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“We want these changes to exist not only for Florida farmworkers, but for all farmworkers…”

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[hupso title=".@FairFoodProgram team hits the road as FFP begins expansion northward!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/ffp-education-up-north/"] Fair Food Program Education team hits the road, leads the way as the FFP begins its expansion north out of Florida! This week, the Fair Food Program passed a truly extraordinary milestone, and it was marked, quite literally, with a road sign that read, “Welcome to Georgia!” The >> 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
“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!

“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!

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[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

The Nation, Ozy weigh in on the Fair Food Program!

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[caption id="attachment_26858" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A farmworker harvesting grape tomatoes on a Fair Food Program farm.[/caption] "The Coalition’s work has implications for what we eat, how we define sustainability and who should be accountable for workplace abuse..." The news out of Immokalee of last week's groundbreaking agreement with Walmart -- an agreement that not only added Walmart's unequaled market power to >> Read More

American history happens in a watermelon shed…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="World responds to @Walmart joining #FairFoodProgram! Press, statements, social media..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17932"] The world responds to news of the Walmart agreement! [caption id="attachment_17944" align="aligncenter" width="530"] A member of the Walmart delegation holds the Fair Food Program rights booklet during a meeting among CIW members, Florida tomato growers, Walmart representatives, and the Chairperson of the UN's Working Group on Business and >> Read More

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Immokalee Workers Announces Walmart to Join Groundbreaking Fair Food Program

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NEWS RELEASE: January 16, 2014   MEDIA CONTACT: Coalition of Immokalee Workers Greg Asbed, 239-986-2364, greg@ciw-online.org Julia Perkins, 239-986-0891, Julia@ciw-online.org Walmart Walmart Media Relations 1-800-331-0085   Coalition of Immokalee Workers Announces Walmart to Join Groundbreaking Fair Food Program  [Statement by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights on today’s announcement follows at the end of this release] [caption >> Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Walmart joins CIW’s Fair Food Program!

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[hupso title="History in the making: @Walmart joins @CIW's #FairFoodProgram, strengthens groundbreaking #humanrights model" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17859"] World's largest retailer to put unprecedented market power behind groundbreaking Fair Food Program; Will work with CIW "to strengthen and expand" the FFP beyond Florida and into new crops! [video mp4="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/Walmart-Signing_vid.mp4.mp4" webm="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/Walmart-Signing_vid.webmhd.webm" ogg="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/Walmart-Signing_vid.webmhd.webm" poster="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/walmart-signing-screen-shot.png" width="523" height="294" loop="true" controls="false" preload="true" skin="native" align="center"] Walmart representatives John Amaya (left), >> Read More