For this year’s National Farmworker Awareness Week, we are shining a light on the challenges faced by women in farmwork.
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How EFI and CIW Support Women Farmworkers
As we reflect on the stories of resilience from women farmworker’s rights activists for National Farmworker Awareness Week, it’s clear that today’s initiatives build on the hard-fought progress of the past…
The Women Who Shaped Farmworkers’ Rights
National Farmworker Awareness Week: For decades, women have stood at the forefront of the fight for farmworkers’ rights, challenging exploitation and advocating for justice in the agricultural industry.
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Bon Appétit Management Company is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, museums, and other specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we operate more than 1,000 cafés in 33 states. Our chefs cook from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. Widely recognized as a pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, we are proud to be the first food service company to:
Directly support small, local farms- Strive to serve only sustainable seafood
- Address antibiotics overuse in our meat supply
- Switch to cage-free eggs, both shell and precracked/liquid
- Tackle food’s role in climate change
- Advocate for farmworkers’ rights
- Commit to pork raised without gestation crates
- Switch to third-party verified humanely raised ground beef
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Women in farmwork have faced extraordinary challenges for generations, from low wages to unsafe ...
Women in farmwork have faced extraordinary challenges for generations, from low wages to unsafe working conditions.
However, Bon Appétit has long followed the lead of organizations like the Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), who are driving meaningful change through innovative programs and codes of conduct, working to create safer, more equitable workplaces for women in agriculture.
EFI focuses on fostering respect and accountability in agricultural workplaces.
👉 Farmworkers, supervisors, and management receive sexual harassment prevention training.
👉 There are clear, retaliation-free reporting mechanisms to empower women to speak up.
CIW has revolutionized workplace protections through their groundbreaking Fair Food Program.
👉 The program enforces a strict zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment and abuse, ensuring swift and serious consequences for violations.
👉 They foster worker-to-worker education programs to teach farmworkers about their rights and protections.
Learn more at the link in our bio about how programs like EFI and CIW’s Fair Food Program don’t just create rules — they actively engage workers, especially women, in shaping and enforcing protections. By prioritizing dignity and respect, these organizations offer a roadmap for equity in agriculture while honoring the legacy of women leaders who fought for justice.
#WomenInAgriculture #FarmworkerRights #EquitableFoodInitiative #FairFoodProgram #FoodJustice
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Emerson College Donates Leftovers To Local Students In Need
Leftover cafeteria food at Emerson College will be donated to local students in need this winter break. The Bon Appetit Management Company, which caters Emerson’s dining hall, is donating leftover prepared foods, produce, pantry, and refrigerated items to Food For Free, a non-profit helping fight food insecurity.
How Whitman College is Reckoning With its Past
On a recent Friday, the menu at Whitman College’s dining hall looked a little different than normal. There was roasted elk, fry bread with huckleberry jam, and cedar plank smoked rainbow trout. These “first foods” are representative of the region’s Indigenous people. And Whitman College will now have a station highlighting them on the first Friday of every month.
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