Join us on March 22 at 12 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church for to learn more about what the religious community can do to call on McDonalds to put an end to human rights abuses and sub-poverty wages in their tomato-picking supply chain. In 2005, The Coalition for Immokallee workers celebrated a huge victory. After a four year boycott, the group finally won an agreement with Taco Bell. The fast food giant committed to providing tomato pickers in their supply chain with better wages and working conditions. Now, the coalition is focused on winning similar concessions from McDonalds.

The religious community played a key role in the Taco Bell boycott. Join us on March 22 at 12 p.m. for lunch to learn more about what the religious community can do in this campaign.  Representatives from Immokallee and the Twin Cities solidarity committee will be on hand.

WIN is only one of many organizations in the religious community supporting this campaign. The National Council of Churches, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and many other religious and human rights leaders have called on McDonald’s to partner with farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve sub-poverty wages and abuses in the fields of Florida. 

Here’s what you and your congregation can do to take action to support farmworkers:

-          Collect signatures on postcards to send to McDonald’s headquarters.

-          Host a presentation about conditions that farmworkers face in the fields today.

-          Join the Twin Cities Delegation in the March for Farmworker Justice in Chicago, IL with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) on April 13-14, 2007.

If you are interested in joining us for lunch or participating in any of these actions, contact matt@workersinterfaith.org or call 612-332-2055

Want to learn more? Click here to visit the CIW website and here for the Alliance for Fair Food, which WIN recently has endorsed, website