A student Fair Food activist holds up a slice of tomato during last year’s debate on the Student Senate resolution calling on Ararmark to work with the CIW.

Pace quickens as Campaign for Fair Food enters the final month before the launch of the “Do the Right Thing Tour”!

University of Florida student government passes resolution calling on Publix to work with CIW!

Student government leaders at the University of Florida in Gainesville have once again used their office to demand fair wages and humane working conditions for the state’s farmworkers.

The UF Student Senate passed a resolution Tuesday night calling on Publix to:

“… meet with the CIW and agree to improve the wages and working conditions of the Florida tomato pickers in its supply chain by agreeing to pay at least one penny more per pound for its tomatoes – to be passed directly to the workers – and, together with the CIW, implement an enforceable, human rights-based Code of Conduct for its supply chain.” read more

In framing the resolution, the student representatives pointed out that not only had they successfully made the same demand last year of UF foodservice provider Aramark, but that, “there are thirteen Publix stores in Gainesville, and UF students constitute almost 50% of the total City of Gainesville population.”

You can read the full text of the resolution here.

You can also read coverage of the vote here and here.

Sounds like the University of Florida is fixing to send a healthy contingent down I-75 to Tampa for two days of exciting Publix action, March 4-5, as the “Do the Right Thing Tour” wraps up in Publix’s backyard!