USAS' Ethical Contracting Campaign seeks to expand the leverage that students have obtained over licensing to other areas in which educational institutions do business, such as purchasing, contracting, and investing. As such, USAS members have led successful campaigns to kick Coca-Cola off college campuses in response to their violent union busting tactics in colombia, and have carried out campaigns to have their educational institutions cut their contracts with Mt. Olive Pickles and Taco Bell due to the horrific exploitation of their agricultural workers. The Mt. Olive Pickle boycott was successful in helping to foster the creation of the first guest farm worker union in United States' history. The Taco Bell boycott was victorious in generating an historic agreement between Yum Brands (the largest restaurant company in the world to which Taco Bell is a subsidiary) and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (a Farmworker organization in Florida) through which the farmworkers involved received their first wage increase since 1979 and a commitment to improved conditions in the fields.

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