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Article

23 May 2008

Author:
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation [US]

Sweet Victory: Coalition for Immokalee Workers Wins

On May 23, we celebrate a sweet victory for social justice. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) will join representatives of the Coalition for Immokalee Workers (CIW) and the Burger King Corporation at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol to announce that the corporation has agreed to work with CIW to improve wages and working conditions for the farm workers who harvest tomatoes for Burger King. This victory is testament to the tenacity and discipline of the Coalition...which has exposed a half-dozen slavery cases that helped trigger the freeing of more than 1000 workers...[T]he Coalition's Benitez...[said]: "Today we are one step closer [for]...farmworkers [to]...enjoy a fair wage and humane working conditions...We are not there yet, but we are getting there, and this agreement should send a strong message to the rest of the restaurant and supermarket industry..." [also refers to McDonald's, Yum! Brands (owner of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC)]