Labor Updates (6/18/07)

Get new 2007 DC Labor Filmfest stickers and all the latest local labor news at TONIGHT’s Metro Council Delegate's meeting at 6:30P at the AFL-CIO…Burger King is refusing to negotiate with farm workers to improve wages and conditions, “even though it recently announced an initiative to improve the living conditions of farm animals in its supply chain,” reports James Parks of the AFL-CIO Now Blog. “Burger King still refuses to agree to the principles signed onto by Yum! [owner of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other fast food chains] and McDonald’s. Rather than pay tomato workers a decent wage and improve working conditions, Burger King claims it’s not possible to institute those same principles in their supply chain,” Parks reports. Click here to read the full story and take action for farm workers.