Coalition of Immokalee Workers protests at "Traitor Joe's"
On August 3, the Coalition of Immokalee workers, supported by School of the Americas watch,plus a few other supporters turned up outside a Trader Joe's in DC. They are demanding that Trader Joes sign the same contract Burger King and so many others have signed to pay just one penny per pound more for tomatoes.
Native American workers are being exploited by the tomato industry, paid a piece rate well below a minumum wage just for tomatoes that are a penny per pound cheaper than the ones purchased by those who have signed a contract with the CIW.
Do you really want to shop somewhere that exploits Native American workers just to save one penny on a pound of tomatoes?
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Added: Aug-4-2011 Occurred On: Aug-3-2011
By: dcdirectactionnews
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Tags: Trader Joe's, Traitor Joe's, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, School of the Americas Watch
Location: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States (load item map)
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By: dcdirectactionnews
In: Other News
Tags: Trader Joe's, Traitor Joe's, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, School of the Americas Watch
Location: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States (load item map)
Marked as: approved
Views: 1568 | Comments: 54 | Votes: 0 | Favorites: 0 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 2
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"Do you really want to shop somewhere that exploits Native American workers just to save one penny on a pound of tomatoes?"
No, but I do rather enjoy the idea that my walking into their store & coming out with a bunch of tomatos will irk a bunch of protesters to no end...
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByTrench000 (530.06) 
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@Trench000 If I had an attitude like that, I'd worry about being on the receiving end of one of the rotten tomatoes from the dumpster out back!
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bydcdirectactionnews (509.48) 
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@dcdirectactionnews Free country Hippie
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByNot_much_to_say (50.08) 
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@dcdirectactionnews So is this an admission Liberals are really a violent group?
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bysafetychuck2 (4081.12) 
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I don't see native Americans. I see a bunch of perpetually adolescent, whiny, jobless, guilty white liberals with trendy hipster beards and nothing better to do.
Posted Aug-4-2011 Byleadfoot88 (257.82) leadfoot88 View Channel Send Message
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@leadfoot88 My thoughts exactly.
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bynza123 (91.44) nza123 View Channel Send Message
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@leadfoot88 Clearly you missed the several native people present in the protest, and surely you do not expect a movement of people making sub-minumum wage to send more than a few representatives to DC? They were there, and they appreciate national support from groups like SOA Watch and unions.
If you were to go and pick these tomatoes yourself, you would not see very many white yuppies around!
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@dcdirectactionnews Great idea...let's all grow our own tomatoes. Problem solved.
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bysafetychuck2 (4081.12) 
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@leadfoot88
Seems a penny a pound is alot. The link shows that it is the difference between $50 dollars a day and $80.
http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
We all have the right to ask for higher wages.
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByJukamatuka (586.98) 
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@nza123
Seems a penny a pound is alot. The link shows that it is the difference between $50 dollars a day and $80.
http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
We all have the right to ask for better wages.
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByJukamatuka (586.98) 
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@RustyButter
I'll STFU then
lol
Cheers!
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bymytwocents (2365.86) 
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cOMMENT YOUR GONNA SHOP AT TRADER JOES AND HE'LL ban YER COMMENT !
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByAiredale (2606.56) 
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@Airedale Yep, he/she is banning.
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bypneal (596.72) pneal View Channel Send Message
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Looks more like white liberals have a problem with it than Native Americans...
Posted Aug-4-2011 BySnerple (433.82) Snerple View Channel Send Message
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@nurdmyth The whole POINT here is to NOT be willing to work for one penny less, thus forcing the boss to pay one penny more. This is part of how that is done!
Posted Aug-6-2011 Bydcdirectactionnews (509.48) 
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these idiots want to make a difference? pay the 1 penny per pound out of their own pockets... its just a penny.
Posted Aug-4-2011 Bywhiteowlonfire (102.08) 
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@whiteowlonfire
The link shows that it is the difference between $50 dollars a day and $80.
http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByJukamatuka (586.98) 
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So going to the DC trader joes tomorrow for ketchup
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByCostaK (49.40) 
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support local business
Posted Aug-4-2011 Byjhnm156 (156.86) jhnm156 View Channel Send Message
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Am I correct in assuming that Native American sovereignty is what keeps them from recognizing a federal minimum wage?
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByChumCannon (1450.72) 
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@ChumCannon Are you saying you don't like Native Americans, or think Wal-Mart should be able to pay $50 cents an hour? Which is it?
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@dcdirectactionnews is that your final answer?
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByChumCannon (1450.72) 
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@Not_much_to_say
Seems a penny a pound is alot. The link shows that it is the difference between $50 dollars a day and $80.
http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByJukamatuka (586.98) 
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@ChumCannon
Seems a penny a pound is alot. The link shows that it is the difference between $50 dollars a day and $80.
http://zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/944-trader-joes-says-no-to-increase-for-florida-tomato-farmworkers
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByJukamatuka (586.98) 
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These are the people who make everything more expensive. Thanks, guys. People like Rockefeller and Carnegie made everything less expensive.
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByDing_Jianwen (200.38) 
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@Ding_Jianwen You never heard of Standard Oil did you? Idiot.
Posted Aug-5-2011 Bydorbie (2526.90) dorbie View Channel Send Message
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@dorbie Until Standard Oil came along, people used whale oil to light their houses and wood or coal to heat. Rockefeller did everyone a favor by making oil cheap enough to use for these purposes. Sorry to disturb your prejudices.
Posted Aug-5-2011 ByDing_Jianwen (200.38) 
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@Ding_Jianwen What saved the whales was early, small-scale use of petroleum in lamps to replace whale oil. Standard Oil would have just as quicly monopolized whale oil as petroleum oil, they were NOT the solution!
Posted Aug-6-2011 Bydcdirectactionnews (509.48) 
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@dcdirectactionnews The rest of the story is that Edison came along and proved that Rockefeller had no monopoly. That's how the real world works.
Posted Aug-6-2011 ByDing_Jianwen (200.38) 
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@Ding_Jianwen "Free markets" where the industrial bosses own the government and the few control the many are to freedom as firefighting is to fire. The "Robber Barons" should have been hanged and their factories expropriated by the workers who built and operated them!
Posted Aug-10-2011 Bydcdirectactionnews (509.48) 
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everyone's got a fucking cause
Posted Aug-4-2011 By_Byron_ (928.70) 
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Price of tomatoes...right up there with the famine in Somalia and the continuing crisis in Haiti.
Posted Aug-4-2011 ByBIES (331.66) 
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@BIES
Sure, there are many issues in this world. Does not one have the right to ask for better wages? The price of tomatoes spike from time to time. In fact it just happen.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/freezing-florida-weather-sends-prices-tomatoes-produce-higher/story?id=9930975
A penny a pound is the difference between 50$ a day and 80$.
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