(From “News Service of Florida” 9-25-09) Advocates for Florida tomato workers on Friday added the world’s largest contract food provider to the list of companies willing to spend more to improve workers’ wages. Meeting with U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis in Washington, D.C., the Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced an agreement with Compass Group in which the company would pay workers a penny a pound more for the tomatoes they harvest. Compass, a global food service provider with North American sales of more than $9 billion, joins McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell parent Yum! Brands in agreeing to pay the higher price that if passed on to workers would raise annual pay by more than 60 percent from the $10,000 they now earn on average.
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