Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida (IA) is a network of people of faith and religious institutions that works in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve sub-poverty wages and end modern-day slavery and human rights abuses in the fields.  IA brings the spiritual resources of diverse faith traditions and the moral weight of faith-based voices in society to our work in collaboration with farmworkers for justice in the fields.  

On a day-to-day basis, Interfaith Action provides educational materials and opportunities for faith communities, including dialogue between farmworker and non-farmworker people of faith, and animates faith-based participation in the Campaign for Fair Food.  IA’s faith-based organizing leverages the moral, consumer and shareholder power of religious communities to effectively call on major tomato purchasers to implement fair wages and human rights for farmworkers.  People of faith played a crucial role in bringing about the CIW´s historic agreements with Yum Brands and McDonald´s, which directly improve wages and working conditions for tomato pickers in these companies´ supply chains by establishing a precedent which ensures that the dignity of Florida´s farmworkers is respected.

IA facilitates education for faith communities, including dialogue between farmworkers and non-farmworker people of faith, and animates people of faith to take action for justice in the agricultural industry.  IA coordinates faith-based participation in the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food, leveraging the moral, consumer, shareholder, and social power of faith communities to effectively call on major tomato purchasers to ensure fair wages and human rights for farmworkers.  IA played a crucial role in bringing about the CIW’s historic agreements with Yum Brands and McDonald’s, which directly improved wages and conditions for farmworkers in these companies’ supply chains.  

IA also provides a wide range of logistical and technical assistance to the farmworkers of the CIW, both in Immokalee and in planning national tours and actions.  IA is an affiliate of Interfaith Worker Justice and a founding member of the Alliance for Fair Food.