Category: The birth of Worker-driven Social Responsibility: January – December 2016

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EEOC singles out Fair Food Program as “radically different accountability mechanism” in landmark report on harassment in the workplace!

EEOC singles out Fair Food Program as “radically different accountability mechanism” in landmark report on harassment in the workplace!

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[caption id="attachment_23058" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The CIW's Nely Rodriguez leads an anti-sexual violence training earlier this year at Pacific Tomato Growers, the first farm to join the Fair Food Program in 2010.[/caption] EEOC Select Task Force releases high-level report, recommendations draw heavily on example of enforcement-driven FFP model with focus on education, protected complaint system, and corrective action... Once again, a government >> Read More

Nearly 10,000 petition signatures supporting boycott delivered to Wendy’s CEO Todd Penegor by UU General Assembly!

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Unitarian Universalists from across the country hold lively picket, deliver boycott petition at Wendy's Headquarters...From the very first day of the national Wendy's Boycott back in March, the Unitarian Universalist community has been on the front lines of the growing fight for farm labor justice in the fast-food giant's supply chain, launching an online petition to gather support for the boycott and >> Read More

North Carolina: “We will keep fighting until Publix comes on board!”

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[caption id="attachment_24395" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Students and community members join the CIW in the Triangle Area of North Carolina to protest Publix[/caption]Scores of North Carolinians join CIW in tour of protests, delegations, to Publix across the Tarheel State... Hot on the heels of the recent Fair Food Program worker-to-worker education tour of the state, a group of CIW members and staff from the Alliance for Fair >> Read More

Unbound, national Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) online journal, amplifies call for Wendy’s Boycott…

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[caption id="attachment_24227" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Tony de la Rosa, Interim Executive Director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, speaking to crowds at last month's massive protest in front of the Wendy's shareholder meeting[/caption]"The church standing with us... is essential if we are to stop Wendy’s from profiting off of worker exploitation and to strengthen the human rights advances we have secured through the >> Read More

“We aren’t asking you to create the solution.  The solution already exists…”

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Kroger executives, shareholders faced with massive labor violations in supply chain...As Kroger shareholders poured into their annual meeting in Cincinnati last Thursday, they were greeted by some rather disturbing news from the company's supply chain: A Kroger tomato supplier in Florida by the name of Tomato Thyme -- operating, in theory, under the ever-watchful eye of Kroger's internal supply chain monitoring process -- >> Read More

CIW honored with prestigious 2016 James Beard Leadership Award!

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James Beard Foundation recognizes CIW co-founders Greg Asbed, Lucas Benitez, "For their innovative work in forging a new human rights model in the food industry supply chain..."Last week, the James Beard Foundation announced that it is recognizing CIW co-founders Greg Asbed and Lucas Benitez with its 2016 James Beard Annual Leadership Award!  Each year, the Foundation, which resides at the >> Read More

BREAKING: Hundreds of thousands of Unitarians worldwide endorse the Wendy’s Boycott!

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[caption id="attachment_22754" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Alliance for Fair Food in Orlando -- led by First Unitarian Church of Orlando, the University Unitarian Universalist Society, and Standing on the Side of Love (yellow-shirted participants on the top left) -- takes a great big selfie during a Wendy's protest[/caption]"It is an honor to accompany such a creative and resilient movement whose influence is global >> Read More

Got Milk with Dignity? Vermont’s Migrant Justice putting finishing touches on breakthrough dairy program…

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[caption id="attachment_24323" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Representatives of the CIW, the Fair Food Standards Council and Migrant Justice meet to discuss the soon-to-be-launched Milk with Dignity Program in the Vermont dairy industry.[/caption]From Florida tomatoes to Vermont dairy, Worker-driven Social Responsibility in the spotlight at food systems summit...Last week, members of the CIW, Migrant Justice, and the Fair Food Standards Council came together for >> Read More

“This Program should be everywhere…”

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CIW Worker-to-Worker Education Team takes human rights on the road...One week ago, as workers plucked the last buckets of tomatoes from vines here in Florida and the sun set on the state's 2015-2016 season, CIW education team members packed a van with their bags, boxes of education booklets and provisions for a week on the road, and headed north to Georgia and South and North Carolina.  The summer >> Read More

MEDIA ROUND-UP: Commentators across the World Wide Web take Publix, Wendy’s to task!

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  National news outlets, social media reflect growing wave of consumer action in Fair Food movement...  Between the slew of endorsements and actions in the Wendy's boycott, and the all-too-predictable headlines revealing systemic labor abuses in the fields of key Publix supplier Tomato Thyme, the Campaign for Fair Food has received its fair share of attention across the world wide web in the past several weeks, >> Read More