Team Sergeant
06-17-2017, 12:58
I don't buy it cause it's so left-wing, but this is very satisfying, watching SJW's fight with SJW's......... just follow the money...... :munchin
Come one you Vermont farm workers, you're hurting the Corporate ice cream wallets! Those VP's need their millions a year to, to, to pay the gas bill for their yachts'.
SCORES OF FARM WORKERS, ACTIVISTS MARCH ON BEN & JERRY'S
BY WILSON RING
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Protesters said Ben & Jerry's agreed two years ago to participate in the so-called Milk with Dignity program, but the company and worker representatives have yet to reach an agreement.
"We can't wait any more. We are going to pressure them and see what happens," said Victor Diaz, a Mexican immigrant now working on a farm in Vergennes.
Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood said before Saturday's march from the Statehouse to the Waterbury factory that the company was eager to reach an agreement and negotiations were underway.
"We are a values-led business. We frame ourselves as an aspiring social justice company," said Greenwood. "We try to do good with everything we can with our business. Dairy has definitely been one of those issues we have done a ton of work on for decades."
Ben & Jerry's touts its social activism as much as its quirky ice-cream flavors such as Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Phish Food. Many of its raw materials, like sugar, cocoa, vanilla, bananas and coffee come from producers across the world that subscribe to the Fairtrade program, which promotes higher prices and better working conditions for farmers.
About 85 percent of the milk Ben & Jerry's uses in its ice cream made in North America comes from about 80 Vermont dairy farms. Its Caring Dairy program promotes sustainable farming by offering farmers cash incentives for keeping up with best management practices.
The Milk with Dignity program was developed in 2014 by farm workers and the Vermont group Migrant Justice to ensure that farms provide them fair wages and working conditions and decent housing. In 2015, Ben & Jerry's agreed to join the program. Since then, the two sides have been negotiating over the details.
"We've been negotiating in good faith," said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice. "It's an unacceptable delay."
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Come one you Vermont farm workers, you're hurting the Corporate ice cream wallets! Those VP's need their millions a year to, to, to pay the gas bill for their yachts'.
SCORES OF FARM WORKERS, ACTIVISTS MARCH ON BEN & JERRY'S
BY WILSON RING
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Protesters said Ben & Jerry's agreed two years ago to participate in the so-called Milk with Dignity program, but the company and worker representatives have yet to reach an agreement.
"We can't wait any more. We are going to pressure them and see what happens," said Victor Diaz, a Mexican immigrant now working on a farm in Vergennes.
Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood said before Saturday's march from the Statehouse to the Waterbury factory that the company was eager to reach an agreement and negotiations were underway.
"We are a values-led business. We frame ourselves as an aspiring social justice company," said Greenwood. "We try to do good with everything we can with our business. Dairy has definitely been one of those issues we have done a ton of work on for decades."
Ben & Jerry's touts its social activism as much as its quirky ice-cream flavors such as Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey and Phish Food. Many of its raw materials, like sugar, cocoa, vanilla, bananas and coffee come from producers across the world that subscribe to the Fairtrade program, which promotes higher prices and better working conditions for farmers.
About 85 percent of the milk Ben & Jerry's uses in its ice cream made in North America comes from about 80 Vermont dairy farms. Its Caring Dairy program promotes sustainable farming by offering farmers cash incentives for keeping up with best management practices.
The Milk with Dignity program was developed in 2014 by farm workers and the Vermont group Migrant Justice to ensure that farms provide them fair wages and working conditions and decent housing. In 2015, Ben & Jerry's agreed to join the program. Since then, the two sides have been negotiating over the details.
"We've been negotiating in good faith," said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice. "It's an unacceptable delay."
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MILK_WITH_DIGNITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-17-13-57-16