March 24, 2015
Mr. Miles Reitner, CEO Driscoll’s 345 Westridge Drive Watsonville, CA 95076-4169
Dear Mr. Reitner:
I am enclosing a letter signed by nearly 10,000 consumers asking Driscoll’s to suspend buying berries from Sakuma Brother’s Berry Farm in Burlington, Washington until farm owners and farmworkers negotiate a fair contact.
As you are undoubtedly aware, farmworkers have been asking for a fair contract covering wages and conditions for several years now. Because of Sakuma Brothers’ owners unwillingness to negotiate a fair contact, workers have called for a boycott of these berries.
Driscoll’s is one of Sakuma Brothers’ largest buyers and you have the ability to insist on a fair contract for farmworkers before you continue to purchase berries from this farm. Given your commitment to community and sustainability, this should be standard practice. The consumers who have signed the attached letter are not only expressing concern and solidarity for farmworkers, they are pledging to boycott all berries sold under the Driscoll’s brand until this is resolved.
If you act now, a fair contract can be in place before the coming harvest season. This will ensure no further interruption of business to Driscoll’s or Sakuma Brothers and more importantly ensure decent jobs for hundreds of farmworkers whose tireless work contributes to the ability of consumers to enjoy fresh berries year round.
On behalf of Fair World Project and thousands of concerned consumers, I look forward to your response by April 15, 2015.
Thank you,
Kerstin Lindgren Campaign Director Fair World Project
Fair World Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote organic and fair trade practices and transparent third-party certification of producers, manufacturers and products, domestically and abroad. Through consumer education and advocacy, FWP supports dedicated fair trade producers and brands, and insists on integrity in use of the term “fair trade” in certification, labeling and marketing. FWP publishes a bi-annual publication entitled For a Better World. For more information, visit: http://www.fairworldproject.org.
March 24, 2015
Driscoll’s 345 Westridge Drive Watsonville, CA 95076-4169
Dear Driscoll's:
We are deeply troubled by your partnership with Sakuma Brother's Farm in Washington State. For several years Familias Unidas por la Justicia has been attempting to negotiate a fair and legally binding contract with Sakuma Brother's that protects their basic rights and provides fair wages. Their situation is so dire they have been forced to call for a boycott and at the same time you have increased purchases from them.
The new growing season is coming up and we are writing to ask that you terminate your purchases from Sakuma Brothers until they in good faith negotiate a legally binding contract and Familias Unidas por la Justicia calls an end to the boycott.
Although we appreciate the opportunity to purchase fresh berries year-round from a trusted brand, we will not continue to support Driscoll's if you continue to support farmworker abuse.
Please see attached for the names and comments of nearly 10,000 concerned consumers.
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms stuart Smith OR Treat your workers with respect. Elin Hayes OR KEN SCHEFTER KS bryn sullivan WA Bethany Boggess TX IVONNE RAMIREZ MD Jana McCormick TX Erika Antillon CA adel kessler IA There has to be a better way!!!!!!This is soooo not acceptible!!! Jane Wilson OR K Scott MD Stephen Stuart NY Patricia Lasek NY Joe Russo NY Lauren Holder OK Robin Gorges VT Pat Berger ME Arthur Schurr NY Linda Prince NM Jeanne Lihotz NJ Jamie Fillmore OR Leah Danger NY Sally Hill OK John McCraw AZ Jesse Ritrovato PA Rick Easton AZ Brian Meadows PA Gale Espinosa AZ Jennifer Hall TN Christine Harris MI jerry Curow NV Kathleen Morris OH Robin Lorentzen ID Rehana Huq NY Aaron Robison UT Jaesa McGee LA Raymond Nuesch DC Myrna Castaline CO Deborah DeSimone NC Barbara Clark DE James Eaton CT Phyllis Swank NC Doug Landau FL Luis Lozano CA All work needs to be respected with a living and fair wage. Chris Drumright TN Vivian Davis NJ Dennis Schaef PA John Marotta NJ Laura Maratin MI
