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Tell Quiznos to Be Bold and Say No to Slave-Picked Produce
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    1,637 out of 2,500
    Petitioning
    1. Kelly Pakula
  2. Created By
    Amanda Kloer
    Washington, DC
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Toasty sub shop Quiznos is the latest fast food chain to become the targets of the Coalition of Immakolee Worker's Campaign for Fair Food. The campaign asks companies from fast food restaurant chains to grocery stores to take three critical steps in preventing human trafficking and labor exploitation in agriculture. Companies who sign onto the campaign agree to pay a penny more per pound of tomatoes purchased and ensure that money goes directly to the men and women who pick the tomatoes.  They also must create a code of conduct prohibiting slavery and labor exploitation, which also applies to their suppliers. And finally, they agree to involve the workers in the process of preventing abuse and making tomatoes fairer. These steps may seem minor, but they go a long way in preventing human trafficking in agriculture in the U.S. Yet while Taco Bell, Subway, McDonald's, and other fast food chains have stepped up to prevent trafficking, Quiznos keeps stalling.

Ask Quiznos to be bold and stand against human trafficking and farm worker exploitation by signing agreeing to sell fair food.

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Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Campaign for Fair Food

Greetings,

As a Quiznos customer and advocate for fair labor practices, I would like to ask Quiznos to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) Campaign for Fair Food.

Modern-day slavery is a reality for many farm workers right here in the U.S. In Florida, over 1,000 people have been identified as trafficked in fields and on farms, picking the food we eat every day. Farm workers have also been trapped in slavery or seriously abusive conditions in California, Washington, North Carolina, Maryland, and several other states with large agricultural industries. Because the laws governing agriculture are different than those regulating other industries in the U.S., many of these workers don't have the same legal protections the rest of us do.

The logic behind the Campaign for Fair Food is simple. Major corporate buyers like Quiznos purchase a tremendous volume of fruits and vegetables, leveraging their buying power to demand the lowest possible prices from their suppliers. This, in turn, exerts a powerful downward pressure on wages and working conditions in these suppliers' operations. It's a cycle which sometimes results in human trafficking. But the Campaign for Fair Food aims to reverse this trend by harnessing the purchasing power of the food industry for the betterment of farm worker wages and working conditions. However, they need your company’s participation to do it.

Please, join the Campaign for Fair Food and take a stand in support of farm workers' rights and an end to human trafficking in agriculture in the U.S. Your decision on this issue will affect my choice of restaurant. I hope to continue eating at Quiznos as a company that supports fair labor and is actively working to eradicate slavery.

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