CIW

  • Tomato Pickers: Trader Joe’s Is Rotten
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Oct 28 2011 - 2:28pm

    Florida’s tomato farmworkers and their allies brought a two-year fight to specialty grocer Trader Joe’s doorstep last week, marching on its Southern California headquarters. They want the grocer to pay farmworkers a penny more per pound.

  • Tomato Pickers Pedal for Penny
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Sep 24 2011 - 11:09pm

    How many times have you seen a penny on the floor and didn’t bother to pick it up? Yet for tomato pickers in Florida the effort to get a penny from supermarket giants Publix and Trader Joe's has become a backbreaking struggle.

  • Excluded Workers, AFL-CIO Build Addition to the House of Labor

    “Excluded workers” called on the AFL-CIO to let them in—and got the beginnings of a welcome. At their conference in New York this week, 250 members and organizers from the nine sectors of the Excluded Workers Congress vowed to “expand the human right to organize and collectively bargain.”

  • Florida Tomato Pickers Challenge Supermarkets To ‘Do the Right Thing’
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Apr 6 2011 - 11:40am

    Thousands of Florida tomato pickers and their supporters have rallied at supermarkets, demanding that big corporate buyers use their purchasing power to improve conditions in the fields.

  • CIW Wrests Historic Agreement from Tomato Growers Group
    Jenny Brown
    Nov 18 2010 - 2:07pm

    Florida's tomato pickers have cleared their largest obstacle yet on the road to justice. An agreement with an intransigent industry group will bring improved pay and conditions to 90 percent of tomato pickers.

  • Secondary Strikes Are Primary to Labor’s Revival
    Joe Burns
    Nov 4 2010 - 8:32am

    To revive unionism, we must recover labor’s long-lost tools of workplace-based solidarity. That means hitting employers at multiple points in production and distribution chains with secondary and industry-wide strikes.

  • Tomato Pickers Secure Path-Breaking Deal with Florida Grower

    The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced today it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields.

  • In Florida, Slavery Still Haunts the Fields
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 5 2010 - 7:45pm

    The trailer, 24 feet deep by 8 feet wide, is muggy this August afternoon in Manhattan. But eight of us mop our brows as we clamber inside for a look at one the most shameful secrets of the American system of food production—modern-day slavery among farmworkers.

  • Baltimore Worker Center Says Tourist District Shouldn't Grow on Poverty Jobs
    Tom Kertes
    Mar 12 2010 - 4:51am

    Poverty conditions for workers in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor are threatening to become routine. That doesn't make them tolerable, said a worker center. They're pursuing living-wage agreements by targeting developers.

  • Haiti: Give Here
    by Enku Ide
    Jan 15 2010 - 1:28pm

    Haiti's earthquake has led to a humanitarian crisis, a tragedy compounded by longtime U.S. and European intervention. Some support now flows from corporations with interests in the status quo of poverty and pillage. Give instead to groups that meet direct needs and fight for justice.