Coming to a 'Farmer Jack' store near you!
Farm workers on the picket line chanted, "Don't spend a
nickel on a Mt. Olive pickle." Members of the Farm Labor
Organizing Committee and their Auto Workers supporters told the
store manager Detroit workers won't shop where anti-worker
products are sold.
North Carolina farm workers who harvest the cucumbers for
Mt. Olive Pickles are paid $2.40 per hundred pounds while
unionized workers in Michigan and Ohio earn $6.10 per hundred
pounds. Pesticides, housing, sanitation, child care and
education are all critical issues for the Mt. Olive
workers.
More information on the Mt. Olive boycott and how you can
help is available at www.floc.com. In Michigan, join the
rotating Friday noon-hour informational picket lines at Farmer
Jack.
Health insurance beef
Commuters on busy Gratiot Avenue and Vernor can't miss the
striking Chicago Beef workers' picket line. Food and Commercial
Workers Local 876 members walked off their jobs Aug. 3 over
rising co-pays on their health insurance.
The Michigan Citizen reported that Rick Blocker, executive
to the president of Local 876, said, "A lot of companies are
giving raises which are then offset by the cost of health
insurance so at the end of the contract you're actually losing
money instead of gaining."
--Cheryl LaBash
Reprinted from the Aug. 26, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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