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Publix customers can advocate perfectly well for themselves, thank you…

Posted on April 8, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

FGCU professor takes Publix to task for hollow public relations responses to Fair Food Program In a recent article looking at Publix's growing competition with Walmart on prices, Publix spokesperson Shannon Patten was quoted as saying: "We position ourselves as customer advocates by challenging cost increases from suppliers and making sure such increases are justified," Patten said. "We have been >> Read More

The March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food is a Wrap…

Posted on March 20, 2013August 27, 2020 by CIW

Epic fifteen-day journey, huge final day lift Publix campaign to new level, inspire thousands of new leaders in fight for Fair Food! The fifteen-day, 200-mile March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food came to a loud, colorful, and jubilant end on Sunday, March 17th outside Publix corporate headquarters in Lakeland. The final day began with a 6-mile march through the >> Read More

March for Rights, Respect & Fair Food

Posted on March 18, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

From March 3 - 17, 2013, the CIW and allies marched 200 miles from Ft. Myers to Lakeland, calling on Publix to join the New Day and sign a Fair Food Agreement! Check out some of the quick links below, or visit the full march site at https://www.ciw-online.org/march. Photo Reports Videos Updates for each day of the March MARCH 3 >> Read More

November 12 Publix Action

Posted on November 12, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

"We knocked once and the door was closed..." Allies from the Unitarian Universalist congregations from across Florida joined farmworkers from Immokalee and their families this past Saturday in Port Charlotte, FL, calling on Publix to not only come to the Thanksgiving table, but to join the 11 corporate buyers at the table of the Fair Food Program. "... but we >> Read More

Fast for Fair Food

Posted on March 15, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

In 2012, over 50 workers and allies fasted for 6 days in front of the Publix headquarters.Visit the full march site at https://www.ciw-online.org/march. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] Day 1 of the Fast[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] Day 2 of the Fast[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] Day 3 of the Fast[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] Day 4 of the Fast[/caption] [caption >> Read More

Farmworkers, Religious Leaders, Consumers to hold 6-day “Fast for Fair Food” outside Publix Corporate Headquarters

Posted on February 27, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

MEDIA CONTACT Gerardo Reyes (Coalition of Immokalee Workers), 239-503-0950 Marc Rodrigues (Coalition of Immokalee Workers), 239-292-3431 www.ciw-online.org/fast | workers@ciw-online.org Fast to make moral appeal in light of Publix's unconscionable rejection of groundbreaking Fair Food Program; Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, to take part in March 10th ceremony breaking the fast "... Theirs [Publix] is a morally >> Read More

Publix Protest Naples, FL

Posted on February 12, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

What might have, at first glance, looked like just another Publix protest was in fact something very different yesterday in Naples, Florida... ... different because it came in the wake of last week's big news that the Trader Joe's and the CIW had signed a Fair Food Agreement! That news raised spirits across the Fair Food movement, and perhaps nowhere >> Read More

Publix Protest Sarasota, FL

Posted on November 13, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Another new Publix store opened in Florida this past week, and helium-filled green and white balloons filled the air as always. But this time there was something different about the message behind the balloons... ... this time, the balloons were there to make consumers think, not just react -- to think about the people who pick the food they eat >> Read More

CIW response to Trader Joe’s announcement of Oct. 21, 2011:

Posted on October 26, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Hypocrisy is not sustainable... In Trader Joe’s latest public relations communiqué, issued the day before hundreds of Fair Food activists marched to its corporate headquarters in Monrovia, CA, the retailer now claims it is complying fully with the CIW’s Fair Food Program, but that it is simply doing so without the CIW. No partnership. No verification. No commitment. Just Trader >> Read More

Fair Pay Program Honorable

Posted on September 30, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

news-press.com In our Sept. 23 editorial "Workers deserve back pay," we expressed alarm at a lawsuit filed, claiming that certain farmworkers hadn't been paid per the extra "penny-a-pound" pact negotiated by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers with tomato buyers. The allegations were shocking - and while the coalition was not named as a defendant - buyers such as Burger King, >> Read More