WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26.
PROGRAM # 7595 12:00 PM PT
Berries Turn Sour.
Organized berry workers in Washington state are joining forces with farm laborers in Mexico’s San Quintín Valley in their common demand for higher wages, union contracts and negotiation meetings. Today, those independent unions are organizing boycott committees against Driscoll’s, the transnational corporation that buys berries from growers in the areas under labor conflict.
Guests: Ramon Torres, President, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, Bellingham, WA; Rosalinda Guillén, Executive Director, Community to Community, Bellingham, WA, www.foodjustice.org; Gloria Gracida-Martínez, Vocera, Alianza de Organizaciones Nacional, Estatal y Municipal, San Quintín, MX ; Héctor Luján, Executive Director, BerryMex, Oxnard, CA.
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