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Greg Asbed
Human Rights Strategist | Class of 2017
Transforming conditions for low-wage workers with a visionary model of worker-driven social responsibility.


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Title
Human Rights Strategist
Affiliation
Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Fair Food Program
Location
Immokalee, Florida
Age
54 at time of award
Area of Focus
Civil Society and Community Organizing, Human Rights and Human Security
Website
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Fair Food Program
Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network
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Published October 11, 2017
ABOUT GREG'S WORK
Greg Asbed is a human rights strategist developing a new model—worker-driven social responsibility (WSR)—for improving conditions for low-wage workers within the twenty-first-century labor market. WSR is a bottom-up approach that ensures human rights are respected in the workplace; workers play a central role in establishing work condition standards and codes of conduct and have transparent channels for monitoring and enforcing those standards.

WSR emerged from the decades-long work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an organization co-founded by Asbed, with Lucas Benitez and Laura Germino, in 1993 to redress injustices in the Florida tomato industry, including forced labor, sexual assault, and wage theft. Asbed was a principal architect of the coalition's Fair Food Program (FFP), a mechanism by which the purchasing power of consumers and large food companies is tapped to compel growers to improve farmworkers' working conditions. Growers agree to adhere to a code of conduct in the treatment of workers, and workers are educated (by other workers) about their rights and responsibilities. Purchasers have a zero-tolerance policy for abuses by their suppliers and also agree to pay a penny-per-pound premium that goes directly into growers' payrolls as a line-item bonus on workers' paychecks. Asbed helped devise the Fair Foods Standards Council, an independent monitoring organization, to ensure compliance through regular audits and complaint investigations. Since 2010, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange and over a dozen purchasers, including Walmart, have signed on to the Fair Food Program. With the success of the FFP in the tomato industry, Asbed envisioned the potential for wider economic and social change, and together with colleagues, he designed the WSR framework.

Workforces engaged with other crops in Florida, the garment industry in Bangladesh, and the dairy industry in Vermont have already or are in the process of adopting the WSR approach, and Asbed's expertise is being sought by international organizations for the development of customized variants of the WSR model to address such issues as child labor in Africa and gender-based violence in domestic work settings in Mexico. Asbed's visionary strategy for WSR has the potential to transform workplace environments across the global supply chain.

BIOGRAPHY
Greg Asbed received a B.S. (1985) from Brown University and an M.A. (1990) from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to co-founding the Coalition for Immokalee Workers (CIW) in 1993, he spent three years in Haiti as part of the Peasant Movement of Papaye. He also harvested watermelons in the southeastern United States for eighteen seasons and is a founding member of the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network.



Greg Asbed
人权战略家 | 2017级
以工人驱动的社会责任的有远见的模式，改变低工资工人的条件。


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标题
人权战略家
所属机构
伊莫卡利工人联盟和公平食品计划
工作地点
伊莫卡利, 佛罗里达州
年龄
获奖时为54岁
关注领域
民间社会和社区组织, 人权和人类安全
网站
伊莫卡利工人联盟
公平食品计划
工人驱动的社会责任网络
社会
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发表于2017年10月11日
关于格雷格的工作
Greg Asbed是一位人权战略家，他正在开发一种新的模式--工人驱动的社会责任（WSR），以改善二十一世纪劳动力市场中低工资工人的条件。WSR是一种自下而上的方法，确保人权在工作场所得到尊重；工人在建立工作条件标准和行为准则方面发挥核心作用，并有透明的渠道来监督和执行这些标准。

WSR产生于伊莫卡利工人联盟（CIW）几十年的工作，该组织由阿斯贝德与卢卡斯-贝尼特斯和劳拉-杰米诺于1993年共同创立，旨在纠正佛罗里达州番茄行业的不公正现象，包括强迫劳动、性攻击和工资盗窃。阿斯贝德是该联盟的公平食品计划（FFP）的主要设计师，通过该机制，消费者和大型食品公司的购买力被挖掘出来，迫使种植者改善农场工人的工作条件。种植者同意遵守对待工人的行为准则，工人们（通过其他工人）接受教育，了解他们的权利和责任。采购商对其供应商的虐待行为采取零容忍政策，并同意每磅支付一分钱的保险费，作为工人工资单上的一个项目奖金直接进入种植者的工资单。阿斯贝德帮助设计了公平食品标准委员会，这是一个独立的监督组织，通过定期审计和投诉调查确保合规。自2010年以来，佛罗里达州番茄种植者交易所和包括沃尔玛在内的十多家采购商已经签署了公平食品计划。随着公平食品计划在番茄行业的成功，阿斯贝德预见了更广泛的经济和社会变革的潜力，他和同事们一起设计了WSR框架。

佛罗里达州的其他农作物、孟加拉国的服装业和佛蒙特州的乳制品业已经或正在采用WSR方法，国际组织也在寻求Asbed的专业知识，以开发WSR模式的定制版本，解决诸如非洲的童工和墨西哥家庭工作环境中的性别暴力等问题。阿斯贝德对WSR的愿景战略有可能改变整个全球供应链的工作场所环境。

个人简历
Greg Asbed在布朗大学获得学士学位（1985年），在约翰霍普金斯大学获得硕士学位（1990年）。在1993年共同创立伊莫卡利工人联盟（CIW）之前，他在海地参加了三年的帕帕耶农民运动。他还在美国东南部收获了18个季节的西瓜，是工人驱动的社会责任网络的创始成员。