Student/ Farmworker Alliance

04/13/2026

04/11/2026

During the final days of National Farmworker Awareness Week — while some of our student allies at Yale University marched alongside two of the CIW’s co-founders, calling on the administration to join the Fair Food Program — other student leaders from across the country gathered in Immokalee for a weekend filled with education, skill-building, and community!

The 2026 Steering Committee woke up early to see how farmworkers find work in the mornings, learned directly from CIW and each other, developed strategy for our groundbreaking Fair Food University campaign, distributed care packages collected by and to farmworkers coming home from work, and made plans to bring what they learned back to their campuses and communities. We can’t wait to share all that we came up with as the year unfolds!

03/09/2026

BREAKING: Yale’s Student/Farmworker Alliance once again calls for Yale University to join the Fair Food Program (FFP) — this time sharing a photo of a pallet with produce from a massive grower linked farm labor abuse on campus.

Yale Hospitality confirmed this purchase and told the Yale Daily News that it also sources over 64% of its tomatoes from FFP farms. Yet, while they display this statistic in their dining halls, Yale Hospitality still refuses to join the program.

“By bragging about their FFP produce, [Yale] Hospitality is proving our point: they understand that the FFP protects human rights, and that Yale is capable of buying from FFP-certified growers. But actions speak louder than words, and Hospitality must join the FFP to truly protect the human rights of farmworkers in Yale’s supply chain,” says Seung Min Baik Kang, a senior at Yale and SFA organizer.

Follow along for updates on the campaign!

02/26/2026

Sign the pledge to join the campaign for basic human rights in the plant nursery industry: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/houseplant-retailers-and-growers-join-planting-justice/ 🪴

02/18/2026

Students across the US: do you want to stand with farmworkers in their fight for justice in the food industry? Join the call for your university to be part of the solution by bringing their dining services into the Fair Food Program!

Calling all students, faculty, and staff of universities across the US! Do you want to stand with farmworkers in their fight for justice in the food industry? Do you care deeply about human rights and dignity for all workers and want to make your voice heard? Today, you can join a growing national movement by calling on your university to join the Fair Food Program!

Across the country, students and campus employees are organizing to ensure the produce served in their dining halls comes from farms that protect farmworkers’ freedom and dignity — Fair Food farms. From Yale University to the University of Michigan, campaigns are underway to bring university dining services into the Fair Food Program, ensuring the fruits and vegetables they serve to hundreds of thousands of students on campuses are free from forced labor, wage theft, sexual violence, and other abuses that continue to plague agriculture.

And these student-led efforts are already revealing serious gaps in university sourcing practices, underscoring the urgent need for institutions to clean up their supply chains and take the lead on human rights. Right now, your campus may be purchasing produce harvested by workers laboring in dangerous, exploitative conditions. Ending these violations will require all of us. Join the call for your university to be part of the solution, and get in touch with the Student/ Farmworker Alliance at [email protected]!

02/12/2026

NEW: Today, WeCount! released a new report with Demos and Partners for Dignity & Rights on the human rights crisis in the houseplant industry. At the bottom of this multi-billion-dollar industry: thousands of mostly immigrant workers are facing low wages, unsafe working conditions, and exclusions from basic labor rights. Read the full report at www.we-count.org to learn about the human cost of houseplants and why we're launching a new campaign called Planting Justice to bring worker-driven social responsibility (WSR) to the industry. 🌱

NUEVO: Hoy, WeCount! publicó un nuevo informe con Demos y Partners for Dignity & Rights sobre la crisis de derechos humanos en la industria de las plantas. En la base de esta industria multimillonaria, miles de trabajadores, en su mayoría inmigrantes, se enfrentan a bajos salarios, condiciones laborales inseguras y exclusión de derechos laborales básicos. Lea el informe completo en www.we-count.org para conocer el costo humano de las plantas y por qué estamos lanzando una nueva campaña, Sembrando Justicia, para traer la responsabilidad social de los trabajadores (WSR) a la industria. 🌱

02/12/2026

For more than 15 years, the industry-leading protections of the Fair Food Program have stood fast against farm labor abuses ranging from wage theft and sexual violence to dangerous working conditions, physical abuse, and forced labor.

01/09/2026

Throughout its historic movement to advance farmworkers’ rights, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has relied on students to stand in solidarity with farmworkers and demand change. Students at the University of Michigan are among those who have answered the call, staging a hunger strike and successfully calling on the university to cut its contract with Wendy’s as part of CIW’s Boot the Braids campaign between 2017 and 2019. Today, CIW is again looking for UMich students to stand in solidarity with farmworkers, this time through a Fair Food University campaign.

Join CIW and student allies at the Ginsberg Center next Thursday evening at 8 PM to learn more about this campaign, how it has worked at other campuses, and how you can get involved to protect some of the country’s most vulnerable workers. This event is co-hosted by the . Insomnia Cookies will be provided.

01/08/2026

How much do you know about the people who harvest the food that you eat?

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a human rights organization based in Florida, has been on the frontlines of defending farmworkers’ human rights for more than thirty years.

To learn about their historic movement for farmworkers’ rights and how you can become involved, join us at the University of Michigan next Wednesday evening at 7 PM for a free, public screening of the documentary Food Chains (2014), followed by a panel discussion featuring special guests from CIW, former UMich student organizer Kimberley Daley, and Chavi Keeney Nana from UMich Law’s Human Trafficking and Immigration Clinic. Thanks to our co-hosts and .

10/31/2025

The 2025 Encuentro was our 20th in SFA history, and it was a booming success! The weekend brought in over 40 allies — representing nearly 20 campuses and communities across the country — to our ever-growing farmworker solidarity network. 🌿🍅✨⛅️💫

Participants spent their weekend digging into the CIW’s history, learning more about worker-led approaches to justice with and , developing their skills, building relationships with farmworkers and students alike, and discussing an exciting new strategy in the Campaign for Fair Food. Stay in tune to learn more! 👀