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supermarket leads way on penny-a-pound deal

A US supermarket chain has broken new ground by signing an agreement with a workers’ organization to improve wages for Florida’s tomato pickers.

Texas-based Whole Foods Market, which has a $6.6billion (£3.76bn) turnover and runs 270 organic food stores in the US, Canada and the UK, has signed the deal with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based body whose 2500 members are largely Hispanic, Haitian, Guatemalan and Mayan Indian immigrants in low-paid jobs.

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