CAMPAIGN FOR FAIR FOOD

UPDATE: CIW launches National Petition Campaign to end modern-day slavery, sweatshops in the fields!

Much more than an e-campaign, this petition is a living, tangible organizing movement that we encourage our allies to bring to life in their own communities – in schools, churches, union halls, and community gatherings from Miami to Minneapolis, from New York to Los Angeles. We will turn in the petitions in a creative mass procession at Burger King headquarters in Miami later this spring.

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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a grassroots farm worker organization based in Southwest Florida that has been honored internationally for its work towards justice in the fields. The Student/ Farm worker Alliance is a network of students and youth that organize in partnership with the CIW on campuses and communities throughout the country.

In 2005, after a four-year boycott, Taco Bell conceded to grassroots pressure and agreed to work with the CIW to address the poverty and degradation faced by farm workers in its tomato supply chain. Since then, the CIW has challenged the rest of the fast-food industry to join in demanding fair wages and humane treatment for the farm workers. In 2007, following two years of intense campaigning, the CIW reached a landmark agreement with McDonald’s the world's largest restaurant chain - to develop mechanisms to extend these crucial gains across the entire tomato industry.

But Burger King has refused to take similar steps to address farmworker poverty and is working to roll back the gains made thus far. In November the CIW organized a successful mobilization of thousands of supporters to Burger King’s headquarters in Miami. This mobilization demonstrated the need for the fast food industry to reform and to stop the abuses on the human rights of farmworkers.

• Farm workers earn $7,500 a year on average.
• Farm workers receive no healthcare, overtime pay, or benefits of any kind.
• Under national law, farm workers are not able to form unions.
•  There have been 6 cases of modern-day slavery in the agriculture industry prosecuted in the last 10 years.

The Student Labor Action Project is a proud ally in the fight to bring justice to Burger King's farm workers.

For more information, visit www.ciw-online.org and www.sfalliance.org or email organize@sfalliance.org.