March 10, 2005

WE WON! After nearly four years of national boycott, the Coalition of Immokalee (Florida) Workers have won their fight for an additional penny per pound of tomatoes picked. Boycotts work!
posted by scartol 19 years ago
  • "The extra penny added per pound picked will almost double the yearly salaries of the roughly 1,000 farm workers employed by Taco Bell suppliers, Benetiz said." Jaysis... I... I'm speechless.
  • This is great news. It's so rare to see a significant win by labor nowadays, so this is exciting.
  • Congrats. Though I was kind of hoping that the 2005 Taco Bell Truth Tour would feature some information about exactly how many insect exoskeletons and mouse feet are processed into the new Ultra CheeseFoodProducty Dinglenachos, or whatever sludge they're pushing lately.
  • I've been following this on and off since it started, this is big news.
  • Woohoo! Our Cichanno brothers got some more copper! Next, they should ask for buses! Eh, calbrone?
  • Good! I'm still boycotting taco bell though. Cause it sucks.
  • "we"?
  • Counter-terrorists win! High five, everyone!
  • Well done lads and lasses. Sad thing with struggles like these though is even when you win you're still working for a pittance and the company's still turning fat profits. The choice remains one between socialism or barbarism.
  • Yes, Mfpb, we. You see, those of us involved in assorted solidarity struggles see ourselves as being united in the fight for justice and freedom. Our respective destinies intertwined, we understand that a victory for farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida is also a victory for educators in Madison, Wisconsin. Thus the first-person plural pronoun.
  • [This is good]
  • Hit em in the wallet hard enough and they'll listen. Good.
  • All right! Now I can call up Taco Bell and tell that that I can go back... Mmm. Taco Bell.
  • Yeah, but guess where that extra penny will get passed along to? The customer, that's who. Damn wetbacks raising the price of my shitty Taco Bell food. If I can no loner buy 50 bean burritos for a nickel at Taco Bell, I am so no longer watching TV's George Lopez's show.