Chipotle, CIW Finally Reach Accord To Support Florida Tomato Pickers' Rights
Chipotle Mexican Grill announced Thursday that it had finally reached an agreement with the Council of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to join the Florida tomato picker group's Fair Food Program.www.huffingtonpost.com
Seeking Living Wage and Humane Conditions, Immokalee Workers Bring Fair ...
We began by asking why the company refused to sign the Committee Immokalee Workers' agreement to participate in the Fair Food Program.www.democracynow.org
At Utopian Chipotle Festival, Immokalee Workers Protest 'Food With Integrity'
But for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), Chiptole's motto is an insult to the farm workers who toil in Florida's prolific tomato country, where the most winter tomatoes in the United States grow.inthesetimes.com
Walmart, Coke Meet Quietly With Labor Groups, Non-Profits Over Food Supply ...
WASHINGTON -- Representatives from the world's largest private employer and other Fortune 500 companies joined worker advocates, trade groups and government officials in a closed-door forum on Wednesday to discuss labor standards in the food ... on ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Fair Food Program helps end use of slavery in Florida tomato fields
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an organization of migrant workers based in Immokalee, Fla., has strived for 19 years to upgrade working conditions and eradicate slavery in the state's tomato industry.www.bradenton.com
Group's fire district consolidation plan would save more than $1 milllion, cut ...
The Collier Fire Administrative Services Committee has been working for about a year to determine if there was some cost savings that could be had by coordinating some administrative functions, including the purchase of health insurance, office ...www.marconews.com
Benefits: Help a less adoptable pet today
The store benefits the Naples Pro-Life Council. Information: 239-262-5433 or 239-572-2213 ... n Employees of Goldstein, Buckley, Cechman, Rice & Purtz, P.A.www.naplesnews.com
Hedges speaking at SDSU, writer laments death of the liberal class
Paul Baggett, a member of the Harding Lecture Committee, said, "Audience members can surely expect a provocative talk from Hedges as he advocates for those living on the margins of society, from the produce workers in the fields of Immokalee, Fla., to ...www.brookingsregister.com
Has Obama's foreign policy failed?
The desperate are often much more hopeful than that - the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, that amazingly effective immigrant farmworkers' rights group, is hopeful because quitting for them would mean surrendering to modern-day slavery, dire poverty ...www.salon.com
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