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Related: About this forumCall goes out for boycott of Driscoll
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http://peoplesworld.org/call-goes-out-for-boycott-of-driscoll/
Yet another boycott of Driscoll's products is being called for, by Mexican farm workers this time, echoing a similar call from Washington state workers, as all decry pay and conditions in the fields of Driscoll's suppliers.
A work stoppage began on March 17 in the San Quintín Valley, near Ensenada in the Mexican state of Baja California, as workers, promptly represented by Rúben Núñez from the Oaxaca sección 22 of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, called for a minimum daily wage of 300 pesos (at about $.067 USD/peso that comes to almost $20/day).
Berrymex, one of the largest growers in the area, employing as many as 31,000 workers, is one of the many producers that supplies Driscoll's with berries. In response to the strike, Berrymex representatives agreed to increase pay for workers by 15 percent, though none have said how much workers would actually be paid under the new scale, instead speaking in terms of percentages.
Berrymex, though, is not the only Driscoll's supplier whose workers are calling for a boycott. Sakura Farms workers in Burlington, Washington, are also calling for a boycott of Driscoll's products. Ironically, many of the Washington workers are also from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, and many have family members also participating in the strikes in San Quintín. An Oregon-based NGO, the Fair World Project, has even gone so far as to collect some 10,000 signatures from concerned consumers to present to Driscoll's, as well as other distributors of the Sakura Farms products.
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Call goes out for boycott of Driscoll (Original Post)
Starry Messenger
May 2015
OP
Is this allowed under NAFTA...Inquiring minds want to know. Will TPP make it all better?
libdem4life
May 2015
#2
elleng
(136,097 posts)1. BEEN boycotting them,
even tho it's hard to find OTHER berries.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)2. Is this allowed under NAFTA...Inquiring minds want to know. Will TPP make it all better?
johnp3907
(3,890 posts)3. Even the foodservice company I work for is boycotting them.
The company we buy produce from has to sell us berries from other suppliers.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)4. That's excellent!
Driscoll is all they have in the supermarket here. I'll have to start hitting the farmers markets.
vive la commune
(94 posts)5. I love blueberries
But will totally pass on them as long as the boycott's on.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)6. Same here.
I love berries. I guess it's a good summer to explore other fruits!