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Amanda Biggs ot Ellen Asprooth NY Charles Phillips MO Nadine Aydt IA Why is it so hard to share the income and be fair to people who work hard and make your income possible. Addie Roney NJ David Gerke NM stephen a martin RI James Rainbolt IA Jerry Mawhorter MI Cathy King IL Jacqueline D Davis WA Michael Madson IA Colleen Curtis WA Dale Patrick IA A. Mervyn & CARSE MI Marilyn Gustavo Gomes ot Jodie St Jean AB What Sakumas are doing is illegal. If Driscoll keeps buying from a known criminal element then Driscoll's should be held responsible as well. BOYCOTT DRISCOLL'S UNTIL THEY SUPPORT FAIR WAGES AND TREATMENT OF SLAVES!! Wim Van ot Caelenbergh John Meeks IL Ian Turner CA Matthew Burton OH Donna L. Meyers PA Fred Snowden OH Dorothy Gunn VA Joyce DuBois MN Bob Steinberg NM Mark Bedard MI T C IL cheryl mulholland CO Daniela Rossi ID richard kite NY Brendan Heberlein WI Julie Squire MO Ronald Groves NM Kim Dion CO Lawrence Bax TX Debra Wilde CO kathryn robertson WV Ben Badger WV Marvin Lewis PA E Matos FL Chris Hargrove TN
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms David Fallow WI Are the berries organic? I only buy Driscoll products when they are certified organic. BL Shinbara NC Kathleen Bentley MD Leah Berman CA Jeanne Parent MN Susan Ruzic BC gregory billeci NY Carol Devoss IL Kevin Vaught TN Ginger Comstock NY Laurie McLaughlin QC Let's help Driscoll's do the right thing. Their berries even show up here in Montreal. Emma Van Pelt MA We don't have food without able and skilled labor. Pay them the fair wage they deserve. Period. Susan Closson OH Rosemary Garcia SD jane tremblay MA Bob Brucker FL L Hutchins WI As a consumer of your wonderful berries, I will follow this closely and will boycott your product to support worker's rights. Sharon Baker CO Cindy MacDonald ON People before profits. You wouldn't have the profits without the people! They deserve fair treatment and your utmost respect. Do the right thing.
Jason Freeman SK I won't be purchasing Driscoll products until Familias Unidas por la Justica states that Sakuma Brothers is negotiating in good faith with the workers. pamela joseph CT Suzan Hill OR Kevin Silvey FL Chris Reilly CT I buy Driscoll's berries, but happy to change if something is not done. Lawrence Davis OH pay up and move on Diana T MN Tirso Moreno FL Margaret Goscilo OH Teresa MASIA ot PERALES ML Schihl WI BOYCOTT SAKUMA BROTHERS!!! Diane Birmingham CO Timothy Mullen ot Richard Boyce OH Marcia Kindlmann CT I have often bought Driscoll berries but now I will think twice. Please work for fair conditions for the farm workers!
Julia DeLacy WI Litsa Katsarou NY Jeannine Schulz AB
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Martha C. Pirrone MD V. B. IN Werner Bergman WA Erin Ham TX Love your neighbor as you love yourself. What greater commandment could there be? Imagine how wonderful this world would be if we all did that. You have the chance to do that now. Please show kindness and love to the beautiful people who work for you by giving them a fair and liveable wage. michael keith PA Richard Martin OR Lisa Horn IL Mark Bartleman CA Pela Tomasello CA Areti Spiropoulos QC I have immediately stopped my raspberries and will pass the word till this is reconciled to the workers satisfaction...! Shame shame! Judy Abreu FL Ceferino Cenizo NY Keith Cutler ND Joel Meza CA Clifford Provost NY Dave Searles WI Lisa Junco IL Meghan Blydenburgh VA Daniel Jaffee OR Richard Morgese CA Bernard Clegg TX Ketty Miller OR Joelle Craft WA Meghan McDonald WI Take a stand for the hard---working laborers who pick produce! Linda Rust MO Laura Carroll MN Elizabeth Enright AZ john deptula NJ Ellen Barron CA My favorite raspberry company is not fair? Boycott. Peter Hoyt OR C. Ring AB Chris Hoke WV I am boycotting Driscoll's products and will encourage others to do so. Giving a fair wage and decent working conditions can and WILL increase production and profit. Sergio Rivera IL Line Ringgaard ot James Angerer CO Linda Plenert WA Gail Molinaro IL I will stop buying Driscoll until I hear this has been resolved. Jim Lockhart OR Luke Brandon BC Oscar Revilla NC Mike Reed IL
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Leslie Spurling TX As a teen, I picked strawberries briefly. Hardest job I've ever had, these folks need to be fairly treated and compensated. cecilia rodriguez FL Donald Cronin MA Brigida Williams CA Bad karma. Heather Sellers FL Dennis Feichtinger MI Brian Clifton NY Andy Cooper MI kathleen aman KY As a teenager I worked on a berry farm on Vashon island so I know how hard the work is. Lee Johnson NM Claudia Joseph NY Pickers deserve a fair wage and decent conditions. Please help them by supporting their demands. Rose Ansbro PA Benita Campbell PA Stop being sociopaths, extracting everything for yourselves. Bob Brucker FL Robert Kraft PA Decent pay for hard work is never a bad investment ! James King TX LISA SHROYER KY Deborah Bertrand LA Eileen Cain MN Sally Barrett---Page CO Pilar Iwankiw NY Linda Greene IN jennifer stringham NY Clay Johnson AZ Robert Hill WI Shannon Garcia CA Douglas McNeill MD Patricia Torres NY Daniel Boyer CO Nicole McCann DC Thomas Windberg TX Jack Stiefel FL Alex Ritz AR Carol Rowland CA MARK GROTZKE IL Nona Weiner CA Branden Simoens IL Stop treating workers like slaves! Driscols has the money to do the right thing! DO IT! Kerry Kuhn IL Nigel Tanner ot Melody Baker AZ Brian Spako Spako NY Lindsey Caudill TX elizabeth robinson MI Nino Monsalve FL Vaughan Greene FL
