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Washington Post heralds Fair Food Program’s groundbreaking heat illness prevention standards!

Washington Post heralds Fair Food Program’s groundbreaking heat illness prevention standards!

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[caption id="attachment_37735" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers in GA attending an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session on their rights under the Fair Food Program[/caption] Washington Post, "These farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules," 2/17/24: * "Leonel Pérez remembers when conditions on tomato farms were very different. He started picking tomatoes when he was 20. Summers were hot and humid. Workers sometimes fainted >> Read More
Media Roundup: How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are transforming agriculture

Media Roundup: How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are transforming agriculture

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[caption id="attachment_37368" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Workers inside the FFP receive on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education on their rights inside the program, which includes rigorous and enforceable heat stress protections.[/caption] The Invading Sea: "A solution is hiding in plain sight on farms in the supply chains of major corporations participating in the Fair Food Program" This summer has brought deadly heat across much of >> Read More
Protecting farmworkers on the frontlines of climate change

Protecting farmworkers on the frontlines of climate change

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Lupe Gonzalo: “For years, those with greater economic and political power have taken on a great debt from Nature. The moment has arrived to pay the price, but the least powerful and poorest in society are those that are having to pay…  For vulnerable communities like ours, we have to find solutions together to protect ourselves against the effects of >> Read More
Relief from the Heat!…

Relief from the Heat!…

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[caption id="attachment_34477" align="alignleft" width="2000"] A Fair Food Program Education Team member meets with workers in Tennessee at Smoky Mountain Farms earlier this summer.[/caption] Fair Food Program sets new, enforceable standards to protect farmworkers from heat stress in a warming world... New FFP standards require mandatory breaks, comprehensive training, and emergency response protocols on participating farms as summer season temperatures once >> Read More
CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo: “The bodies of farmworkers are not so different from the Earth, which has endured years of contamination…”

CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo: “The bodies of farmworkers are not so different from the Earth, which has endured years of contamination…”

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[caption id="attachment_34157" align="aligncenter" width="794"] A popular education drawing used by CIW staff when doing worker-to-worker education in the fields as a part of the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Gonzalo: "... For years, those with greater economic and political power have taken on a great debt from Nature. The moment has arrived to pay the price, but the least powerful and poorest >> Read More

BOYCOTT!… Farmworkers, consumers declare national boycott of fast-food giant Wendy’s!

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[caption id="attachment_23449" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Farmworkers and consumers nearly 500 strong march past Radio City Music Hall on their way to the Park Avenue offices of Wendy's Board Chairman Nelson Peltz.[/caption]CIW to Wendy's: "We are here to remind Nelson Peltz that there is something more important than money:  Dignity!" As the sun began to dip behind New York's skyscrapers yesterday afternoon, hundreds upon >> Read More

“Publix must turn from its pride and arrogance and turn towards its partners in business, the workers from Immokalee…”

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="1000 marchers in #Lakeland: @Publix must turn from its pride and arrogance..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18828"] 24-hr vigil at Publix ends with march of 1,000 through downtown Lakeland!   The 10-day, 10-city Now Is the Time Tour ended Saturday with a massive march through the heart of Lakeland, Florida.  Responding to the marchers' infectious high spirits and passionate call for human rights >> Read More
Will Aussies welcome Wendy’s after learning about its morally suspect human rights record?

Will Aussies welcome Wendy’s after learning about its morally suspect human rights record?

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[caption id="attachment_35391" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Hundreds of farmworkers and consumers march in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 2, 2022, to demand Wendy's join the Fair Food Program and help end modern-day slavery in the fields.[/caption] As Wendy's sets its eyes on expansion to Australia, the fast-food chain's reputation as a human rights laggard precedes it, making waves Down Under… The Brag >> Read More
VICTORY! After years-long student campaign, Wendy’s will no longer have a home at Florida Atlantic University…

VICTORY! After years-long student campaign, Wendy’s will no longer have a home at Florida Atlantic University…

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Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Student/Farmworker Alliance: “About a week after the action in Palm Beach, a few SFA members at FAU confirmed with a Chartwells representative, our food service provider, that Wendy’s will not return to the Boca Raton campus. The news caused major excitement, especially because generations of students have organized to make this a reality.” We’ve had quite >> Read More