'Food Chains' Screening Brings Florida Immokalee Workers' Struggle Back to OC
Updated: Sep 25, 2020
The rebellion in Florida fields by Immakolee workers chronicled in the new documentary Food Chains partially started in Irvine. Tomato pickers, toiling under exploitative conditions, took their fight to Taco Bell's Irvine headquarters during a four-year "Boycott the Bell" campaign that ended in 2005. The fast food chain finally agreed to pay a penny more per pound of tomatoes harvested in a victory for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). It propelled their Fair Food Program--one of the most powerful examples of labor organizing in the 21st century--to take on other companies with the same demand. The story of their struggle is set to return to Irvine by way of a special Food Chains screening on November 24 along with a protest action against Wendy's! Read more on my latest OC Weekly Stick a Fork In It blog post:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2014/11/coalition_of_immokalee.php