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CIW, Fair
Food allies to rally outside Kroger annual shareholder meeting Thursday in
Cincinnati! Also: CIW education team in South Carolina pays respects at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston… On Thursday, June 24th, in Cincinnati, Ohio, local clergy, students, and residents with the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center and Ohio Fair Food will join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) for a demonstration outside the 2015 Kroger’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Together, they will call on the supermarket giant to join its competitors Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Fresh Market in supporting the award-winning Fair Food Program. Last year’s shareholder meeting event ended in an impromptu march on Kroger headquarters after the company made the extraordinary decision to turn away a delegation representing the CIW and their Ohio allies — despite the fact that the delegation members held proxies authorizing them to speak on behalf of shareholders not in attendance at the meeting [...] [...] CIW education team pays respects at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston… Meanwhile, the CIW’s worker-to-worker education team continues to make its way up the east coast, as the expansion of the Fair Food Program reaches South Carolina’s coastal tomato industry. But while the task at hand — informing workers on participating Low Country tomato farms of their rights under the Fair Food Program — is of utmost importance, events in Charleston this week shook the country as a whole and transcended the education team’s mission. Accordingly, the team members decided to set aside their work yesterday to visit Mother Emanuel AME Church and pay their respects to the victims of last Wednesday’s horrific shooting... |
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