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Florida Tomato Pickers Win Campaign Against McDonalds over Wages, Work Conditions

HeadlineApr 10, 2007

A group of tomato pickers from Florida have claimed a major victory in their two-year grassroots campaign against the fast-food giant McDonald’s. On Tuesday, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced McDonald’s has agreed to pay a penny more per pound of tomatoes, enforce worker regulations, and agree to third-party oversight. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a farmworker organization made up largely of indigent immigrants who work tomato fields in southwest Florida. The group was in the midst of a cross-country bus tour that was to end in Illinois Friday with a rally in front of McDonald’s global headquarters. The agreement comes two years after the Immokalee Workers led a successful boycott of Taco Bell.

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