Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network

Tomato Pickers Won Better Protections. Can Their Strategy Work for Poultry?

“Workers from other industries are taking note of the CIW’s successes. Joining the tomato pickers, college-student activists, and aging lefties at the Palm Beach protest were six employees of the meat giant Tyson. These workers made the trek from Springdale, Arkansas, as members of Venceremos, a poultry workers-rights group, to learn firsthand how their counterparts in Immokalee have organized to improve their lives. “In isolated, largely white rural communities, you feel so powerless,” says Magaly Licolli, the group’s co-founder and director. “Seeing what the coalition has accomplished gives us back a sense of hope.”

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