Ask AI Mark discusses the Fair Food Program, a worker-driven model created by farm workers themselves to improve wages and rights. The program holds companies accountable through mechanisms designed by the workers it protects, benefiting both laborers and businesses.
Basically, what the Fair Food Program does is it's a worker-driven social responsibility. So most social responsibility compacts are written by the CEO or the legal team or the marketing team. But this is written by the workers. What do you need in order to feel safe? We need sanitation in the fields. We need to be able to wash our hands. We need to be paid from the moment we get on the bus, not the moment when we can start working in the field, all those types of things. Then they have an agreement that they'll train all of the workers in those fields. They do trainings once every about two months so that everybody knows their rights and knows how to report the abuses. and then they can, you know, and then the abuses continue to happen usually in a field for another year. But once everybody understands that they'll be held accountable for abuse, the abuse has stopped.
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And that's what they've been able to prove. So it's really effective.
Yeah, I mean, the fair food program is pretty amazing because it really was generated from the workers. And in order for a company to say they are a fair food purchaser and be part of that and get the credibility with the consumer, they have to agree to do these things, including paying a penny more per pound, which doesn't sound like very much, but it doubles the wages of these farm workers. They did it without passing on that to the consumers.