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David Houseman MI Hollie Epp MD Marjorie Dean Dean MA I will not buy Driscoll berries until this matter is resolved. I will spread the word about this boycott. I want to be updated on this matter. Shame on the Sakuma brothers and Driscoll. Buy local! tina horowitz PA Ricardo Salvador MD Buffy Hake OR katie mcelwee CA Edna Mullen ot mary stock AZ Joy Augenstern MA Barbara Schaible SC James Padier TX As a CEO you take all the money that others make, but what if you were in there position? As a hypocrite, you would want a fair wage ...but you being the CEO you aren't providing it to other people. Lindsey Frazer PA Sandra Winn TX Barry LeBeau RI Ngachi Li ot Patsy Gaglione CO Diana van Eyk BC julia bottom CO Alex Oshiro HI
Robert Murphy ON
Jill Hartman CA
Heidi King IN Evelyn Fraser DC lorenz steininger ot Joseph Guzman NY Nancy Sharp NY Gudrun Dennis FL Christina Krauz MN Darrell House IN Margaret Keiser IA Richard Siegel FL Joel Blumert CT William Sharfman NY Tim Miller CA Jim Petkiewicz CA tracy mclarnon NJ Jesse Marsden RI Tony Coppens ot Diana Portalatin NY Laborers deserve living wages and humane working conditions. --- Please do the right thing. Anthony Jasaitis IL Christine Daum MT Dan Lafrenière QC Karline Rousseau MI
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Adil Khan IL Lilli Ross NY Conrad Plonski MS Nan Willetts MO Candice Martin NY I often buy your berries and am grateful to have organic, nutritious and delicious fruits available for me to enjoy. However, knowing that they are picked by abused workers is disturbing. You have the power to ensure that nothing but good feelings come when eating your products, so please help the workers who are so integral to bringing your berries to market! Richard Delaney NY Enid Breakstone CT John Finazzo MN janna piper OR Wendy Melville ON Dorothy Adala FL Roland Press CA Annamarta Dostourian CA Tina Tine' TN Philip Johnston CA Sally Bagley CA Andrew Scholten AZ Lisa Annecone CA G. DeAnnuntis PA Nina Driscoll RI mindy bocko NH Patricia C Schwarzlander NY Bob Hamburg PA christine perkins NY Carol Niemi TX I won't be buying Driscoll's berries until this is fixed. Roberta Desalle NY If I had been aware of Driscoll's behavior I would. It have bought their strawberries this past Monday. Until they live up to their commitment to community and sustainability, I will make no further purchase of their produce. N Rohatsch NY Janet Berketa ON arlene hickory IL Margaret T.M. CA Petkiewicz Charles Byrne IL Sheila Bailin AB Cheri Logan OR Greg Collins MI Renette Jasphy NY Nelida Rivas NC Timothy Post MO Robert Kline AZ Alan Kittelson VT Marian Meinen NY www.fairworldproject.org 7
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Eric Szymanski MD Joyce Frohn WI Stacy Denton QC Sam Dudley AR Andrew Kurzweil NY Betsy Crofts PA Amanda Albuquerque ot Kim Bigley TX Erika Mikkalo IL Jeri Altman CO Everyone deserves fair pay for the work they do, as well as decent working conditions. Thanks for doing the right thing! Nancy Affleck ID Michelle Bandor IN dc katten AZ carol jagiello NJ I like many vote each day with my consumer dollars. Driscoll has the influence with suppliers to ensure fair and equitable pay. Do the right thing. David Burkett MI Erin O'Reilly CA Sergey Filatov PA Diane Adkin WA Ann Hollyfield OR I'm happy to pay more so that the children of Farm workers have more opportunities. --- Or, I can boycott. Lacey Kammerer CA diann brenner FL howard rotstein OR i will wait for local berriesw before buying from driscoll unless you honor you stated commitment to fairness Robert and Janusko PA Donna j talbot TX John Cappelletti NY Alma Noble VA Peter Bedard CA S Payne GA I look forward to purchasing berries from Driscoll's each year, but this news is making me reconsider my purchases. Rebekah Levy NM Kristen Lowry CA Mary Ellen Miller PA Treat humans with respect! annmarie dinatale NJ Sandra Joy ME Norma MacKellar NB susan moinester TN I will boycott Driscoll until I hear that a fair contract has been negotiated!
