"The exploitation of laborers is a disease that remains rampant throughout the world, says Lucas Benitez, a co-founder of the Florida-based labor and human rights organization the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
To combat these abuses of human rights — including physical and sexual assault, child labor and wage theft — a proper vaccine is needed, Benitez said in the Wallenberg Lecture that coincided with him receiving the University of Michigan’s 2023 Wallenberg Medal.
Benitez, who also is a key organizational leader and member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program worker education team, spoke to a crowded Rackham Auditorium on Oct. 10."
Read the full story in the University Record.
Also, please see this article at WGCU, the NPR/PBS affiliate in Southwest Florida.
