Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based farmworker organization, for a discussion of their award-winning worker-driven social responsibility model to verifiably protect the human rights of agricultural workers. The CIW's Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program is a groundbreaking partnership among farmers, farmworkers, and retail food companies that ensures humane wages and working conditions for the workers who pick fruits and vegetables on participating farms. Recognized as "an international benchmark" for human rights protection by the United Nations, the Fair Food Program has also been widely recognized as the single most effective program combating sexual abuse in agriculture today.
We'll discuss the CIW's history, the Fair Food Program's successful model for change and its potential for implementation in other industries, and group's current "Harvest without Violence" campaign to end sexual violence in Wendy's supply chain. Wendy's is the only major fast food chain that still refuses to join the Fair Food Program. Last year, the CIW launched a national boycott of Wendy's after the restaurant shifted its tomato purchases away from Fair Food Program farms in Florida to Mexico, where sexual violence and other human rights abuses are endemic and go unchecked.
Come learn more about how you can support the national Fair Food movement to expand these critical human rights protections!
Pizza will be served!
