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Produce Industry Journal “The Packer” seeks CIW opinion on latest Florida-based forced labor operation…

Posted on January 12, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

“This is not the first federal prosecution for forced labor that the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has uncovered and helped investigate, but the thirteenth,” CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez told The Packer. “The truth is, modern-day slavery remains a systemic problem in agriculture, and that problem is only going to continue to grow with the expansion of the H-2A program. But >> Read More

A donation today helps workers build the future. Here’s how…

Posted on December 28, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

As the clock winds down on a tumultuous 2022, we here at the CIW are nearing the end of our year-end campaign to raise $100,000 dollars to support our crucial work in the pivotal year ahead. And to give you a clear idea of where your gift will go and whom it will help, we want to take a moment >> Read More

At nine crops and counting, the Fair Food Program is a lot more than “just tomatoes”! Help us cover more!

Posted on December 21, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Across the United States (and beyond!), new farms are lining up to join the Fair Food Program. What began as a vision to protect farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida, has expanded not only to cover the vast majority of tomato harvesters in the CIW's home state, but also workers on farms from New Jersey to California. As new growers join the >> Read More

CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo: Taking action with consumer allies “made me feel powerful… – and inspired me to keep fighting for human rights.”

Posted on December 16, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28852" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Lupe Gonzalo speaks at a Campaign for Fair Food rally in 2018.[/caption] The first time I left the town of Immokalee – and it wasn't to look for work in agricultural fields up north – was for a Campaign for Fair Food action with the CIW in 2011. From the very first day I took my >> Read More

Part One: New Academic Article Highlights the Success of the WSR Model in Securing Dignity in the Fields

Posted on November 21, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Business and Human Rights Journal: “…WSR programs are better at enforcement than corporate-established initiatives, resulting in real-life improvements for workers.” “The Fair Food Program’s recent expansion to several new states and crops suggests that more companies are seeing its value.” “…the short time frames for complaint resolution in the Fair Food Program (51 per cent of cases resolved within 13 days) and >> Read More

BREAKING: Justice Department Announces 3 Florida Farm Bosses “Sentenced in Multi-State Racketeering Conspiracy Involving Forced Labor” of H-2A Workers

Posted on November 2, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

“These defendants exploited their victims’ vulnerabilities and immigration status, promising them access to the American dream but then turning around and confiscating their passports and threatening arrest and deportation if they did not endlessly toil away for their profit,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Using coercive, deceptive and fraudulent practices to exploit >> Read More

Will Aussies welcome Wendy’s after learning about its morally suspect human rights record?

Posted on September 21, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35391" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Hundreds of farmworkers and consumers march in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 2, 2022, to demand Wendy's join the Fair Food Program and help end modern-day slavery in the fields.[/caption] As Wendy's sets its eyes on expansion to Australia, the fast-food chain's reputation as a human rights laggard precedes it, making waves Down Under… The Brag >> Read More

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Have you ever dreamed of working on the cutting edge of human rights? The exponential expansion of the Fair Food Program is creating new job openings! We're hiring new staff to learn and work alongside farmworkers and community members, while simultaneously helping to grow a national movement for Fair Food. We need passionate, driven individuals more than ever, committed to >> Read More

Day 8: Justice in a Bottle

Posted on June 29, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

A few weeks ago, the Fair Food Movement hit a major new milestone: the very first packaged food to bear the FFP label. We are honored to welcome Soupergirl, the plant-based soup and gazpacho company, into the Fair Food Program – and could not have asked for a more visionary partner. Here’s what company co-founder Sara Polon said in a >> Read More

Harvard Law report on 2023 Farm Bill issues full-throated endorsement of the Fair Food Program and its “proven worker-driven enforcement mechanisms”!

Posted on June 9, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Harvard-based policy consortium calls on Congress, US Department of Agriculture to help drive expansion of FFP and other WSR initiatives in agriculture: "By incentivizing the growth of WSR [Worker-driven Social Responsibility] initiatives and focusing attention at the “top” of the supply chain — specifically, by preferentially providing the many forms of financial support government provides to those farms that join >> Read More