Farmworkers use Florida march to pressure other companies

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Florida farmworkers say they are leading a five-day, 45-mile trek on foot to highlight the Fair Food Program, which enlists major food companies to use their clout with growers to ensure better working conditions and wages for farmworkers.

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.

The march began Tuesday from the farming community of Pahokee, one of the poorest in Florida, where the

 

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