An account of my stay in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, and traveling around 'n junk

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Yo no quiero taco bell!

I had the chance to support this group in Florida at the FTAA protests in 2003, and also in Irvine, CA in 2004. Read more about this successful campaign to improve working conditions for farmworkers in Florida below.

COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS, TACO BELL(r) REACH GROUNDBREAKING
AGREEMENT

March 8, 2005 (IMMOKALEE/LOUISVILLE) - In a precedent-setting move,
fast-food industry leader Taco Bell Corp., a division of Yum! Brands
(NYSE: YUM), has agreed to work with the Florida-based farm worker
organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), to address the
wages and working conditions of farmworkers in the Florida tomato
industry.

read more: http://www.ciw-online.org/news.html

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home