what the fuck!
"November 20th was a momentous day in Immokalee.
On November 20th, according to court documents filed last week, three
tomato pickers made their way to the Collier County Sheriff's office
after having escaped two days earlier through the ventilation hatch of
a box truck where they had been held against their will by their
employer. The three men told police of an Immokalee-based tomato
harvesting slavery ring in which workers "were beaten and forced to
work exclusively for the Navarrete family," according to an article
entitled, "Family accused of enslaving workers at Immokalee camp" in
the Naples Daily News (12/7/07).
On that same day, November 20th, Andre Raghu, global managing director
with the supply chain monitoring group "Intertek," told the readers of
the Miami Herald that his company's audits of Florida tomato operations
"have found no slave labor." Mr. Raghu was quoted in the Herald as
part of a high-profile press junket organized by Burger King and their
new partners in public relations, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange
(FTGE), to counter CIW claims of a human rights crisis in Florida's
tomato fields.
And so, on November 20th, while well-paid executives assured the world
that all is well in the Florida's fields, workers in Immokalee were
recounting to Sheriff's deputies how they had to break out of a locked
U-Haul truck to escape from their employers..."
Read more here: http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html
On November 20th, according to court documents filed last week, three
tomato pickers made their way to the Collier County Sheriff's office
after having escaped two days earlier through the ventilation hatch of
a box truck where they had been held against their will by their
employer. The three men told police of an Immokalee-based tomato
harvesting slavery ring in which workers "were beaten and forced to
work exclusively for the Navarrete family," according to an article
entitled, "Family accused of enslaving workers at Immokalee camp" in
the Naples Daily News (12/7/07).
On that same day, November 20th, Andre Raghu, global managing director
with the supply chain monitoring group "Intertek," told the readers of
the Miami Herald that his company's audits of Florida tomato operations
"have found no slave labor." Mr. Raghu was quoted in the Herald as
part of a high-profile press junket organized by Burger King and their
new partners in public relations, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange
(FTGE), to counter CIW claims of a human rights crisis in Florida's
tomato fields.
And so, on November 20th, while well-paid executives assured the world
that all is well in the Florida's fields, workers in Immokalee were
recounting to Sheriff's deputies how they had to break out of a locked
U-Haul truck to escape from their employers..."
Read more here: http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html