Flint Born MA Lorraine Lowry CA Mark Dillingham CO Sabrina Sarne CA
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Sara Bouzas NY Myra Roeoger CO Please! Stop this Now!!!!!!!!! Lindsay Elias IN I've purchased Driscoll's items frequently, and will not do so again until the workers demands are met. Sergio Duran TX Jan McCall WI James Glatz PA Diane Newman DE Manju Kumar CA Stand for fairness! heather marcus NY glenda lamb---wilson OH Lacy King CO Joan Henson KY Michele Shave VA LESLIE SHERIDAN CA Karen Raccio MN Wayne Person NJ Cumie Dunio FL Peter Arneson NY Chad Evans WA Theodore Brazeau TX Anita E Anderson NY Piece rate system with berries? That would be over handling and I know Sakuma Brothers staff isn't counting laborers berries. Sakuma Brothers have you ever heard of fair trade standards? They are based on the United States Labor LAWS!!!! You cannot obstruct workers from unionizing. You will owe your laborers back pay unless you go bankrupt. Anyone buying from this grower, Driscoll, is agreeing with Sakuma Brother's labor practices. That money you saved, isn't yours. Richard Lamb MN Annette Hartshorne WI jason nardell CO Judith Wittner IL Ron Schroeder KS Susan Hochstetler NC Bennett Loy TX Maureen Hicks MI Lana Henson OK Nancy Philips VT Robert Dale Sellers AR Debra Evon MN Jeanine Dimmick PA Peter Budka NY Barbara Poulsen OR hilary capstick FL jim lawrence OR barbara schlitz CA Deanna Davis NY Daniel Puetz IL s kless FL
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Angela Brown VA Helene Willson OH I pay attention to the ethics practiced by those I buy from and will NOT purchase berries that go through Sakuma Bros. hands if you continue this ignorance of justice! Vic Norian ON Midge O'Brien IL C'mon, you guys charge enough (make enough profit) to loosen up a few pennies per hour for fair labor! Nidia Rocha NY Julie Fitzpatrick ot Adelina Jaudal ot susie hannam maggs ot
Marketa Esaili NY Marion Tidwell IN Danny Liebster CA Joyce Reddig TN Debora Rivera KY Therese Desmarais MA Armando A. Garcia CA Jan Ebersole MI H. Guh TX carla rosin CA Vicki Stefancich GA Jen Mullen WA Robert Kaiser MT Sundae Morse MN Marilyn Stewart FL Michelle Boylan NY Jonah Hill DE Nicole Calderon IL Carol Ashley MN Margaret Weimer CA Annie McCuen OR Vafa Ansarifar MA Madeline Perkins NC Helen Curtis WA Nathaniel Hammerli CO Kyle Wills IN Claire Petri NJ Robb de Vournai CA Dawn Grattino OH Elizabeth Guthrie NY Maureen Wheeler MD Heidi Baruch CO people are far more important than money! Peter Kwass MA Alexis Pagoulatos NJ John Stone PA Ariel Shatz NY Jessica Ramirez CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Dixon Withers---Julian SC M farrell NM Ellen Domke IL Glenn Koehrsen OR tom van lear TX Cindy Sanchez GA Joan Sitnick CA Joy Perry TX Harry and Jill Brownfield PA Linda Reilly MA People who care about their food also care about how it is obtained. I would rather pay more than know workers are being unfairly treated. Farming is hard work--- farm workers need to be treated fairly. Nathan Klatt MN I'm a regular Driscoll's customer (love me some organic raspberries!) and would like to be able to continue to be with a clean conscience. Katharine Hilmer DE Charlie Burns CT Stacy Tang HI pamela shaw OH Becky Reimbold Reimbold IN Joan Burroughs AL Jessica Hart IL Erin Harris NM Please do the right thing. Customers will respect you for it. Why not make people proud to buy your products, not proud to boycott them? Jaemy Mazuelos TN Margo McAuliffe CA Lozz of the family WA Kay Megan Petkewec IA Jeffrey Hurwitz CA William Dearstyne MA Maura Buckley IN Lyn Lowry MD Diane Kolessar---Berl PA Michele Reynolds MI Donald Harland NC Jay Pocius CT Karen Clevenger AZ F Corr MA Robert Hamm OK Carol Storthz AR Dyan Gibson MS Ilene Hosterman WI Oli Cosgrove ON It's time for this injustice to stop! --- How much longer do you expect the workers to do slave labour in a supposedly free and compassionate country! So Allen MA sarah caplan AZ gregory cross AZ Susan Tilbury CA www.fairworldproject.org 11
