Rotten Tomatoes: Truths About Exploited Tomato Field Laborers

Abstract

Many of the workers in the tomato fields in Florida are illegal immigrants that are being abused as human beings. This modern day slavery keeps the prices of tomatoes down at the cost of abusing the workers that pick them. The workers are paid less than $10,000 a year for what is often a fifteen hour work day. Organizations such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, Florida have been working to end the atrocities happening to exploited farmworkers since the practice of employing illegal immigrants began after the end of the Bracero Program in 1964.