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Farm workers on 5-day march for fair wages and working conditions [1]

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Date: 2023-03-17

Every time I eat I send a little prayer of gratitude for those who grow, harvest, process, store, transport, and sell the food I so easily select at the grocery store. it seems to me that if we cannot pay a living wage to anyone who works so that we can live, we are relying on slave labor still. This seems like a terrific event. I would love to support it if I lived in this area of Florida.

Farmworkers lead 5-day march to pressure companies on wages, work conditions

Farmworkers were leading a five-day, 45-mile (72-kilometer) trek on foot this week from one of the poorest communities in Florida to a mansion-lined, oceanfront town that is one of the richest in an effort to pressure retailers to leverage their purchasing power for better worker pay and working conditions. The farmworkers said they were marching to highlight the Fair Food Program, which has enlisted companies like McDonald’s, Walmart, Taco Bell and Whole Foods to use their clout with growers to ensure better working conditions and wages for farmworkers. They hoped to use the march to pressure other companies, like Publix, Wendy’s and Kroger, to join the program that started in 2011.

They are marching from one of the poorest areas of Florida to one of the richest, and will arrive at that rich place, Palm Beach, on Saturday.

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