[video width="1280" height="720" align="center" mp4="http://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/WY6HOl.mp4" loop="true" autoplay="true"][/video] Dear friends, Each day this week, we have revisited a significant moment in the CIW's 25-year history, moments that, when taken together, tell the remarkable story of a small organization in a dirt-poor farmworker community on the edge of the Everglades that managed to build common cause with consumers across the country to >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_29348" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Jon Esformes (left), Operating Partner of Pacific Tomato Growers, shakes hands with the CIW’s Lucas Benitez on August 12, 2010, after signing a groundbreaking agreement to implement the Fair Food Code of Conduct on Pacific’s farms.[/caption] “The wall comes tumbling down.” “Victory long time coming for Florida tomato pickers.” “Tomato grower, harvesters strike historic accord.” Those >> Read More

Dear friends, 25 years ago, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers was born in a series of community meetings, held in a cramped, corner room in the back of Immokalee's Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.  The arc of the CIW's history since those early days – from those modest first meetings to the CIW's leading role today on the global >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_29221" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Over 60 UNC-Chapel Hill students, professors and Triangle-area community leaders hold a protest in support of the “Boot the Braids” campaign to remove Wendy’s from campus until the company joins the award-winning Fair Food Program. Oct. 25, 2018.[/caption] Ohio State, UNC - Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, University of Florida students fight to remove Wendy’s from >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_23862" align="aligncenter" width="796"] A Fair Food Program label (above, left) identifies FFP strawberries, headed for Whole Foods. The label came years after farmworkers and consumers took collective action to create the Fair Food Program, using the power of the market to protect workers at the bottom of global supply chains.[/caption] CIW's "efforts use supply-chain reform to eliminate sexual harassment, >> Read More