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March 17, 2014

Farmworkers End 5-State March with Florida Vigil 
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And hundreds of farmworkers and their supporters have wrapped up a
five-state, nine-day march in their latest effort to improve conditions
at the fields and farms serving major food companies. The Coalition of
Immokalee Workers' "Now is the Time" march focused on urging the food
giants Publix and Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program, which ensures
improved wages and working conditions for farmworkers in the companies'
supply chains. The march set off from Florida, reaching as far north as
Ohio before returning home for an overnight vigil on Saturday outside a
Publix store in the town of Lakeland.

 

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