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Labor Day Reflection: “Why
Consumers Matter in Realizing Workers’ Rights…”
Labor Day is a day we set aside to celebrate the contributions of workers, across the country and around the globe, to the ever growing richness of our daily lives. From delicious fruits and vegetables available in stores year round, to gadgets affordable to the working man and woman that only the wealthiest among us could have dreamed of owning just years ago, the world of abundance enjoyed by even the average consumer today was simply unimaginable to past generations. Labor can be proud of the world it has created. Unfortunately, the wealth and wellbeing created by workers — from Immokalee to Bangladesh — is not shared as equitably as it might be, and workers around the globe are organizing to demand a fairer share. In good news for workers this Labor Day, consumers are beginning to step up and do their part to demand a fairer economy, and never have consumers commanded more power than they do today. The alliance with consumers has been key to the success of the Campaign for Fair Food, and the CIW is not alone among worker organizations in seeking to harness the power of consumers to demand change from the corporations that buy and sell the things workers produce. And that’s why, ahead of the long weekend, the CIW’s Greg Asbed teamed up with Scott Nova from the Workers’ Rights Consortium and Noelle Damico from the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative to pen a response to a Huffington Post special report from July titled, “The Myth of the Ethical Shopper”... | ||
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