DARIGOLD IS STILL NOT LISTENING! Sign the petition now! On Monday, close to 200 people gathered in front of Darigold’s headquarters in Seattle. Labor leaders, including the Secretary-Treasurer of the WA State Labor Federation and Michael Beranbaum of the Joint Council of Teamsters, who represents Darigold employees at their processing plants, joined the call for justice for Ruby Ridge workers. That’s right, Darigold processing plant workers have a union; the workers who milk the cows don’t. These voices joined those of national religious leaders who called on Darigold in August to take action when they marched to the company’s Portland, OR location. Yet Darigold remains silent. Instead of coming out to talk, they greeted folks with security guards. Workers are disappointed with Darigold. As former Ruby Ridge employee Jose Zamora said: One gets there with the hope that they will speak to us and what we see is a bunch of security guards all over the place like if we were to do harm to them. They treat us like criminals. Still, this event and all the support they received gave them hope for a better tomorrow. Worker Rafael Munoz told us:It was a grand event. A lot of people from different groups; from religious groups and from different unions, there were also student groups. They all went so that Darigold would hear us. No-one from Darigold came out to greet us. By not showing their face they are showing us that they support the mistreatment of workers. We need the support now of the consumer so that our struggle will become even bigger. The more time that passes, the bigger this will become. Let's make this bigger. We've launched a petition drive. Please add your name today. We’ll present the signatures to Darigold shortly before Thanksgiving. http://action.ufw.org/darigoldpetition After you take action please share this campaign with your friends and family. You can send them an e-mail and/or post this campaign on your Facebook and/or Twitter page by clicking here or going to http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9dcc/145687a8/46b6e028/2b46b80f/2758691575/VEsHBA/ Keep up with the Ruby Ridge campaign at: www.ufw.org/rubyridge. Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news. Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Cause, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace,and Care2 pages. Please link to us and become our "Friend" and follow us on Twitter too! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve. Please add us to your safelist: Please add [email protected] to your address book so that our messages don’t get trapped in your spam filter. If you have questions about how to do this, drop us an e-mail. Privacy Policy This email was sent to [email protected]. United Farm Workers, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
