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"One minute she was flipping Whopper patties, the next she was sent out the back door into a hot night in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The fast food monarch locked the door behind her and she was newly unemployed and facing financial desperation.

Twenty-six other workers were likewise dispensed without just cause or compensation last year by Burger King and a few of its fast food corporate siblings – all owned in Honduras by INTUR. The company was reportedly reacting to rumors the workers were organizing to resist measures including unpaid overtime and having to pay for their uniforms out of already scant earnings."
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