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Bishops applaud accord between Florida farmworkers and Burger King

Following a week at the negotiating table with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Burger King officials agreed May 23 to pay an additional penny per pound to the Florida farmworkers who harvest their tomatoes. See full story.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

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