The White House recognized CIW’s Fair Food Program for fighting and preventing modern-day slavery. via ciw-online.org At the first-ever White House Forum to Combat Human Trafficking last week — an event that involved everyone from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State John Kerry — the CIW and the Fair Food Program were...

Updates from FCWA Members’ Campaigns! Coalition of Immokalee Workers: Campaign for Fair Food & the March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food members of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance at the march On March 3, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) launched a 200-mile, 2-week march from Fort Myers to Publix Headquarters in Lakeland Florida.  Close to 2,000 people from around the country...

Tell Goldman Sachs: Don’t Fund Food Sweatshops From Juan Romero, a member of FCWA member Brandworkers: Goldman Sachs doesn’t want you to know what it does with your tax-dollars. Don’t let your money go to law-breaking food sweatshops. Sign our petition to call on Alicia Glen of Goldman Sachs to create good jobs through their food manufacturers loan program. My name is Juan Romero,...

International Labor Rights Forum *by Diana Matamoros, UCLA student and FCWA intern* Courtesy of ILRF Launched in 1986 by human rights, labor, academic, and faith-based communities, the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) is an advocacy organization which fights for the rights of workers in international trade, as well as monitors the enforcement of fundamental labor laws and standards in order...