When United Farm Workers organizer Frank Curiel answered the phone in mid-December, he had just come from Quincy Farms, which each year produces 25 million pounds of white button mushrooms and 500,000 pounds of giant portobellos.
Burger KingCorporation has reached an agreement with a migrant workers’ advocacy group that is backed by U.S. churches. The agreement will raise wages for tomato pickers by one cent per pound.
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