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Kahlil Arnone NY Richard Hieber ot Moe Kafka NJ John Geiser MI Jared Brenner NY Geraldine Borrell NY Huda Al---Qatami GA
Jan Kulp PA Rebecca Tippens MA Have committed to the boycott! Allan Glick Bailly CA Barbara burley WI sally Hinz ot Melissa Michaels CA Brenda Ammon WA Erik rohe PA roger Sabatini WI Frank steinberg PA meryl CA Be a light in the world... God knows we need it. Do the right thing by the good people who help you thrive. Judith Max PA Samuel Durkin CA Gregory Rossi MI Deborah Spencer MA Sondra Olson WI william toner NY Philip Rampi MN Nathan Judy MO Matthew Weaver OH HOLLY YEE NY I'll avoid purchasing Driscoll's from now on. Lisa Witham OH Dan Esposito CA Karen Taylor MN Kim King CA Rev. Peggy Malnati MI Without justice and fair wages for workers, we all suffer and farms are unsustainable. Charlotte Fremaux WV I am counting on you to do the right thing and cease dealing with Sakuma Bros' Farm. I am a regular consumer of your organic berries, but will suspend my support of your company if you don't stand for justice.
Margaret Everitt CA Katherine Nolan CA Judith Beltz IN Carol Corcoran MD Karen Hotchkiss WA Sue Slinic IL Patricia Kelly MT Please support the workers. Anne vittles NC William Larson NY Michael Roehm MD
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Stephanie Regan NY Fair pay!!! gay lawson IN Diane Rigda CA Mary Beth OConnor NY Lisa Stevenson TX bill\ liddle NY
Jenna Woodcox ON Holly Mosher CA Lawrence Berardi PA Protect American workers, and provide a living wage. safia gravel NY rick canning IL Holly Kukkonen IA Kathryn Plitt WA Cindy Risvold WI Laura Muñoz ot Cassandra Suarez---Hanson NM
Holly Green WA Diane Eisenhower FL Dorothy Hobart NY Shauna Castonguay IL Joanna Stalker FL Joseph Buccelli NV Qayyum Johnson CA Danny Dwinell Shoreline Labor matters. Abigail Wright IA Victor Escobar VA Lisa Whalen OH Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! Ronnie Bolling FL Dr. Shelley Sovola OR Daniel Duller IL Joh Glover WA Stephanie Cruz NY Basia Klincewicz QC Keri Stokes CA Chas Martin MO S. Dwyer IN Richard Johnson WA P Scoville NJ Angel Mercer CA Diana Dee CA Michael Marshall BC Andrew Kessel GA Barbara Schwartz FL Tammy Weatherly OH Rosi Libertini ot Sarah Lanzman VA
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Zillah Minx ot Anton McInerney FL Joseph Werzinski PA Irma de Vries ot Geoff Nelson MD marilyn vey NY Joanna Behrens WY Paul Nykiel NE Corinne Jankowski MI I buy a lot of Driscoll berries in Michigan. Please stop supporting farms that treat their workers in this manner. Barbara Campbell TX joe and mary volpe CA Raven Haber NJ Dorothy Thum AZ j angell CA Karen Manetta CA Steven Kostis NY Bret Smith CA Douglas Frye NY M. Davis NY Nancy Denton NJ Lois Bond WA cathy carleton NY Mary Garcia CA Susan Carroll PA noelle bazzi FL lately we have been fighting for justice everywhere ,something is not right , NO ONE on earth have justice at all ,greed and selfishness is the driving force soo far Shauna Martin AL Linda Abbott NY Dr. Rhonda Marcus CO I purchase OG Driscoll berries and will stop until there is a fair wage and working conditions for the workers. Cecelia Gilbert NY John Poss ot Rocco Passafaro CA Jane Chischilly AZ Paul Palla PA PEOPLE OVER PROFITS! IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND FOR WHAT'S RIGHT!! John Csaszar PA Christina Fredrickson OR Marilyn Siddiqi IL John and Tamara Bliss MA Driscoll's is a steady supplier of berries to Whole Foods. Has Whole Foods been approached? Crystal Sloan TN As a child, I did stoop labor in the fields of Eastern Washington. I wish we had had a union back then. margaret sweeton KS Marc Massar FL Peggy Loe CA Laura Niewenhous MD
