modernfarmer.com/2024/06/farmwo…

'Extreme heat is one of the most dangerous factors for farmworkers during the hot summer months. We need to act now to protect these workers and our food supply.'

A new op-ed in Modern Farmer lays out the urgent importance of expanding the Fair Food Program

ciw-online.org/blog/2024/06/a…

A farmworker and a farm owner sharing a stage to talk about their partnership is a rare sight. Indeed, for generations such a sight coming from FL's fields was unthinkable. But that’s exactly what happened last week for a TED Talk on the Fair Food Program

ciw-online.org/blog/2024/06/h…

'Workers everywhere deserve safety, dignity, and a fair wage: with the emergence of WSR, they now have a novel tool... to usher in a new day of real, measurable human rights enforcement in the global economy.'
WSR Network ICAR

📢New Blog Alert!

CSR and MSI models have largely failed to prevent rights abuses in global supply chains, but workers have forged a scalable solution to this systemic problem: Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR).

Read the full blog by Coalition of Immokalee Workers here: bit.ly/4cgZdTJ

Join us for the 2024 Encuentro!
Immokalee, FL ☀︎ Aug. 30 - Sep. 2, 2024

Calling all students, farmworker allies, and champions of Fair Food: the Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro is back!

Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Here is Grey Moran of Civil Eats outlining the unique partnership of the Fair Food Program, which empowers workers to be the frontline monitors of their own rights, and includes heat stress protections mandating rest breaks, bathrooms, shade, water, and electrolytes for workers.

Here is Grey Moran of Civil Eats outlining the unique partnership of the Fair Food Program, which empowers workers to be the frontline monitors of their own rights, and includes heat stress protections mandating rest breaks, bathrooms, shade, water, and electrolytes for workers.

Moran’s reporting highlights the Fair Food Program, a groundbreaking partnership between retailers, farmers, and farmworkers that implemented the strongest, legally binding heat protocols in the nation on Florida’s farms. civileats.com/2024/03/20/flo…

fox4now.com/immokalee/work…

'Watermelon farms aren’t in Coalition of Immokalee Workers's Fair Food Program - which means they do not have program protection for things like safe transportation.'

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Accidents like these remind us that it is time for retailers who buy melons to demand that their suppliers bring their operations into the 21st century of basic safety compliance, and to ensure farmworkers’ safety in the fields and while being transported.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers fights abuses in the field, wage theft, & forced labor, campaigning against powerful food-industry corporations for top-down structural change. Read about the Fair Food Program in our interview w/ three @CIW leaders: buff.ly/3K66H09