Reply #4: An increase of ONE PENNY a pound...and that's ALL!

[Raksha]

Re Subway also joins other fast-food industry leaders and the CIW in calling on the Florida tomato industry to institute an industry-wide penny per pound surcharge to increase wages for all Florida tomato harvesters. That means the workers will get 72 cents to 77 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they pick, up from 40 cents to 45 cents.

And how LONG has Subway been fighting this pathetically small increase? Does anyone know? It seems to me I've been reading about this particular conflict for months, if not years. It wasn't that Subway begrudged them the penny a pound increase...that wasn't the point. It was that they didn't want to empower the union, which of course is precisely why the union had to keep fighting until they won.