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Vicky Moraiti ot Chessa Rae Johnson LA MICHAL CLINE ot Robert & Helen Swab OH Ian Shelley OR Nancy Bennett AZ Dan Rice WA Alicia Guevara ot Bob Thomas OR Irwin Hoenig MD chris anctil NH Anne---Marie Davis GA Debbi Coltharp LA john papandrea NY rich k AZ Mary Ann Hilgeman MO
Wayne Lensu NY scott parmele IN Colin Ritchie CA Neil Dunaetz CA Driscoll's berries don't taste as good now that I know about Sakuma's abuse of their workers. I won't be buyng Driscolls brand until I hear that the Sakuma Brothers situation has been fairly resolved. liesje vanneste ot Cynthia Launer MN Carol Jurczewski IL Please stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers until they treat their workers more fairly! Leigh Moross CA JJ L. WA I purchase your berries, but will need to stop if this is not remedied. I will not buy 'suffered' strawberries!!! Katrin Sippel ot Atticus Carr TX Ronald Warren CA Kathleen Williams WA Claire Alkire WA I will not buy from Driscoll until workers are paid a fair wage and are granted decent working conditions. Robert Ortiz CA Judy Slater FL Jane Ashwell---Carter ot
James Stone FL Mike Betz WA Sakuma Brothers have losing to the farm workers in Skagit County Superior Court. What they are doing is illegal.
Chuck Oatman PA Elaine Becker VA EUGENE BURLES ON Tracy McPherson CA Janet Klecker CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms eugene peters AZ Right On! Todd Miller CO Bruce Lowrey MO Claudia Wornum CA Donald Wilson PA Richard Peterson IL Susanne Hesse & Doug FL Dyer lisa decker ot Steve Clough MO Gerritt and Baker---Smith PA Elizabeth Eileen Shaw MA Stacy Bloodworth OR Kenneth Belz ID Gary Dalecky IA Mary Duvall OR I buy Driscoll berries, organic, so hope you will support good labor practices. Barbara Dougherty PA Robin Pinsof IL Margaret Jablonski WI GERRY QUEENER ID I quit buying anything with Sakuma's name as a source. Sharon Wilson NY Karen Woodhall MA Patricia Herrera FL Janet Black NC Ellen Halbert MD William Blair ID Donna Bookheimer PA Jeff Kline CA Richard Peterson IL We will not by Driscoll's until this issue is resolved fairly. mary otten OR I have purchased your strawberries, but I will not do so until I hear that you have dropped your relationship with this farm that treats its workers shamefully. Corry Schafer TX Lauren Stark TX John Hansen CA Joan Clark MA s Logan FL Wilbur Little CO Larry P Smith BC david leitch CA Emily Graves NM THOMAS BOGETTI PA jon longsworth CA Azia Singh ot Patricia Fiedler PA Betty J. Van Wicklen NY Nancy Radford NV
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms janet maker CA Karen Stingle OR Be fair to farmworkers. Si, se puede. Laurie Nichols MA Philip Shook AZ Shari Bruun WA Kathie Fallon FL Bill Marvin OH Gavin Trowsdale CA I am a frequent purchaser of Driscoll berries. Please do the right thing for the farmworkers and their families. Donna Butler MN Janice Gloe CA Julie friedman OR Jane Harada CA Susan Brown ON My extended family enjoys your berries, and hope you do the right thing so we won't have to go to another source Eva Goss NH Linda Bridges IL virginia jastromb MA Carla Behrens CO Solveig Lindholm ot Geeia Habing SC I love Driscoll's