Gerardo Reyes Chávez from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), and Tiffany Goetzinger from the Fair Food Program join us to talk about their three decade campaign fighting for worker protections for farm workers on tomato farms in Florida and how they brought some of the nation’s largest food companies to heel on sourcing only from farms with more ethical labor protections for their workers. Tiffany and Gerardo share how the CIW built accountability mechanisms into the design of their campaign and how they’ve centered the voices of the farm workers on the frontlines in their organizing for three decades. We also hear from Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin about how your voices make a difference in her work in D.C. The episode closes with a conversation between David Howard, State Policy Campaigns Director at Young Farmers, and our Pennsylvania Manager Karen Gardner about the power of lobby days. Edited by Hannah Beal.
Gerardo Reyes Chávez from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), and Tiffany Goetzinger from the Fair Food Program join us to talk about their three decade campaign fighting for worker protections for farm workers on tomato farms in Florida and how they brought some of the nation’s largest food companies to heel on sourcing only from farms with more ethical labor protections for their workers. Tiffany and Gerardo share how the CIW built accountability mechanisms into the design of their campaign and how they’ve centered the voices of the farm workers on the frontlines in their organizing for three decades.
We also hear from Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin about how your voices make a difference in her work in D.C. The episode closes with a conversation between David Howard, State Policy Campaigns Director at Young Farmers, and our Pennsylvania Manager Karen Gardner about the power of lobby days.
Edited by Hannah Beal.
**Bios for Tiffany and Gerardo
To learn more about the CIW and their current campaigns, visit https://ciw-online.org/. To read about the Fair Food Program and learn more about the way the accountability mechanisms operate, visit https://www.fairfoodprogram.org/.