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By Doug Cunningham

It took more than a year of hard work, protests and a public campaign, but the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will be able to deliver improved wages and working conditions now for workers picking tomatoes used by Burger King. The giant fast-food chain has agreed to pay a penny more per pound for tomatoes that are harvested. Similar efforts won higher wages for farm workers from McDonald’s and Taco Bell. The Immokalee Workers say the long struggle to get Burger King to pay more for tomatoes has been trying, but the union is prepared to move forward now toward a future of full respect for the human rights for workers in Florida’s tomato fields.