[Peace-discuss] Taco Bell boycott alert - please fwd

[Ricky Baldwin]

ALERT!
FARMWORKER PUPPET TO PICKET URBANA TACO BELL!

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a farmworker organization based in 
Florida, has called an international boycott of Taco Bell.  Why?

“SWEATSHOPS IN THE FIELDS”

The members of CIW pick tomatoes for Six-L's Packing Co. - Taco Bell's 
principle supplier of tomatoes – where they receive sub-poverty wages, no 
overtime pay, no health insurance, no sick leave, no holiday leave, and no 
pension!  Six-L's pays today what the industry paid as a standard piece rate 
over 20 years ago – 40 cents per 32-lbs of tomatoes!

ONE PENNY MORE

Taco Bell has the power and responsibility to change this situation for the 
workers who plant, cultivate, and harvest the tomatoes from which they 
profit.  If Taco Bell were to pay one penny more per pound for the tomatoes 
it buys from Florida growers, and the growers were to pass that extra penny 
on to the workers, the rate paid to workers could nearly double!

WANNA HELP?

Locally call 356-2205, or email <baldwinricky at hotmail.com>.

For more info: www.ciw-online.org


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