Toolkit: Flower Workers and Economic Justice

This Toolkit provides tips on how to take action in support of flower workers, who are mostly women, in Colombia! It includes resources to make it easier for you to make a difference!

Brochure to print out and circulate This short (bilingual!) brochure is a great organizing tool for educating people about the problems faced by flower workers. For more detailed information, see USLEAP's background booklet, "Gendered Injustice."  Copies of the brochure and booklet are available upon request from the office.

Flower Industry Petition A petition you and others can sign and send to flower industry leaders!

Send your representatives and flower industry leaders an email now! These two-click email actions are the easiest and fastest way to let your representatives and the flower industry know what you think. Feel free to change the sample letters and subject lines.

Call Your Members of Congress! Directions for calling your Members of Congress and a sample call-in script.

Write a letter to the editor! This is a start-to-finish guide to writing a letter to the editor about the rights of flower workers, who are mostly women, in Colombia.

Ask your local florist or supermarket representative where they buy their flowers, and express concern about the conditions faced by flower workers in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America. Raising questions and concerns at the consumer level can filter up the chain and let employers know that this is an issue of growing concern that should be addressed.

Flower Talking Points This addresses some of the key points and issues that negatively affect the rights of flower workers, who are mostly women, in Colombia.