Fair Food Program Education
team hits the road, leads the way as the FFP begins its expansion north out of
Florida!
This week, the Fair Food Program passed a truly
extraordinary milestone, and it was marked, quite literally, with a road sign
that read, “Welcome to Georgia!”
The photo at the top of this post, taken in the early
hours of the morning in a field near Bainbridge, Georgia, depicts the CIW
education team conducting one of the Fair Food Program’s trademark
worker-to-worker education sessions.
These trainings are the very heart of the Program, designed to
equip workers with a thorough understanding of their rights under the Fair Food
Code of Conduct — the right to work
free of sexual harassment and slavery, the right to report abuses or problems on
the farm without fear of retaliation, the right to shade, drinking water, and
clean bathrooms in the fields, to name just a few. Armed with this knowledge, workers
themselves become the frontline defenders of their own rights, an army
of thousands of monitors keeping a close watch over compliance with the
Program’s code of conduct and signaling possible violations through reports to
the Program’s 24-hr complaint line. On this foundation of informed worker
participation, the Fair Food Program has been able to transform the Florida
tomato industry into what one policy expert in the New York Times called “the
best working environment in American agriculture.”
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