Aramark and Sodexo Have No Excuse: Must meet with Farmworkers!
Read and Sign this petition to tell Philadelphia company, Aramark, and food service provider to Temple University, Sodexo, to stop ignoring the workers who help make them rich and to sit down with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/harvestofshame/
At the end of last month the Coaliton of Immokalee Workers and all those who have fought along side them for years celebrated yet another victory in the fight for fair food and justice in Florida's fields. This victory, however, came with news that has changed this struggle fundamentally. Food service provider, Compass, was the latest company to agree to the demands of a penny-per-pound raise to farmworkers who pick their tomatoes, a code of conduct and a seat at the negotiation table for workers. This victory went a step further and brought growers into the agreement --breaking a two year block by the Florida Growers Exchange that has kept the penny-per-pound wage increase from farmworkers and their families.
This victory means that workers will now begin to see these wins --- wins that amount to a doubling of workers wages and more profoundly, a tip in the scales of power and decision making when it comes to the U.S. agricultural industry.
Though a sweet victory, many in Florida's fields continue to work in miserable conditions with pay that leaves those who put food on this country's table unable to eat and feed their own families. This reminds us that the struggle for work with dignity continues.
Here in Philadelphia international food service provider, Aramark, continues to ignore the conditions that workers who make them rich face in the fields daily. Sign this petition to tell Aramark (and Sodexo) to sit dow with the CIW and be apart of the change that is becoming more and more inevitable.
If you are a student on temple's Campus and would like to get involved in the Dine With Dignity campaign and the Student Farmworker's Alliance, contact Leigha at leigha219@msn.com
Learn more about the CIW at www.ciw-online.org
Great article about CIW's incredible victory at http://labornotes.org/node/2488
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