Campaign for Fair Food

One of our key partners is the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based farmworker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida.

The CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food has won unprecedented support for fundamental farm labor reforms from retail food industry leaders -- including Yum Brands, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Whole Foods, Bon Appetit, Compass Group, Aramark, Sodexo, and Trader Joe's -- with the goal of enlisting the market power of those companies to demand more humane labor standards from their Florida tomato suppliers.

Specifically, these companies have agreed to guarantee:

• At least a penny more per pound to workers harvesting their tomatoes;
• An enforceable, human rights-based code of conduct (including zero tolerance for forced labor) governing their tomato suppliers;
• A collaborative effort to develop a third-party mechanism for monitoring conditions in the fields;
• And farmworker participation in the development and implementation of these reforms.

In the Campaign for Fair Food, Just Harvest is focused on on supermarket industry leaders Publix, Kroger and Ahold and fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle.

We are active in the Alliance for Fair Food, a national network of human rights, religious, student, labor, sustainable food and agriculture, environmental and grassroots organizations who work in partnership with the CIW. The AFF promotes principles and practices of socially responsible purchasing in the corporate food industry that advance and ensure the human rights of farmworkers at the bottom of corporate supply chains.