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• Position: Demonstration protests the pay of Florida's tomato pickers - Brief Article

Gainesville, Florida

On February 4, more than 100 protesters chanting "No Quiero Taco Bell" picketed the West University Avenue restaurant as they decried the low pay Florida tomato pickers receive. Lucas Benetiz of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers said farmworkers contracted by the franchise are paid forty cents for each thirty-two-pound bucket of tomatoes picked. That is the same as the per-bucket rate paid in 1978, he said. The action was part of the "2001 Taco...