Call Now: One burrito, no justice

[Omaha Steve]

Since we wrote to you a few weeks ago, more than 10,000 activists, including you, have urged Chipotle to stand up for exploited Florida farmworkers.

Momentum is building. People around the country have been calling on Chipotle to live up to its “food with integrity” promise – and now they’ve taken their demands to the streets, protesting in front of film screenings sponsored by Chipotle.

Can you back the efforts of these demonstrators by making a quick toll-free call to Chipotle's corporate headquarters?

Calling is easy to do: just follow these three easy steps:

1. Call Chipotle toll-free at 1-888-899-0017.

2. Tell the person who picks up the phone – or leave a message – saying that you want Chipotle to live up to its "food with integrity" promise by standing up for Florida farmworkers. You can also add:

* The Florida workers who pick Chipotle's tomatoes have one of the worst jobs in America, with sub-poverty wages, back-breaking labor, and unimaginable exploitation.

* It's time for Chipotle to join in a formal agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers – a widely respected farmworker organization and a leader in the field of human rights.

* Partnering with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will ensure the workers who pick Chipotle's tomatoes are treated fairly and paid a living wage.

3. IMPORTANT: After you call, click here and tell us how it went.




Hoping for a bit of good publicity, Chipotle has been sponsoring screenings of Food, Inc., a new documentary about injustices in the food system.

It's a good film – but Chipotle doesn’t seem to be getting the film’s message – they’ve refused to join in a formal agreement to build better working conditions for the Florida workers who pick their produce and face exploitation and poverty wages.

Activists have been demonstrating outside Chipotle’s movie screenings to point out the hypocrisy, but Chipotle has tried desperately to stop the message from spreading – even going so far as to remove volunteers from tables they’ve reserved at the screenings!

Chipotle can't have it both ways. They can't claim to stand for "food with integrity" while ignoring worker exploitation in their supply chain. We're going to keep turning up the heat until Chipotle does the right thing and lives by their own "food with integrity" pledge.

And to do that, we need YOUR help! Please, call 1-888-899-0017 right now!

Thanks you for all that you do.

Sincerely,

Liz, Manny, Elizabeth B., and the American Rights at Work team

P.S. Once you've called, you can ask your friends to sign the letter and follow up with a phone call by clicking here.