September 1, 2022 — Several labor unions and a labor-based human rights group have come together to launch a pilot program aimed at identifying and combating human rights violations on commercial fishing vessels in the United Kingdom.
Together, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Fair Food Program (FFP) of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) are looking to implement the worker-driven social responsibility (WSR) model in the industry. The WSR is a U.S.-based human rights initiative highly regarded for implementing monitoring and enforcing workplace protections in food-industry supply chains, according to the ITF.