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UFW 'E-Pressure': Tell Vons/Safeway--Keep Boycotting Pictsweet
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Dec 28, 2001 12:27 PST
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News from the Farm Worker Movement (www.ufw.org):
http://www.ufw.org/ufw/e-mail.htm
Tell Vons/Safeway: keep boycotting Picksweet mushrooms
For 14 years, workers at Picksweet Mushroom Farms in Ventura County
north of Los Angeles have tried to negotiate a United Farm Workers
contract. Picksweet has ignored its workers desires and violated a
host of state labor laws.
* A detailed nine-count complaint issued on June 26, 2001 by prosecutors
with California's Agricultural Labor Relations Board cited Picksweet for
bad faith bargaining and illegally conspiring to get rid of the union.
* Pictsweet was recently fined $7,475 by the Oregon Occupational
Safety and Health Division for safety violations at its Salem plant.
One of them caused Enrique Diaz Lupian, 46, to lose his right hand in
an accident. Other workers in both Oregon and California have been
disciplined or fired for supporting unions.
* On Sept. 4, 2001, the state of California filed another complaint
against Picksweet for firing Ventura, Calif. mushroom worker Fidel
Andrade because he exercised his right to organize and support the
UFW.
Conditions at Picksweet in Ventura are cruel and dangerous. Mushroom
workers labor in dark and damp rooms. Floors are slippery. They only
have the lights on their helmets to guide them. Many suffer vision
problems.
Such conduct is why workers have called for a boycott of Picksweet
mushrooms. Picksweet has lost many major customers, including Vons and
Safeway supermarkets, and Pizza Hut restaurants.
Picksweet workers ask consumers to help them ensure Vons and Safeway
continue to keep Picksweet mushrooms off their shelves until a union
contract with the Ventura, Calif. plant is signed.
Email Vons and Safeway today!
***Go to
http://www.ufw.org/ufw/e-mail.htm
and send your e-mail today!
For more information on the Farm Worker Movement visit our web site at
http://www.ufw.org and/or subscribe to the Farm Worker Movement list
serve by sending an e-mail to UFW-sub-@topica.com.
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