's time to join the Fair Food Program!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16013"] This weekend, don't forget to tell Publix that it's time to join the Fair Food Program! Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, a march that has rightly gone down in history as one of the greatest actions for social justice of the >> Read More

Labor Day 2009 – Labor Day 2013: Four years of unprecedented progress in Florida’s fields, four years of unconscionable resistance from Florida’s “hometown grocer” Publix…

Posted on August 23, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#LaborDay '09 - Labor Day '13" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=15970"] Farmworkers, consumers ready for protests across the state of Florida this Labor Day weekend calling on Publix to end the excuses and join the Fair Food Program! Last Labor Day, Holly Burkhalter of the International Justice Mission concluded her Washington Post op/ed on the CIW's Fair Food Program with the following paragraph: >> Read More