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We will work to further the following principles:
- Farmworker wages must immediately be increased, and the retail food industry giants that have contributed to and profited from decades of farmworker poverty must participate in that increase. Twenty-five years of stagnant, sub-poverty earnings is enough.
- Farmworkers are entitled to participate as full partners in the decisions that affect their lives. Decades of sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery have earned farmworkers a place at the table, and those same shameful conditions should finally render indefensible any effort by growers or their food industry allies to push workers away.
- Any industry-wide Code of Conduct must be developed with the full participation of farmworkers, must be enforced in partnership with farmworkers, and must advance real rights for farmworkers, based on universally-accepted, fundamental labor standards.
As we work together with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for fair wages and working conditions, fundamental human rights and an end to modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry, we pledge to educate and encourage people throughout our society to support the global movement for human rights and demand the full realization of human rights within the agricultural industry.
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