From left: Luis
Sarmiento, 30, Pedro López, 39, and Natali Rodriguez, 27,
come together in
alliance with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
to boycott Wendy's
while
playing the ukulele on
Norman Field on Thursday afternoon.
Representative for
the Coalition for Immokalee Workers Oscar Otzoy watches a
video Tuesday depicting the injustices faced by local farmers. The
Coalition for Immokalee Workers is instituting a ban on Wendy's because they
believe the company does not provide its farm workers a livable wage and humane
working conditions.
The Coalition for
Immokalee Workers spoke near campus on Tuesday about the unfair conditions they
face harvesting tomatoes for companies like Wendy's.
Workers may get paid
only 30 or 40 cents per bucket.
“If you care about
justice,
if you care about the people that are here,
you need to do business
the right way,”
a spokesperson said in Spanish through a translator.
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