Immokalee Protest

More than 100 protest Immokalee workers' wages on Oct. 24. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a community-based organization of Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants employed in low-wage jobs throughout Florida. To make $50 a day, workers must pick 2 1/2 tons of tomatoes. Because the same field can be harvested up to four times, they may reach that quota during the field's first harvest but only scrounge up enough tomatoes during the fourth harvest to earn $20 for the day's work.