Pickets to be held at Triangle, NC Burger King Restaurants
Join us, or plan actions in your community!
Friday, November 30
4:30pm -- 6pm in Chapel Hill. Burger King at 450 S. Elliott Rd.
4:30pm – 6pm in Durham. Burger King at 1200 W. Club Blvd
4:30pm – 6pm in Raleigh. Burger King at 3701 Hillsborough Street
In solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) nine-mile march in Miami to Burger King's headquarters, Student Action with Farmworkers and the National Farm Worker Ministry will host a picket of selected Burger King locations in the Triangle demanding that Burger King confront the human rights crisis thriving today in tomato fields.
Farmworkers in tomato fields face sweatshop conditions—pickers earn $10,000/year on average & a per-bucket piece rate that hasn't changed since 1978. Workers have no right to overtime pay, to organize, or to benefits of any kind. In the most extreme cases, farmworkers face conditions of modern-day slavery.
By leveraging its high-volume purchasing power, Burger King plays an active role in creating the miserable conditions in Florida's fields. The CIW has established groundbreaking agreements with Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, McDonald's and others to directly improve farmworker wages and working conditions in these companies' tomato supply chains. Now, the CIW has called on Burger King to do the same.
Burger King, however, has publicly rejected demands to take responsibility for the human rights crisis in the fields where its tomatoes are harvested and has tried to deny the reality of the daily poverty and abuses endured by farmworkers.
Join students and community members as we move Burger King to stand with tomato pickers in their fight for fundamental human rights in the fields on November 30.
The events are sponsored by the Farmworker Ministry Committee of the North Carolina Council of Churches, Farmworker Advocacy Network, National Farm Worker Ministry, North Carolina Justice Center, Student Action with Farmworkers, and Triangle Friends of the United Farm Workers
CONTACT:
Laxmi Haynes
National Student Organizer, Student Action with Farmworkers, 919-660-3660, farmworker_justice at yahoo dot com
Alexandria Jones
Outreach Coordinator, National Farm Worker Ministry, 919-597-1080, ajones at nfwm dot org
Solidarity Day for Burger King Campaign-Nov.30th!
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