Hundreds of farmworkers, led by Ethel Kennedy, protested near the home of Wendy’s billionaire chairman Nelson Peltz on Saturday in hopes of convincing the company to pay more for its tomatoes. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has used demonstrations and sometimes consumer boycotts to pressure Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Taco Bell into joining its “fair food program,” which pays a penny-per-pound fee for tomatoes to supplement farmworkers’ wages. All except Wendy’s eventually joined. We look at the “fair food” protest against Wendy’s on the Lip News with Joya Mia Italiano and Jason Venzor.
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