Chipotle Mexican Grill Seeks to Pay Tomato Pickers Better Wages

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11941

Chipotle Mexican Grill is the most recent fast food chain to agree to increase the wages of tomato pickers in Florida. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has previously reached agreements from McDonald’s, Subway, Taco Bell, and others through concentrated campaigns. Once the agreement is activated workers will see wages jump from 50 cents per 32-pound tomato bucket to 82 cents per tomato bucket. The Chipotle move is significant because the East Coast Growers and Packers quit the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange so they could make the deal happen. The Exchange has threatened to fine members who take part in deals reached with the Coaltion. East Coast Growers is a family-owned tomato grower and by quitting the Exchange they could possibly attract other fast food restaurants that have agreed to pay workers better wages.

[TheMadMonk]

1. FFS, we were paid almost that much 25 years ago here in Aust.

For freeking sauce tomatoes. And that was (shh, don't tell the taxman) bloody cash in hand.