Ohio Fair Food

Location:Kroger
2913 Olentangy River Road
Columbus, Ohio

Time:Friday, August 26 · 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Ohio Fair Food will be visiting Kroger stores each Friday this month. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join us in distributing leaflets telling people how they can help end slavery and abuse of migrant farmworkers simply by asking Kroger to take responsibility for the workers who pick the tomatoes they sell. If you can volunteer, please email Sue Carter at ohiofairfood@gmail.com or call 459-0017. An RSVP is important for these events to help us determine how many materials to bring.

On June 23, Ohio Fair Food was launched with an exciting rally at the Kroger Annual Meeting in Cincinnati. Over 25 enthusiastic volunteers from the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center demonstrated outside the meeting while Brigitte Gynther, CIW/Interfaith Action organizer, posed a question to the Board of Directors and talked after the meeting with Mr. Dillion, Kroger CEO. In response to Brigitte's questions asking when Kroger would sign the agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to help end brutality toward workers, Mr. Dillion responded that Kroger would be watching the Campaign for Fair Food.

Supporters of the Coalition's Campaign for Fair Food can keep sending Kroger management the message -- as consumers, we want Kroger to help end poverty and slavery through corporate responsibility. We ask Kroger to pay one penny more for each pound of tomatoes and sign the agreement for decent working conditions. In the coming months, Ohio Fair Food volunteers will celebrate Fair Food Friday each week by visiting one Kroger store to let Kroger customers know about the hardships migrant workers face and tell Kroger store managers why we are asking Kroger to help solve this serious problem.