Immigrant Tomato Pickers in FL and the #MeToo movement

While the #MeToo movement has injected into the national discourse the prevalence of sexual harassment in multiple sectors of society, this article at PRI tells the story of how immigrant women working as tomato pickers in Florida organized to make their workplaces safer long before #MeToo became a hashtag.

“[W]omen pickers at CIW [the Coalition of Immakolee Workers] decided to make stamping out sexual abuse a major part of the campaign they were fighting for with other things such as better wages and work conditions. And this is when things really began to change.”

-JKoh