immokalee workers win against mcdonalds:
Still the agricultural industry in Florida, in the words of federal officials, has become “ground zero for modern day slavery.” The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has helped prosecute six slavery cases of involuntary servitude involving over 1,000 farmworkers in Florida since 1997.
(...) Everyone has a human right to just working conditions, including fair wages that provide for a decent living for workers and their families. Today the average farmworker in Immokalee has a yearly income of less than $7,500. The CIW demands that farmworkers be paid a penny per a pound of tomatoes picked directly from produce purchasers like McDonald’s and Yum! Foods. The increase effectively doubles the wages of farmworkers picking for their suppliers. If the entire industry stepped up like these two companies and made similar agreements, farmworkers and their families could overcome extreme poverty.