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Farm Bosses Plead Guilty to Enslaving Immokalee Workers in Florida Tomato Harvest
Business  (tags: Florida, Immokalee, Slavery, human rights, labor laws, successful prosecution, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, industry-friendly, "third-party" monitoring group, Intertek, Burger King, slavery charges )

Alba
- 455 days ago - ciw-online.org
Yesterday, at federal court in Ft.Myers, FL, farm bosses from Immokalee pleaded guilty to "numerous charges of enslaving Mexican & Guatemalan immigrants, brutalizing them & forcing them to work in farm fields, 1 of most extreme stories of exploitation...
Is Burger King Spying on Labor Activists?
Business  (tags: union-busting, espionage, burger king, labor, tomato pickers )

Kemsa
- 574 days ago - alternet.org
"If you're a student in Virginia, how do you get access to a Burger King internal document?"
Tomato-Pickers Feeling Spied On - Campaign of Dirty Tricks Tied to Burger King
Business  (tags: US, Florida, Burger King, tomato pickers, CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Student/Farmworker Alliance )

Alba
- 598 days ago - news-press.com
Who'd spy on a couple of nonprofit human rights groups? Who'd hire professional infiltrator to sit in on their planning sessions? Who'd attack them on Web for their efforts to improve lives of workers who pick produce for world's largest fast food chains?
Kennedy Joins Fray Over Tomato Pickers
Business  (tags: Burger King, tomato pickers, Ted Kennedy, farm workers )


- 684 days ago - forbes.com
MIAMI - Four U.S. Senators, including the head of the Senate's health, education and labor committee, on Friday joined advocates to urge Burger King Corp. and Florida tomato growers to help boost farm worker wages.
Tomato Pickers Protest At Burger King
Business  (tags: burger king, tomato, workers )

Ben
- 733 days ago - blogmyway.org
Farmworkers, union members and activists marched through Miami's city streets to Burger King headquarters Friday to protest low wages for tomato pickers and alleged exploitation of field workers. (Nov. 30). Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
   

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