date:Feb 05, 2013
involved. Publix spokesman DeWayne Stephens called the dispute a labor issue between the farm workers and the farm owners.
It is a labor issue and Publix does not get involved with supplier partners' labor issues, he said.
Several major companies, including McDonalds and Burger King, participate in the Coalition's Fair Food program. If Publix joins, protesters say, that would put pressure on other supermarket chains to join.
In about one month, Coalition members plan to march about 150 miles