Category: “A brilliant model” at work: November 2013 – October 2014

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Second helpings from the Tribeca table…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Second helpings from the @TribecaFilmFestival table..." url="https://ciw-online.org"] The CIW's whirlwind weekend at last month's Tribeca film festival produced a tremendous wave of news and events that we covered at the time in this post from the scene.  But in moments of fast-moving events like the premiere of the new documentary "Food Chains" -- which itself came on the heels of the >> Read More

Royal Ahold executives sidestep the call for Fair Food — again!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Ahold sidesteps the call to join the #FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] At annual shareholder meeting in Amsterdam, Ahold executives insist CIW representative "speak English" when asking question on behalf of farmworkers, continue to reject "the best workplace monitoring Program in the U.S..." Farmworkers from Immokalee have been knocking on the door of Amsterdam-based Royal Ahold -- the international supermarket corporation that owns >> Read More

“If you can make it there”… New York embraces CIW, “Food Chains” at US premiere of new documentary!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="NY embraces @CIW, @FoodChainsFilm at @TribecaFilmFest!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=19310"] Eva Longoria headlines at Tribeca premiere, joins with New York Times to carry CIW all the way to #7 on the global Twitter trending list...  Last Friday, the New York Times featured -- on the front page and above the fold -- an excellent story on the CIW's Fair Food Program ("In Florida Tomato >> Read More
“This is the best workplace-monitoring program I’ve seen in the US”… Don’t miss today’s New York Times story on the Fair Food Program!

“This is the best workplace-monitoring program I’ve seen in the US”… Don’t miss today’s New York Times story on the Fair Food Program!

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[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Auditor from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with ensuring the implementation of hte Fair Food Program, conducting an interview with workers on a tomato farm in Florida[/caption] Front page New York Times story takes a close look at Fair Food Program, traces trajectory of Florida tomato industry "from being the worst >> Read More

Countdown begins to Saturday premiere of “Food Chains” at Tribeca Film Festival in NYC!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Countdown to @TribecaFilm begins! @FoodChainsFilm to premiere this week in #NYC..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=19276"] Tribeca Talks panel following premiere to feature Executive Producers Eva Longoria, Eric Schlosser and the CIW’s Gerardo Reyes… Here’s the media advisory, hot off the presses.  If you’re in the NYC area, we look forward to seeing you this weekend at the big premier!   U.S. PREMIERE >> Read More

“Effort to protect farmworkers from sexual assault is gaining momentum…”

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Short title" url="the URL"] "The Fair Food Program is a transformative, model program..." A study conducted in 2010 found that 80% of farmworker women report that they have experienced sexual harassment on the job.  That number is incomprehensible, until you stop to think of the immense imbalance of power between workers and their employers that defines most farm labor >> Read More

Fair Food Program “good for business…”

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Media round-up highlights Fair Food Nation's remarkable progress in first months of 2014... In January, Walmart signed a Fair Food agreement, adding the world's largest retailer to the growing list of food giants supporting the Fair Food Program.   In February, the documentary "Food Chains" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, introducing Europe to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and to >> Read More

Del Monte Fresh Produce joins Fair Food Program!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="@DelMonte joins #FairFoodProgram!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/04/del-monte"] Fair Food Program, Florida tomato industry continue to grow... together. From the national produce industry journal The Packer ("Del Monte inks deal with Coalition of Immokalee Workers," 4/8/14): Del Monte Fresh Produce NA Inc., is the latest Florida-based grower-shipper to strike a deal with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. In an April 8 news release, the Coral >> Read More

Why does the US Chamber of Commerce hate America? (apologies to Stephen Colbert…)

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Why does the US Chamber of Commerce Hate America?" url="https://ciw-online.org/?=19127"] If the Fair Food Program is good for Florida tomato growers, good for American food corporations, and good for American workers, why has the Chamber of Commerce teamed up with other Washington lobbying groups to attack the CIW? In Part One of this two-part series, we established the business >> Read More

Part One: “The New Day is not something that’s going to happen, the New Day is happening right now”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Extreme Makeover of the Florida tomato industry, Part One..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=19054"]   Since 2010, a metamorphosis has been underway in the Florida tomato industry, while in Mexico the industry's counterpart has only sunk deeper into a morass of violence, corruption, poverty, and exploitation... The quotation at the top of this post came from the Rev. Roy Terry of the United >> Read More