- Target:
- Fred DeLuca
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- graphics.latimes.com
A recent LA Times investigation has revealed horrible working conditions at Agricola San Emilio, a large Mexican farm that supplies tomatoes to Subway.
Workers are paid as little as $8 day, but they won’t see the money for months, as the farm illegally withholds workers’ wages until the end of the picking season. Living in cinder block buildings with concrete-floors and no furniture, the workers are surrounded by barbed-wire fences to keep them from leaving without settling up at the company store.
Food is minimal, unless the workers supplement from the overpriced store. Run like a prison, one farmworker put it clearly “We arrive here fat and leave skinny.”
This inhumane worker treatment is against Subway’s vendor code of conduct, so tell Subway to demand better treatment for their farm workers!
A recent LA Times investigation has revealed horrible working conditions at Agricola San Emilio, a large Mexican farm that supplies tomatoes to Subway.
Workers are paid as little as $8 day, but they won’t see the money for months, as the farm illegally withholds workers’ wages until the end of the picking season. Living in cinder block buildings with concrete-floors and no furniture, the workers are surrounded by barbed-wire fences to keep them from leaving without settling up at the company store.
Food is minimal, unless the workers supplement from the overpriced store. Run like a prison, one farmworker put it clearly “We arrive here fat and leave skinny.”
This inhumane worker treatment is against Subway’s vendor code of conduct, so tell Subway to demand better treatment for their farm workers.
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The Tell Subway Protect Your Farm Workers petition to Fred DeLuca was written by atiq ahmed rabbani and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.