 Dear friends,  On Thursday, February 9, 2012, Trader Joe’s signed a Fair Food agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, making it the tenth company to join the Fair Food program that is improving wages and conditions for farmworkers, guaranteeing corporate accountability and ensuring consumer confidence.Trader Joe’s is poised to open its first store in Naples, Florida tomorrow. On Sunday, the mass rally that was once focused on the Monrovia California-based grocery chain, will march by the store in celebration and onto a local Publix grocery store and rally there. Florida-based Publix has thus far refused to work with the CIW. Across the country, 33 cities that were slated to rally outside of Trader Joe’s grocery stores are celebrating this victory for human rights and shifting their rallies to local Publix, Kroger- and Ahold-owned stores. As you celebrate this agreement between Trader Joe’s and the CIW, take a moment to let the company know that they’ve done the right thing. Many of us have dropped off a manager’s letter before, so this time, write your own manager’s letter commending the company and drop it off when you next shop at Trader Joe’s. And let us renew our commitment to bringing the entire supermarket industry into the Fair Food Program. As the prophet Amos cried, “let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream!” |
Monday, February 20, 2012
Trader Joe's Signs CIW Agreement
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