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

[caption id="attachment_34433" align="alignleft" width="6000"] Nicolas Morales's brother speaks to over 100 friends, family members, and supporters from Immokalee, Naples, and Ft. Myers at a vigil held in Immokalee earlier this year.[/caption] Nearly a year has passed without justice for Nicolas Morales, gunned down by Collier County Sheriff's deputy who remains on the job, and in our streets, today... Leaving bad >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_34477" align="alignleft" width="2000"] A Fair Food Program Education Team member meets with workers in Tennessee at Smoky Mountain Farms earlier this summer.[/caption] Fair Food Program sets new, enforceable standards to protect farmworkers from heat stress in a warming world... New FFP standards require mandatory breaks, comprehensive training, and emergency response protocols on participating farms as summer season temperatures once >> 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

Farmworker leaders hit the road for San Francisco, Columbus and New York City this fall for a series of educational events and actions in the Wendy’s Boycott in the "Essential Rights for Essential Farmworkers" Tour! As the Fair Food Program continues to grow and change the lives of more and more farmworkers in new states and new crops, including tomatoes in >> Read More