Tomato Pickers in Immokalee, Fla. Take Step Forward but . . .
Written by Bruce Goldstein Thursday, 18 February 2010 18:42
The Florida tomato growers who have resisted the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' arrangements with food industry corporations to pay farmworkers an extra penny a pound say they are willing to pay the workers the money, sort of, but along with it they are creating a "warmed over, a grower-designed, grower-controlled code of conduct devised to keep growers squarely in the driver's seat from start to finish -- from the implementation to the monitoring and enforcement of the code." The new corporate social responsibility program is similar to the previous "SAFE" program that was widely discredited as a sham. Still, the CIW reports that "no matter how you read the penny-per-pound decision -- visionary social responsibility on the FTGE's part or unavoidable concession -- it is unquestionably a measure of the growing success of the Campaign for Fair Food." More information is available at http://www.ciw-online.org/index.html .
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