strawberries, but I won't purchase anymore until Sakuma negotiates a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Amber Butler FL Eric Forrester CA Paul Horne FL Alex Buechle WA Cynthia Rome CO Let's treat our fellow humans as we would like to be treated. They are doing some of the hardest labor and need to be fairly compensated! I will honor your pickers by not buying your berries at this point and spreading the word. Julie Cornelius NJ Paul Albrecht PA yvonne keraval FL I will not buy any longer Driscoll's produce until they honor worker's rights. Azra Ajdinovic ot Deborah Thelen NY Morgan Clark NJ Anita Buffer PA SAKUMA BROTHERS: are an embarrassment to the U.S. Nora Monnet CO Corey E. Olsen WI Nancy Moore WI EDWARD G. MRKVICKA CO maureen cauthen NY Carol Greer NY Kim Rutty MA I'm a fan of Driscoll's berries------or I was! Pay fair wages for some of the hardest work a person can do! Bonny Rambarran ON Ken Lesem VT Todd Gukelberger CT
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Mark Santora VA Marlene DeNardo CA Linda Hood SC Alice Green CO I keep track and I don't buy anything from companies who purchase products from farms who don't pay workers fair wages. Do the right thing or lose money. Margaret Stein AZ Reto Pieth VT Jared Jackson PA Susan Zeiger NY Valerie Parmley IL M Spencer OR Ellen Perrin ot Karen O'Brien IL Beverly Scholar CA Melissa Schade WI Antonio Marxuach CO Stella Weber CO Who's making the money...& who's doing all the work with minimal pat.?! Be Fair...!!! Nickie H Keene AZ Bev JJ CA Ann Quota NY Matt Larson CA Debra Moore MI nancy salvatierra TX Joyce Weisberger NY Rebecca McDonough WA Mary A Borchers WV Cybele Wolf CA Glenn Ferrari NY Deb Lincoln IA Carole Mathews GA Jeff Hess CO David Nichols OR Luke Miller FL Scott Franks CO Robin Lewis OH Sandra Wright MD Karen Guilliams FL Yvonne Johnson OH lisa gilles OH Tammy Roberson WA lynda leigh CA Donna Fabiano CA Judith Poxon CA Elizabeth Rosenberg MA Katherine Babiak MD I have been a longtime customer of Driscoll berries, but I will not buy them until a fair contract is given. Stephanie Glover ot
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Vicki Word NM Clarence Hagmeier CA Jessica Denham CA Chip Heister PA Thomas Russell IL Tamara Bergman CA Hollis Higgins WA Slavery is not a stable foundation for a viable community that values human life and human labor. Manos Karakostas ot Jerry Peavy CA Phillip Schwartz OR Eve Isen CO Lisa Goldman IN Barbara Potts CA Jonah Schwartz CA Phyllis Chavez CA Jessica Janecki NC Melinda Armistead MA Susan Levanduski NV bernardo alayza mujica IA David Gentry TX Remy Goglio WA Kevin Branstetter CA Areena Estul NM Grace Burson NH P Hudson VT katherine Davis CA Donna Loren CA Timothy Scerra NH Sakuma Brothers , Be fair to your workers . Frances Wade MT Every worker is worthy of his hire. When you put profit before people you lose customers and it will cost you in the long run. William Nusbaum MN prisca gloor CA Sherrylee Felger OR nick yashirin FL Esther Ackley PA Joanna Taylor WY Terry San Cartier CA Melanie Morgon MA We are ALL better of each of us is better, safer, and working together. Your products are in many of my local stores, and I will not buy Driscoll products until you actually------not just in name only------support producers with fair wages and working conditions. jacob CHACHKES, CT M,D, Doris Warnstedt ot Linda Lovell OH
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Patricia Caraballo IL Farmworkers work so hard for such low pay that anything that can be done to improve the conditions should be. I bet Sakuma Brothers are rolling in dough --- they need to share the wealth.
