Archive for November 29th, 2007
Penny Foolish: Schlosser NY Times op-ed discusses migrant worker pay
In an op-ed for today’s New York Times, Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser looks at Burger King’s refusal to support a penny-a-pound increase in the price they pay for Florida-grown tomatoes and how this affects the migrant workers who pick the tomatoes. His description of abuses of undocumented migrant workers sounds familiar and provides [...]
Posted: November 29th, 2007 under agriculture, farm workers, labor, migrant workers.
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