Susan L. Marquis, dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School: “They’ve already been successful in a measurable way at effectively eliminating modern-day slavery and sexual assault, and greatly reducing harassment.”
NYT: “Over the last decade, [the Fair Food Program] has helped transform the state’s tomato industry from one in which wage theft and violence were rampant to an industry with the some of the highest labor standards in American agriculture.”
Last week, in our report on the unforgettable “March of the Red Carnations” at Ohio State University, we mentioned in passing that a blockbuster new article on the CIW’s Wendy’s Boycott had been published in the New York Times. This morning we have a moment – as students, faith leaders, Gainesville community members and farmworkers from Immokalee gather their forces for what promises to be a massive march later today on the University of Florida campus – to take a closer look at the Times article, an article so big that it took up nearly the entire front page of the Friday Business Section!
The report, by the New York Times labor reporter Noam Scheiber, covered a tremendous amount of ground, from refuting Wendy’s claims that greenhouse growers are somehow inherently socially responsible, to covering the growing momentum of student-led campaigns to kick Wendy’s restaurants off campus – backed by a new wave of city governments declaring their support for the students’ efforts in college towns from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Gainesville, Florida.
Here below are several extended excerpts from Friday’s NYT report, but we strongly suggest that you read the article in its entirety at the Times’ website,
which you can find here. And if you are reading this post and are in the Gainesville area, be sure to join us at the University of Florida’s Norman Field today at 12:30 for the kick off of the big march to President Fuch’s office!
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