Eight hundred marchers, nine miles, and seven hours for one penny.
At 9:30 a.m. Friday, 800 activists, students, artists, farm workers and people of faith gathered across the street from Goldman Sachs, the largest shareholder of Burger King's stocks, to march nine miles through the streets of Miami. They were marching to the corporate headquarters of Burger King to demand the corporation pay one penny more per pound of tomatoes directly to the farm workers who pick them.
The protesters, representative of all ages, races and social classes, came to Miami from throughout the United States to deliver one message: "Burger King Exploits Farmworkers."
Burger King refused a proposal in February by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to pay the extra penny stating that the corporation does not have direct contact with the farm workers, that they are not Burger King employees, and therefore not the responsibility of the corporation.
