Trader Joe’s Latest Food Chain to Sign Pact to Protect Tomato Pickers
Sarah Seltzer writes for Alternet and other online publications and sends us this.
Trader Joe’s, the popular food chain, which caters to the socially conscious set, had been falling short of its healthful and “progressive” image recently—by refusing to sign onto an agreement to protect tomato pickers. But after a tireless campaign by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the company has agreed to sign on, and planned protests in front of a Trader Joe’s were canceled.
