In this oral history interview, Licolli tells Facing South about the experiences that led her to start Venceremos, which she co-founded with a group of 16 women poultry workers in 2019. After meeting with groups like Florida’s Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which successfully organized tomato pickers to push companies at the top of the fast-food and grocery store supply chains to implement a code of conduct to protect the farmworkers at the bottom, they formed Venceremos to pursue a similar worker-driven social responsibility model at poultry processing companies like Tyson and George’s.
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