Florida Farmworkers Push For Fairness In The Fields
South Florida was known as a hotbed for modern-day slavery. Now, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are using their innovative model to bring dignity to the tomato fields. Immokalee, Florida, is [...]
Boycott Driscoll’s This Week In Support Of Workers
By the Boycott Driscolls Campaign, www.popularresistance.org -
From the Boycott Driscolls Campaign. The 80,000 farmworkers in San Quintin, Baja California (Mexico), who are fighting for a collective-bargaining agreement with BerryMex, the Mexican subsidiary [...]
Scores Of Farm Workers, Activists March On Ben & Jerry’s
By Wilson Ring for Associated Press - MONTPELIER, Vt. - Scores of dairy farm workers and activists marched Saturday to a Ben & Jerry’s factory to push for better pay and living conditions on [...]
True Food Systems Change From The Bottom Up
By Families United for Justice, www.popularresistance.org -
By Families United for Justice. On June 15th FUJ members turned out to overwhelmingly ratify the tentative collective bargaining agreement presented by their negotiations committee. After an [...]
Boycott Wendy’s
By Coalition of Immokalee Workers. For over three years, farm workers and consumers have been demanding that Wendy’s join its major competitors – Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Subway and Burger King – [...]
It’s Time to Scrap NAFTA, Not ‘Tweak’ It
By Victor Suarez and Alejandro Villamar, www.fpif.org -
By Victor Suarez and Alejandro Villamar for Foreign Policy in Focus. Some politicians and “experts” still don’t understand — or don’t want to understand — that a great deal of popular discontent [...]
Sakuma Agrees To Negotiate A Contract With Farm Workers
By Whatcom-Skagit General Membership Branch, IWW, www.popularresistance.org -
By Whatcom-Skagit General Membership Branch, IWW. Four Years Struggle Three Years Boycott, Sakuma Finally Ready to Negotiate- FUJ Response to Sakuma Press Statement on MOU Burlington, WA - We [...]
Cesar Chavez Day: His Legacy Lights A New Leader’s Path
By Emma Torres for Equal Voice. I was only 15 years old when my family became involved in the huelga (strike) in California. My parents, aunts and uncles provided meals to hundreds of Chavistas [...]