Farm worker advocates to present Burger King with petitions From: timesdaily.com

Farm worker advocates sought to present more than 80,000 signatures to Burger King officials Monday urging the fast-food giant to join McDonald’s Corp. and Taco Bell to help boost the wages of Florida tomato pickers and improve working conditions in the fields.

The presentation of the petitions, collected from all 50 states and 43 countries, came the same day that a newspaper reported a top Burger King official used his young daughter’s e-mail address to spread misinformation about the farmworker group.

“We want Burger King to come to the discussion table and enter into an agreement with the coalition,” said Gerardo Reyes, a farmworker and member of the group, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. “We are making the same demands we have made of the rest of the fast-food industry.”"*

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