The petition delivery comes shortly after U.S. Senate hearings on the matter - during which lawmakers promised to investigate the wages and working conditions of south Florida’s tomato pickers.
Burger King officials maintain tomato pickers in Florida are treated well and paid more than 12-dollars an hour on average. The company has refused to sign a deal with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to pay a penny more per pound for the tomatoes it buys.
Coalition spokeswoman - Julia Perkins – says they’ve focused on companies like Burger King because of its enormous buying power.
