...[There's] nothing resembling...market consequence[s] with real teeth — yet — built into the produce industry’s recently released “Ethical Charter.”  Genuine, informed worker participation and real enforcement mechanisms will be imperative going forward if this new initiative is to have any hope of success in bringing meaningful human rights protections to the US and Mexican produce industries... You can find the public draft of the Charter in its entirety here.

...[No] worker-led organization that we are aware of was at the table as this Ethical Charter was being developed, and, unfortunately, that omission is reflected clearly in the result. 

Food Safety vs. Worker Safety: Different Approaches to Similar Problems… The contrast between the industry’s robust [zero tolerance] response to food borne illness and its considerably more tepid approach to rooting out labor abuses is not hard to discern...

In [its] stated values, one can find signs indicating that the authors of the Charter mean well... [It] is our experience, following six years of implementation of the Fair Food Program, that a) worker participation and b) enforcement mechanisms with meaningful consequences for violations are, together, the defining factors in any successful effort... Unfortunately, it appears...[the] Ethical Charter is sorely lacking in precisely these two key areas... As a result, the Charter is at this stage, with one exception [regarding child labour], little more than an elaborately-constructed promise to do nothing more than comply with existing labor laws, without any means to monitor or enforce even that limited goal.

[refers to Wendy's, Publix]