Farmworkers and Students Take on Burger King

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Dec 14, 2007
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Student activists, leveraging their power as the target audience of Burger King, threatening a boycott as they have done elsewhere in similar situations, join forces with farmworkers to demand a one penny (!) per pound increase in wages. Read the article in The Nation.

–Suzanne Verderber

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