No Burrito Bowl For You! Protestors at Chipotle on The Drag

Courtesy Austinist  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 4:34pm

Robert F.W.

Whitlock/flickr If you walked down the drag yesterday hoping to grab a barbacoa burrito at Chipotle, you may have been interrupted by a throng protesting the chain's alleged poor payment of Florida tomato pickers.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), from Immokalee, Florida, is on a small "Chipocrasy" tour, on its way to the company's home base in Denver.

The CIW's complaint is that workers are paid 40 or 50 cents per 32 lb. bucket of...


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