Environmental for Food Justice

Old fashioned is right! ciw-online.org Moderator’s Note: I first heard about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in 1991 at the Environmental Justice Summit and have been privileged to witness their steps toward a unique approach to the organization of farm worker struggles – a model that is called “Fair Food.” CIW launched its movement to transform the organization of farm workers by networking across the entire food chain – for e.g., by organizing from the farm field to the fast food restaurants. The success of the campaign to organize the Fair Food sourcing program includes an important   agreement made in October 2012 with the Chipotle national chain.  This has turned out to be an almost singular achievement in  the history of farm worker organizing and goes well beyond measurably significant gains in “living wages” and other benefits tied to an innovative fair wage source agreement with the several fast food business sector corporations that the grow...