Ciw

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The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. We strive to build our strength as a community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help workers from the base of our community continually develop their skills in community education and organization. From this basis we fight for, among other things: a fair wage for the work we do, more respect on the part of our bosses and the industries where we work, better and cheaper housing, stronger laws and stronger enforcement against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize on our jobs without fear of retaliation, and an end to indentured servitude in the fields. "From the people, for the people" - Who we are... The CIW is based in Immokalee, but our impact reaches beyond the Southwest Florida area to cover the state of Florida as a whole. Southwest Florida is the state's most important center for agricultural production, and Immokalee is the state's largest farmworker community. As such, the majority of our members are farmworkers who spend 8-9 months of the year here in Southwest Florida then travel north on the season during the summer months. Many local residents, and thus many of our members, move out of agriculture and into other low wage industries that...

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