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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!

[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
How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

[caption id="attachment_37533" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers on a participating farm in Georgia participate in an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session on their rights under the Fair Food Program, including discussion of the Program's best-in-class heat illness protections.[/caption] Leo Perez, CIW: "We see the Fair Food Program as... both a method of education... to share information with workers about these risks, and at >> Read More
Fair Food Program expansion makes headlines in Colorado!

Fair Food Program expansion makes headlines in Colorado!

[caption id="attachment_37228" align="aligncenter" width="900"] CIW staff provide on-the-clock education to workers on their rights at Tuxedo Corn, 2022.[/caption] Gwen Cameron, owner,Rancho Durazno: “It’s a good way to communicate our values to our customers. I think the general public has become more aware of and interested in the treatment of ag workers and the Fair Food Program made me realize we need >> Read More
“We are making history”: Week-long visit to birthplace of Fair Food Program by Chilean delegation helps fuel FFP expansion

“We are making history”: Week-long visit to birthplace of Fair Food Program by Chilean delegation helps fuel FFP expansion

[caption id="attachment_37003" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A delegation of Chilean growers, human rights advocates, and government officials gather with CIW and Fair Food Standards Council representatives, Fair Food Program Participating Buyers and Growers, and US government officials outside the offices of the CIW in Immokalee, FL[/caption] "We are making history," said Angel Garcia, Human Resources Manager at Pacific Tomato Growers/Sunripe Certified Brands.  >> Read More
The nation’s only organic vertical farm partners with the Fair Food Program!

The nation’s only organic vertical farm partners with the Fair Food Program!

Halton Peters, Co-founder and President of Hardee Fresh: “We want to be the best steward of the environment in the agricultural industry and the best citizen in the communities in which we live and work. Participation in the Fair Food Program furthers our pursuit of our goals and is just the most recent expression of our longstanding core beliefs.” Leonel Perez, >> Read More
Summer Roundup: 6 Stories You May Have Missed

Summer Roundup: 6 Stories You May Have Missed

[caption id="attachment_35740" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Members of the CIW education team in action in Georgia last month.[/caption]   Today we're catching up with six recent stories featuring CIW and the Fair Food Program. Read (and listen) on!   The CEO Who Wants Us to Care More About the Humanity Behind Our Food New FFP partner Sara Polon (Soupergirl) had a spicy >> Read More
PHOTO REPORT: Student/Farmworker Alliance turns up the heat on Wendy’s with National Week of Action!

PHOTO REPORT: Student/Farmworker Alliance turns up the heat on Wendy’s with National Week of Action!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="795"] Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill stage a theater skit on the steps of UNC Chancellor Folt’s office to highlight the University’s complicity in human rights abuses.[/caption] Hundreds of students, young people from Coast to Coast get creative in Wendy's Boycott during "Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy's" National Week of Action! >> Read More
“A movement, not a moment”: Lessons from the Fair Food Program for the growing fight against sexual harassment and assault in the workplace…

“A movement, not a moment”: Lessons from the Fair Food Program for the growing fight against sexual harassment and assault in the workplace…

[caption id="attachment_27429" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW staff members and Fair Food Program educators (from right to left) Nely Rodriguez, Silvia Perez, Leonel Perez, Cruz Salucio, and Mathieu Beaucicot stand outside the CIW office in Immokalee.[/caption] As the New York Times rang in the New Year with a story announcing the organization of an exciting new coalition of "300 prominent actresses and female agents, >> Read More

Rolling student fast of 2017 takes its place in storied annals of fight for Fair Food…

Weeklong fast at Ohio State University tapped into Dr. King's "power in the universe that works for justice" and inspired a month-long movement on over a dozen college campuses;Fast forges new leaders for the fight ahead, lays the groundwork for a student-led surge in the Wendy's Boycott this fall! A little historical context...Following the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory in 1956 -- a year-long >> Read More

“We are tired of hate, so we march”…

  PHOTO REPORT:  Immokalee community takes to the streets as part of national mobilization for immigrant rights! Nearly 250 workers and allies call for dignity and justice with colorful march through the heart of Immokalee.  In conjunction with immigrant communities in over 300 cities nationwide, Immokalee residents took to the streets on Monday to celebrate May 1st, giving the traditional celebration of labor a >> Read More