Bringing Food Justice to Trader Joe's

[babsbunny]

Bringing Food Justice to Trader Joe's

http://www.truth-out.org/bringing-food-justice-trader-joes62302

Friday 13 August 2010

by: Laura Flanders | GRITtv | Video Report

Trader Joe's is one of a batch of new corporations wrapping their push for profits in feel-good green slogans and promises of fair labor practices. But at least a few of their products aren't coming from fair labor at all. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization of farmworkers in Florida, have gotten other corporations like Whole Foods and Subway to sign a pledge to buy tomatoes from growers that have good labor practices--after workers in Florida have been rescued from conditions that have been legally deemed slavery.

[EFerrari]

1. For folks who aren't familiar with this story, here is a BookTv segment

by a reporter who wrote about these workers:

John Bowe talked about his book Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy, published by Random House. Mr. Bowe talked about exploitation of workers in the United States today that he said amounted to outright slavery. He talked about companies that not only rely on unpaid or very poorly paid workers to keep their costs low but forcibly restrain them. In his book Mr. Bowe profiles three case studies: farm workers in Florida, East Indian labor abuses in Oklahoma, and forced labor in Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. He also addressed the issues of democracy and globalization. Mr. Bowe responded to questions from members of the audience.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/201704-1

Video & transcript at link, about an hour. :hi:

[Wilms]

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[Odin2005]

3. I've always thought these stores were scams.

[EFerrari]

4. Kick