Lucas Benítez and the Fair Food Plan

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
PROGRAM #10884 11:00 PM PT

Lucas Benítez and the Fair Food Plan. 

More than twenty years ago, farmworker Lucas Benítez and a group of organizers in Florida founded a movement that forced Taco Bell, McDonald’s, and other global fast-food giants into signing Fair Food Agreements. The goal: to fight modern-day slavery and labor abuse among the country’s lowest-paid workers. Since then, this worker-driven program has earned international recognition as a model of corporate accountability. In this edition of our special series “Thirty Years, Thirty Voices,” Benítez reflects on the milestones of the Fair Food movement and the challenges it faces today. The program also features archival conversations aired and recorded before the signing of the first historic agreement.

Guest: Lucas Benítez, Co-founder and Co-Coordinator, Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), Immokalee, FL.

Photo: hihaivo/Flickr

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