The agreement represents a significant step forward in CIW's decade-long campaign for labor reforms in Florida's tomato industry. Not only is it the first formal agreement between CIW and a major tomato grower, but the new accord establishes several practical systems designed to implement cooperatively the key principles of the Code of Conduct at the heart of the Campaign for Fair Food. Those principles include a joint -- and, when need be, external -- complaint resolution system, a participatory health and safety program, and a worker-to-worker education process aimed at insuring that farmworkers themselves are active participants in the social responsibility efforts.
The agreement also provides for third-party auditing of both the systems needed to implement the Code and payment of the "penny-per-pound," the price premium designed to raise farmworker wages that is part of CIW's agreements with nine major retail food companies, including sector leaders McDonald's, Whole Foods, and Compass Group.
“Pacific Tomato Growers (PTG) believes that….
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