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Taco Bell, the Yum Brands Inc. YUM, -0.02% Mexican fast-food chain, said Friday that it plans to add 100,000 new jobs in the U.S. by 2022 and grow to 9,000 locations nationwide.

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on America-Islamic Relations is calling for an investigation into a complaint made against the Long John Silver's restaurant in Mall of America. CAIR-MN wants the restaurants parent company, Yum! Brands, to look into claims that religious literature was distributed with a children's meal. According to CAIR-MN, a Muslim family visited the restaurant in November and ordered a children's meal for their three-year-old son. The toy that came with the meal was a notepad that featured a quote from the Bible. The family requested an alternative toy, but said only notepads with Bible versus were...

Farmworker advocates on Tuesday ended a three-year boycott of Taco Bell after the fast-food giant agreed to improve working conditions and require suppliers to raise wages.....Meeting in Louisville, Ky., company officials announced they would require suppliers to increase the wages paid to tomato pickers by a penny a pound while pledging to help farmworker advocates gain similar concessions from others in the fast-food industry.

Support of the CIW's (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) Demands for a Living Wage and Decent Working C Archive Struggles Rural America Author: Florida District First published 04/28/2001 00:00 by the Communist Party, USA < Proposed resolution submitted by the Florida District to the 27th National Convention of the Communist Party USA WHEREAS: Farm workers in the Florida's tomato-picking industry have been struggling since 1995 for a decent living wage; WHEREAS: More than half these workers and their children live below the poverty level, on an average income of $7,500.00 annually; WHEREAS: Florida tomato pickers are paid .40 to .45 cents...