{"article":{"id":7445,"heading":"Protest at Taco Bell, June 21st, Pasadena","author":"fwsc","created":"2001-06-18 06:11:18","modified":"2001-06-18 07:00:01","last_modified":"Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:00:01","article":"

(please forward)

Support Farmworkers' Rights...BOYCOTT TACO BELL

Come to a protest to raise awareness about the boycott..

Protest in front of Taco Bell,

1953 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.

June 21. NOON. (at intersection of Berkeley and Colorado, about five blocks east of Pasadena City College)

On April 1, 2001 the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker union in Florida, called a NATIONAL boycott

of Taco Bell, because;

Tomato pickers: $7,500 per year.

Taco Bell: $5.2 billion in revenues

in 1999.

Tomato pickers in Florida who pick tomatoes for Taco Bell are paid below-poverty wages, have no health insurance, no sick leave, no paid holidays, no paid vacations, no pension and they are denied the right to organize a union and the right to overtime pay for overtime work. The pickers are paid 40 cents for every bucket they pick, the same rate they were getting in 1978.

Taco Bell earned $5.2 billion in revenues in 1999 and Tricon Global, which owns Taco Bell, owns more

restaurants than any company in the world, and yet Taco Bell refuses to negotiate increases in wages for the

people who pick their tomatoes.

For more info. please visit http:\/\/www.ciw-online.org<\/a>

Please consider the situation of the farmworkers that picked the tomatoes you will eat today and let Taco Bell

know that you expect them to meet with the farmworkers' representatives. Call or write: Emil J. Brolick, President

and Chief Concept Officer,Taco Bell Corp., 17901 Von Karman, Irvine, California 92614, tel. (949) 863-4500

Organizers of protest: Farm Worker Support Committee (part of UCB California Students Against Sweatshops)-UC Berkeley, Santa Monica College Progressive Alliance, Pasadena City College Students for Social Justice

(For more information about the protest call (323) 962-6045)<\/p>\n","contact":"Sara.S@anarch.zzn.com","link":"http:\/\/www.ciw-online.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Support Florida Tomato Pickers\r\nBoycott Taco Bell\r\nProtest in front of Taco Bell, \r\n1953 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena.\r\nJune 21. NOON. (at intersection of Berkeley and Colorado, about five blocks east of Pasadena City College)","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/06\/7445.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}