The human rights crisis in Kroger’s supply chain, spotlighted by its own hometown newspaper🔒 SSL Verified

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• ↓ CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Ending modern-day slavery requires more than successful prosecutions. It requires changing the conditions that allow slavery to exist in the first place."
• ↓ Kroger must do more to prevent forced labor | Opinion
• ↓ US Department of Labor Awards $2.5 Million Grant to Fuel Fair Food Program’s International Expansion
• ↓ BREAKING: U.S. DOJ busts sprawling modern-day slavery operation in fields of South Georgia
• ↓ It’s Official: Watkins Farm of North Carolina joins the Fair Food Program!
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"While the Fair Food Program continues to change the lives of farmworkers across the U.S. and inspire worker-led human rights initiatives around the world, some of the country’s largest food corporations still refuse to bring the FFP's proven protections into their own supply chains. Despite years of rallies, marches, shareholder resolutions, letters from customers, and mounting evidence of the program's unparalleled success in preventing abuse, Kroger refuses to join the FFP."

"And while the FFP continues to build a growing track record of prevention, Kroger’s own produce supply chain repeatedly makes headlines for the very abuses the Program has so effectively stopped. Three years ago, after the U.S. Department of Labor identified Kroger as a buyer of watermelons harvested by workers trapped in a brutal forced labor operation, CIW senior staff member and farmworker leader Gerardo Reyes Chavez took to the pages of the Cincinnati Enquirer — Kroger’s hometown paper — with a direct appeal: It is finally time, Kroger, to the human rights crisis in your supply chain and join the Fair Food Program."

"Three years later -- and yet another forced labor prosecution tied to its supply chain -- Kroger still has not acted."

"Just weeks ago, another key member of the Moreno trafficking operation, Alexander Villatoro Moreno, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Meanwhile, a separate class-action lawsuit filed by farmworkers in North Carolina has brought new allegations of severe labor abuses at another agricultural operation whose produce, according to publicly available information, was purchased by Kroger."

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CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Ending modern-day slavery requires more than successful prosecutions. It requires changing the conditions that allow slavery to exist in the first place."

Kroger must do more to prevent forced labor | Opinion

US Department of Labor Awards $2.5 Million Grant to Fuel Fair Food Program’s International Expansion

BREAKING: U.S. DOJ busts sprawling modern-day slavery operation in fields of South Georgia

It’s Official: Watkins Farm of North Carolina joins the Fair Food Program!