News & Notes
Helping to Build a Skilled Professional Agricultural Workforce
CIERTO is one of North America’s leading recruiters, dedicated to assisting employers with the federal H-2A visa program. We recruit, train, and place experienced workers on farms in the United States.
Our mission is to actively develop and maintain a professional, career-oriented, agricultural workforce, committed to returning to farms year after year
Our team loves working with journalists to share compelling stories. If you’re a member of the media and would like to talk with us about how ethical migrant worker recruitment is good for everyone in the supply chain, send an email to H2A@CiertoGlobal.Org.
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Partnerships & Incentives Key To Business Case for Fair Recruitment
As part of his ongoing mission to show conclusively that clean recruiting is both the right thing to do, and good business, CIERTO Co-Founder Joe Martinez participated in a virtual panel sponsored by the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Fair Recruitment...
Clean Labor Recruiting Safeguards the Rights of Female Workers
UN Panel Highlights the Voices of Female Migrant Workers Last week CIERTO COO Carolyn Fairman was featured on a UN panel focusing on women in the migrant labor force. Presented by the AVINA Foundation, Women Speak: Experiences and Good Practices to Strengthen the...
Transforming H2A Recruiting Risk Into Opportunity
CIERTO's H2A Program Director Leads Responsible Recruitment Panel Contributing to the People First Spotlight on Social Responsibility, cosponsored by The Packer (thepacker.com) and the Equitable Food Initiative (EFI), CIERTO H2A Program Director Norma Encinas played a...
US Agriculture’s Reliance on Migrant Labor
WHAT IT TAKES TO COME TO WORK IN AMERICA We worked with Walmart to assemble this video that includes valuable information and a moving story about the courage and drive it takes for migrant laborers to come work in the United States.
What Ethical Recruitment Really Means to People
CIERTO's Chief Operating Officer Featured in Ongoing Supply Chain Sustainability Series As part of People First, an ongoing series of interviews, profiles, and articles on building a sustainable produce supply chain by The Packer, our COO Carolyn Fairman chatted with...
Professionalizing Migrant Workers Good for All Involved in Fresh Produce Supply Chain
CIERTO Co-Founder Tapped for International Panel on Sustainable Recruiting In April, CIERTO Co-Founder and CEO, Joe Martinez, was himself recruited to participate in a panel on fair recruitment in Agriculture. The panel took place at the 2021 Global Forum for...
IT TAKES AN ECOSYSTEM
CIERTO COFOUNDER & CEO PARTICIPATES IN PANEL ON FAIR & ETHICAL RECRUITMENT IN AGRICULTURE Last week CIERTO was honored to be invited to participate in the 2021 Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment (GFRR), an annual conference of non-profit organizations,...
CIERTO AWARDED GRANT BY WALMART FOUNDATION TO EXPAND SCOPE OF ETHICAL H2A MIGRANT WORKER RECRUITMENT
CIERTO, the leading provider of responsible farm worker recruiting for growers in North America, has been awarded an $800,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to help CIERTO expand its presence in the H-2A system, build its training teams...