[caption id="attachment_37360" align="aligncenter" width="900"] CIW staff member Lupe Gonzalo provides an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session at Tuxedo Corn, CO.[/caption] Lucas Benitez, CIW co-founder: “As workers ourselves – the men and women who built this new model and experienced this remarkable change – we are excited to continue the dialogue with workers around the globe about how they can transform their industries >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_37369" align="aligncenter" width="900"] An on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session trains farmworkers on the FFP's protections, including its heat stress standards[/caption] Gerardo Reyes Chávez, CIW, in Civil Eats: “[Farmworkers in the FFP] don’t feel pressure to keep working under conditions that are placing their lives and their health at risk. And that’s fundamentally different from what happens outside of the program." Civil >> Read More

1) COME TO THE FESTIVAL! If you’re in Florida, register today to join farmworkers and their allies for three days of celebrating farmworkers’ human rights and the Fair Food Program 2) DONATE: If you’re unable to participate in person, you can join our campaign to raise funds for the festival's needs 3) SEND A SOLIDARITY MESSAGE: Write a message or send a >> Read More

[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

[caption id="attachment_37696" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Compass and Foodbuy representatives visited Immokalee to see the Fair Food Program's industry-leading workplace protections in action. Here, delegation members join CIW and Pacific Tomato Growers representatives for a photo during a farm visit to Pacific's operations outside Immokalee, where they saw a worker-to-worker education session and toured the fields.[/caption] “As a long-standing participating buyer in >> Read More