Chipotle: Stop Screwing Labor!

If you don't like exploited labor to grow tomatoes for your burritos, you should check out the following action put on by the Denver Fair Food Committee:


Protest at Chipotle Shareholders Meeting
for Farmworker Justice

Join us, bright and early, outside Chipotle Mexican Grill's annual
shareholders Meeting to demand that it ensure fair wages and human
rights for the workers who pick tomatoes that fill its tacos and
burritos!

WHEN: Wednesday, May 21
7:30 AM to 8:15 AM

WHERE: Oxford Hotel
1600 17th St
Wazee St. and 17th
Downtown Denver

Coffee and food will be provided for participants.

BACKGROUND: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers--a Florida-based
organization of Latino, Haitian, and Mayan farmworkers--has called on
Chipotle Mexican Grill to ensure fair wages and human rights for the
workers who pick tomatoes that fill its tacos and burritos.

Tomato pickers in Florida earn sub-poverty wages, have no right to
form unions or to benefits of any kind, and have not received a
significant raise in nearly 30 years. In the most extreme cases,
workers are held in modern-day slavery and forced to work against
their will. Chipotle's demand for the cheapest tomatoes, without
regard for the human cost to workers, has contributed to the sweatshop
conditions in the fields.
Chipotle, however, has refused to even meet with the CIW and has even
claimed to have switched tomato suppliers in an effort to avoid
improving conditions for farmworkers.

Chipotle claims to serve ?food with integrity,? using
sustainably-raised ingredients and free-range meat. Yet, it refuses
to take simple steps to ensure that its tomatoes are not picked by
exploited workers.

Tell Chipotle that it cannot continue sidestepping the human rights -
that ?food with integrity? must in ?work with dignity? for the those
who harvest its tomatoes.

Denver Fair Food Committee
For more information: robert @ sfalliance.org, 505-980-4220