PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) RESPONSE TO YUM BRANDS OFFER

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Office of the General Assembly

THE REV. DR. CLIFTON KIRKPATRICK, STATED CLERK

“After three years of a consumer boycott, Taco Bell and its parent company Yum Brands have acknowledged that farm workers are at the heart of their operation and that farm workers’ wages and working conditions must change. But the company’s recent offer is not a concrete offer to assure those who pick tomatoes for Yum’s suppliers any increase at all in the current unjust and inadequate wages they receive, and is clearly not enough. Our sisters and brothers who pick tomatoes continue to suffer. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) urges Yum Brands to take concrete steps now in cooperation with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to bring real change to the way Yum does business and to the egregious conditions under which farm workers continue to labor.”

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has approximately 2.5 million members, 11,200 congregations and 21,000 ordained ministers. Presbyterians trace their history to the 16th century and the Protestant Reformation

For more information on the Presbyterian Church and its support for the Taco Bell Boycott visit

www.pcusa.org/boycott