Great new article in Civil Eats asks:
“A little Justice With Your Cherry Garcia?”
Worker-driven Social Responsibility — the market-based model for the
enforceable protection of human rights in corporate supply chains at the heart
of the CIW’s Fair Food Program — is a proven success. To quote an earlier post,
entitled, “Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR): A new idea for a new
century“:
… The Fair Food Program has effected unprecedented change in Florida’s
fields since it was implemented across 90% of the state’s tomato industry in
2011. It has eliminated or greatly reduced longstanding abuses from sexual
harassment to modern-day slavery, added over $15 million [Update: now $17
million and counting] in Fair Food Premiums to farm payrolls, and earned the
praise of human rights experts from the White House to the United Nations. It
has been called “one of the great human rights success stories of our day” in
the Washington Post and “the best workplace monitoring program… in the US” on
the front page of the New York Times.
President Clinton, on the occasion of the presentation of the 2014 Clinton
Global Citizen Award to the CIW for “defending the human rights of farmworkers
across the United States,” agreed, phrasing his opinion of the model in somewhat
folksier language:
“You’ve got a success model, and you ought to put the pedal to the
metal.”
Well, news came this week out of Vermont that an organization of dairy
workers, Migrant Justice/Justicia Migrante, is doing just that. Calling on Ben
& Jerry’s to “stand up for farmworkers’ rights in its supply chain,” Migrant
Justice launched a campaign this month to demand that the iconic ice cream giant
use its market power to support a new worker-driven social responsibility
program they are calling “Milk with Dignity”...
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