Immokalee, Florida

Low Wage, High Risk Pilot Site Materials

Overview

There are an estimated 1.4 million crop workers in the United States, the majority of whom are foreign born. Florida’s tomato fields supply 90 percent of the nation’s winter tomato crop, making it a hub for agricultural workers. Low wages and wage theft, as well as hazardous working conditions—including sexual harassment and violence—are rife in the industry. The Fair Food Program, a unique partnership between farm workers, Florida tomato growers, and participating retail buyers—including Subway, Whole Foods, and Walmart—serves as a groundbreaking model for using the power of the market to ensure workers receive fair wages and are free from sexual violence and human trafficking.

What Can I Do?

Download the resources in this toolkit as one step toward creating a program for agricultural industry workers. This model curriculum, slides, and handouts are a good starting point for adapting the products to your specific workplace.

Resources

Education & Trainings

Model Agriculture Handouts

This resource provides all the handouts needed to accompany the model agriculture curriculum.

Model Agriculture Curriculum

This training curriculum guide is for an in-person and interactive training program for supervisors in the agriculture industry – anyone in a leadership or supervisory role (crew leader, harvest manager, a bus driver, or a housing supervisor). Created for farmworkers, this training is filled with relatable scenarios of situations that workers actually face.