[caption id="attachment_34654" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A banner petition, signed by hundreds of Immokalee community members, declares "An injury to one is an injury to all," demanding accountability for the wrongful death of single father and Immokalee farmworker Nicolas Morales.  The banner will be delivered to the Collier County Sheriff's Office following a peaceful vigil today in Naples.[/caption] CIW's Lupe Gonzalo in >> Read More

Salucio: “The harsh reality is temperatures are rising and workers feel that and know it is happening” Naples Daily News article underscores the urgent need for enforceable, mandatory protections like those now made real by the Fair Food Program  Local article published on same day over 200 leading scientific and medical journals worldwide released unprecedented joint editorial calling rising temperatures >> Read More

Author and Ally Dr. Kerry Olitzky will donate proceeds from his new children's book,Waiting for El Colibrí, available in both English and Spanish! For more than 30 years, the CIW has been fortunate to count a wide variety of exceptionally talented writers, photographers, filmmakers, and artists among our ever-growing cadre of allies.  Their participation has contributed immeasurably to the extraordinary tradition of >> Read More

  Researchers: "[Worker-driven Social Responsibility]... is already proving to be an adaptable and resilient model for addressing forced labour in supply chains." "It is time to apply the lessons of a model that has been 'right under our noses.'"     In an article for United Nations University publication "Delta 8.7" (the name is a reference to Target 8.7 of  the >> Read More

  Sunripe Certified Brands and hundreds of workers at Smoky Mountain Family Farms welcome the CIW Education Team to Tennessee! Sunripe CEO, Jon Esformes: "[CIW] is our partner in making sure that we’re meeting and exceeding the highest standards of compliance, not just with the law, but with our moral and ethical responsibility as human beings." Tennessee farmworker: "Thank you >> Read More