date:Jan 20, 2014
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Florida is the second-largest tomato-growing state in the country after California, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, producing more than $600 million worth.
Some 33,000 tomato pickers work in Florida, earning salaries estimated between $10,000 and $13,000 a year, according to worker groups.
The coalition was formed in the early 1990s in Immokalee, a city in southwestern Florida at the heart of the state's tomato industry. Angry over pay and working conditions, t