CIW Testifies Before U.S. Senate About Present-Day Slavery in the Fields

At a hearing yesterday in the U.S. Senate, the Coalition of Immokolee Workers (CIW) presented their case that tomato pickers in Florida were living and working in slave conditions.

The CIW has staged national campaigns boycotting Taco Bell and McDonalds which have succeeded in winning the tomato pickers a 1 cent increase per pound of tomatoes picked. There is a current campaign against Burger King for the 1 cent increase which will converge in a mass procession in Miami this April 28 to deliver to the Burger King headquarters the petitions gathered in support of the worker’s struggle.