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10 Feb 2012

Author:
Carey Polis, Huffington Post [USA]

Trader Joe's Signs Fair Food Agreement On Tomatoes With Immokalee Workers [USA]

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Trader Joe's relented this week and signed a Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based organization of mainly Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants employed in low-wage jobs in Florida. The agreement requires the grocery store to pay a penny more per pound of tomatoes and to ensure better working conditions for tomato workers..."This is nearly a 50 percent raise for the workers," Barry Estabrook,..."Tomatoland"..., told The Huffington Post. "These are desperately poor people."...The CIW now plans to focus its attention on the major supermarket chain Publix... [also refers to signatories Taco Bell (part of YUM!), McDonald's, Burger King, Whole Foods]