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Responsible investors: “Wendy’s must join the (Fair Food) program as soon as possible”…

Responsible investors: “Wendy’s must join the (Fair Food) program as soon as possible”…

[caption id="attachment_22698" align="aligncenter" width="800"] An FFSC auditor speaks with a tomato harvester on a Fair Food Program farm.[/caption] Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Investors Alliance on Human Rights pen powerful letter to Wendy’s CEO, Board Chair following visit to Immokalee to meet with CIW, study Fair Food Program... "We recognize that Wendy’s has its own Code of Business Conduct and >> Read More
CIW, Fair Food Program in the news….

CIW, Fair Food Program in the news….

[caption id="attachment_30902" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Farmworkers from Immokalee and their consumer allies rally outside Trian's offices during last November's What Are You Hiding, Wendy's? march.[/caption] It's time again for a media round-up!... When stories on the CIW or the Fair Food Program slip through the cracks in the seemingly infinite reaches of the internet, this site will always be there to >> Read More
Dispatches from the student front in the fight for Fair Food ahead of huge Follow the Money March!

Dispatches from the student front in the fight for Fair Food ahead of huge Follow the Money March!

Student/Farmworker Alliance leaders convene in Immokalee for a face-to-face planning weekend on the Wendy’s Boycott! Student/Farmworker Alliance leaders from across the country come together to turn up the pressure on Wendy's! Anyone who knows anything about the two-decade old Campaign for Fair Food knows the all-important leadership role students have played in winning the legally-binding agreements -- with now fourteen >> Read More
TED Ideas lifts up Fair Food Program, Worker-driven Social Responsibility as transformative human rights model!

TED Ideas lifts up Fair Food Program, Worker-driven Social Responsibility as transformative human rights model!

TED Ideas: "Many farmworkers in the US receive inadequate wages and experience harassment, violence and even sexual assault. But thanks to the Fair Food Program, which signs up big companies like McDonald’s and Taco Bell, conditions in the tomato fields in several states have been reformed. Here’s how it works — and how you can do your part..." Last February, >> Read More
2019 in review, Part 2: The strength of the Fair Food Nation

2019 in review, Part 2: The strength of the Fair Food Nation

[caption id="attachment_30871" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Young Fair Food leaders chant and sing during a Wendy's Boycott action in New York City.[/caption] In 2020, you can support the country's most powerful consumer movement: the Campaign for Fair Food. Donate today! The Campaign for Fair Food – the product of a carefully constructed alliance between farmworkers in Florida and a network of tens >> Read More
2019 in review, Part 1: Building power in the farmworker community at the heart of the Fair Food Nation!

2019 in review, Part 1: Building power in the farmworker community at the heart of the Fair Food Nation!

[caption id="attachment_30997" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The CIW Women's Group takes to the mic at this month's celebration of 16 years of CIW's "Consciousness Radio" 107.7.[/caption] Donate today to help farmworkers in Immokalee continue to build power in 2020! In these final days of a jam-packed 2019 for the Fair Food Nation, we are taking a four-part look back on what has >> Read More
BREAKING: Park Slope Food Coop in NYC joins forces with CIW to support, expand award-winning Fair Food Program!

BREAKING: Park Slope Food Coop in NYC joins forces with CIW to support, expand award-winning Fair Food Program!

[caption id="attachment_30813" align="aligncenter" width="800"] In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the CIW and New York City's fabled Park Slope Food Coop – one of the country's largest, longest-running consumer cooperatives – are launching a new partnership in support of the CIW's groundbreaking Fair Food Program that will blaze a path for consumer coops and local food retailers across the country to promote >> Read More
Fair Food Standards Council issues Season 7 Annual Report!

Fair Food Standards Council issues Season 7 Annual Report!

[caption id="attachment_30750" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Featured in the newly-released 2018 Fair Food Program Annual Report, the above graph shows the rate of overall compliance within the Fair Food Program. The graph tracks the hard-won progress of an industry moving from a world with virtually no protections for farmworkers' human rights to one in which human rights are the new normal.[/caption] Report >> Read More
Time’s Up Entertainment:  Fair Food Program an “inspiration” for entertainment industry!

Time’s Up Entertainment: Fair Food Program an “inspiration” for entertainment industry!

[caption id="attachment_28169" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Farmworkers and consumers march in the streets of New York City during the 2018 Time's Up Wendy's March, demanding that the fast food giant Wendy's help to end sexual harassment in the fields by joining the Fair Food Program.  The Time's Up Wendy's March came at the height of the national #MeToo movement, in which workers >> Read More
Blockbuster new cookbook by Chef José Andrés highlights CIW and Fair Food Program!…

Blockbuster new cookbook by Chef José Andrés highlights CIW and Fair Food Program!…

New York Times bestseller: "Fair Food Program... takes direct aim at the food system's gravest injustices and holds major retailers accountable for the food they sell." Chef José Andrés – the irrepressible, James Beard Award-winning, Spanish chef who, among many other things in his non-stop mission to feed and change the world, traveled to Puerto Rico in the wake of >> Read More