For most tomato pickers in the US, a bucket brings in 50 cents, a piece rate that has remained virtually unchanged for more than 30 years. Because the rate is set so low, a worker has to pick more than two and a quarter tons of tomatoes per day โ the weight of a young elephant โ to make the minimum wage. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is transforming all of this.
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