Last week the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based organization that represents immigrant farm workers in Florida, and their student partners, the Student Farmworker Alliance (SFA), presented Burger King with a petition asking for a penny per pound pay raise for Florida tomato pickers. The CIW and SFA collected over 80,000 signatures from 50 states and 43 countries urging BK to join other fast-food restaurants such as Taco Bell and McDonalds in boosting the wages of Florida’s tomato pickers. The same day activists delivered the petitions, it was discovered that Burger King Vice President Stephen Grover had used his daughter’s email address to spread malevolent misinformation about the CIW.  Since then, further evidence has emerged that Burger King officials posed as students in attempts to infiltrate the SFA.

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