Burger King's purchasing practices
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This from an online newsletter i subscribe to:
Farm workers who pick tomatoes for Burger King's sandwiches earn 40 to 50 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they pick, a rate that has not risen significantly in nearly 30 years. Workers who toil from dawn to dusk must pick two tons of tomatoes to earn $50 in one day.
Worse yet, modern-day slavery has reemerged in Florida's fields; since 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice has prosecuted five slavery rings, freeing more than 1,000 workers. As a major buyer of Florida tomatoes, Burger King's purchasing practices place downward pressure on farm worker wages and put corporate profits before human dignity.
Click here to send a message to Burger King: "Farm workers deserve fair wages!"
Last year, Sojourners supporters like you sent over 25,000 letters in support of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) campaign to urge McDonald's to do right by Florida farm workers.
Together, we helped to win an important victory, as McDonald's recently committed to work with the CIW to improve wages and enforce a code of conduct for conditions in the fields. And YUM! Brands, corporate parent to such chains as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut, has made the same commitment.
But Burger King -- the second-largest hamburger chain in the world -- has so far refused to work with farm workers and heed the call of the faith community to improve wages and working conditions for those who pick their tomatoes.
Burger King is able to pool the buying power of thousands of restaurants to extract the lowest possible tomato prices from its suppliers. But these artificially cheap tomatoes come at a high cost for farm workers.
Tell Burger King to clean up its act and ensure fair wages for farm workers.
As people of faith, we believe all workers have the right to a safe and productive work environment, including a wage that allows them to support their families with dignity:
"Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts." (James 5:4)
Send a letter to Burger King CEO John Chidsey to call on Burger King to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to ensure fair wages and human rights for farm workers in its tomato supply chain:
Thank you for taking action in solidarity with Florida farm workers.
Blessings,
Yonce, Amy, Bob, Kim, and the rest of the team at Sojourners/Call to Renewal
P.S. Can you forward this message
edit: link removed because of personal info contained.
Farm workers who pick tomatoes for Burger King's sandwiches earn 40 to 50 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they pick, a rate that has not risen significantly in nearly 30 years. Workers who toil from dawn to dusk must pick two tons of tomatoes to earn $50 in one day.
Worse yet, modern-day slavery has reemerged in Florida's fields; since 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice has prosecuted five slavery rings, freeing more than 1,000 workers. As a major buyer of Florida tomatoes, Burger King's purchasing practices place downward pressure on farm worker wages and put corporate profits before human dignity.
Click here to send a message to Burger King: "Farm workers deserve fair wages!"
Last year, Sojourners supporters like you sent over 25,000 letters in support of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) campaign to urge McDonald's to do right by Florida farm workers.
Together, we helped to win an important victory, as McDonald's recently committed to work with the CIW to improve wages and enforce a code of conduct for conditions in the fields. And YUM! Brands, corporate parent to such chains as Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut, has made the same commitment.
But Burger King -- the second-largest hamburger chain in the world -- has so far refused to work with farm workers and heed the call of the faith community to improve wages and working conditions for those who pick their tomatoes.
Burger King is able to pool the buying power of thousands of restaurants to extract the lowest possible tomato prices from its suppliers. But these artificially cheap tomatoes come at a high cost for farm workers.
Tell Burger King to clean up its act and ensure fair wages for farm workers.
As people of faith, we believe all workers have the right to a safe and productive work environment, including a wage that allows them to support their families with dignity:
"Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts." (James 5:4)
Send a letter to Burger King CEO John Chidsey to call on Burger King to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to ensure fair wages and human rights for farm workers in its tomato supply chain:
Thank you for taking action in solidarity with Florida farm workers.
Blessings,
Yonce, Amy, Bob, Kim, and the rest of the team at Sojourners/Call to Renewal
P.S. Can you forward this message
edit: link removed because of personal info contained.
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Yes it will!
but this doesn't surprise me...didn't some ppl protest mcdonalds for something similar a little while ago? smithfield, too, forgot what that strike was over...anyway they can make a buck...
does anyone remember after 9/11 burger king had 'the all american burger' and the ad said it had 'freshly tossed lettuce'? wtf is 'freshly tossed lettuce'?? wow, i bet wendys doesn't toss their lettuce
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I am not a person of faith. I must not give a shit about slavery then. ah well.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
In no way does it imply that. Sojourners is a left leaning Christian organization. The text i posted is from an e-mail newsletter i subscribe to. As a Christian organization, it is assumed that most subscribers probably are "people of faith". That doesn't mean the information cannot and should not be shared with non-christians. It doesn't imply that non-Christians are not concerned with such issues.
So if I said, "As atheists, we must be concerned about the immoralities of using slave labor," you wouldn't interpret that as an attempt to associate moral behavior with atheism? It's an inherently exclusionary statement.
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
If YOU said it, well, maybe. But if it were an atheist newsletter sent to its subscribers, and in nowhere was it stated that people of faith were in no way concerned with the such immoralities, i wouldn't interpret it as such at all.
but i gotta be honest.....
i dont give a rats ass how much the tomato pickers for burger king get paid....
and i will never give a rats ass how much they get paid.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
My thought is this is what libertarianism does. Libertarianism is alive and well, but most people here call it capitalism.
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I am libertarian and am totally opposed to slavery. I'm against coersion and force. But maybe when you say slavery you're talking about something else. What is your definition of slavery?
This isn't about me, or what I believe, this is about those farm workers in America who are still being paid deplorable wages and living in deplorable living conditions. I would call it a slave condition. Why does it get to this situation in this day in age to begin with? Is it because those business owners in Florida (and Burger King) believe it to be their liberty to treat people in such a way?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58505-2005Feb27_2.html
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Oh, yeah... that and I don't like their food.
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