The Coalition of Immokalee Workers's agreement with Trader Joe's is a significant step forward its efforts to bring fairness and accountability to the food industry.
Trader Joe's pulls in some $8.5 billion per year, in part because of its progressive reputation. It's time for the company to sign a fair food agreement.
The Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, which represents virtually all the tomato farmers in the state, has signed on to the important Fair Food Principles.
In Florida alone, the DoJ has prosecuted seven farm slavery operations with over 1,000 captive workers. More than a dozen farm labor supervisors have served time in federal prison.
Bryan Farrell, Waging Nonviolence. October 28, 2010.
If we don’t have the data, we’re not doing science. The genome and the data vanished in a cloud of confidential business information and corporate appropriation.
Farmworkers are calling on supermarket giant Publix to pay them a penny more for every pound of tomatoes they pick, which would almost double their meager wages.
