Allegations suggest wide spread human rights abuses in farming and that is not at all true. Let there be no question. What we do not understand is why some people keep trying to force the workers into one specific group. They put an organization ahead of the workers. That is not justice.
Farmers respect the workers rights.
Now we ask that everyone else do the same thing. Supermarkets came under pressure beginning last year to support a proposed sweetheart contract between a single union and the entire strawberry industry. In some instances threats of boycotts were made. That pledge excluded workers rights of self-determination and has been rejected in all but a few instances. The pledge has been circulated to supermarkets throughout the United States and Canada as a voluntary alternative to the one that excludes workers rights.