Chuck Graver NJ Jonna Johnson MI Dave Bonvicin NY David Dahle NY Cheryl Mayo KS curt johnson CO Jeanne De Smedt NJ Mary Eldredge VT Nikki Theard ID Stephanie Mayes WA Quentin Fischer VA KC Carney PA Roger Oborn WA Hay, I do like your Raspberries, but --- will with hold until you are a fair party... Adam Eidinger DC I will now stop buying your products until you play fairly with your workers. Diego Matek NM Jered Cargman CA Sandra Brand NC andy tomsky CA Jane Spicer NC Love strawberries but wont be buying yours without a just contact with the farm workers. Annette Waddington ot Tom Sanchez CA Kimberly Alderman WV Mary Hartley PA Annie McCombs MI I buy Driscoll berries. I hope that I don't have to begin to boycott Driscott products because you continue to buy from Sakuma Brothers berry farm while they resist negotiations with their workers. I mean it. cherilynn tilford ID Don Herden FL JIm Whitworth BC I can't do much as a consumer to stop these kinds of abuses except quit buying Driscoll's products and spread the word about them. Ripping off the workers is really not all that smart and a bad reputation is a hard thing to live down. John Tovar IA Michele Freund CO R PALM TX Mary Anne Osmundsen VA paul engstrom CA P Duerr ON Todd Fisk CA Mike Rudnick NY Harley Armentrout AZ A living wage benefits everyone, including the owners.
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Lourdes Best CA How can you sit back and not step in? I'm done from this point on! No a dirty Berries ! nancy simon CA Wen Loren OR Arnold Advocate CA Alina Holder SC george craciun FL Jonathan and Morse VT Charlene Kevin Jorgensen CA Imagine a reversal of forunes and, please, make justice a priority. Robert Johnson CA Karen Follingstad CA I will boycott Driscoll products and Sakauma Brothers Berries until a fair contract is negotiated. Angie Bray CA Henry Garcia---Alvarez CA Margaret Lincoln AZ Yuka Persico CA k. hafer CA Linda Klein CA Lillian Sills TX Ron Hubert AZ Mindy Maxwell MA Mike Dotson IL Cori Bishop NJ Michael Pinkham CA Gary Webber MT Nate Sewell CA Bill & Marilyn Voorhies ME Honest labor must be fairly compensated! Dona LaSchiava AZ James Senger Jr WI Julia Goode MI Kristen Kind NY Annette Arvizu CA have respect for labor workers they work hard they need a fair trade system in place. Amy St Lawrence AZ James Scott MS aron shevis NY Kendra Holt MD Jack Coulehan CA Denise Vandermeer CA Patricia Brescia--- NY Cantine Teresa Bailey MN I care about the workers who pick my food. Please do not buy from suppliers who do not pay fair wages. David Schwartz VA Francine Dolins MI Ed Bennett WA john seeburger WA Chuck Comstock TN
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Nancy Walrath AZ Lisabette Brinkman CA Carole Pooler IL Pat Dittrich MN Ruthie Berneart HI Eleanor Weisman PA Phoebe Oaks IN Courtney Versluis MO John Perez CA Hillary Sametz MO laura Straniero OH Connie Lippert SC Mitchell Shea MA LeRoy Martinez MT Kevin O'Brien MA Linda McCrosky NC Howard Cramer ON Ann Millonig NY Dana Allen OR I will be boycotting Driscoll brand products until they honor this petition.
Jean Sward CA Urmila Padmanabhan CA PAT MAGERA WI Katherine McCanlies CA renee Such OR Patricia Chambers CT Donna Profeta NY Miguel Ridolfi CA Margie Borchers CA Shame on you for undermining the very people who make money for you.... Rebecca Canright NJ Jessica Puk PA Lynn Frost NM Grace Hall MA No more purchases of Driscoll's products until there is a change. Jo Forkish CA Patricia Rodgers WA Patricia Wakeman OH Victoria Morgan FL Ron Giddings CA Lilian Robinson MA Brian Yanke WI Anne Small TN Uh---Oh--- No more Driscoll berries for us! Adam Versenyi NC Jessea Greenman CA Shawn Patterson ot Douglas Lass IA Laura Silverman NY Bettye Short TX Kim White OH
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Jared Laiti CA Patricia Chelmecki IL Katherine Prum MA Robin Mayerat NY Sandra Farkas WI Marcia Sobel NC Debbie Kenyon NC Eileen Fry BC Sebastien Hernalsteens ot Louis Vega CA Elena Greco NY Peter Kraniotakis NY it is important for worker's to have a fair system. Christian Hartleben PA Tina Martin NY Christina Ewald MA Patrick Gray WV Kathryn Christian CO LaurelStein Stein CA Jessica Landon CA Irene Alexakos CA Rhonda Rumrey CA
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John Massaro NJ Janie Lucas CA Janet Leshner NY TROYA TISEO NY Eleanor Hayes TX Carol Bevis HI a d MD Gabriel Graubner CA mario maraldo MI Marcia Cooper Cooper MA Kat Davis CA Be loving and caring Sharon Kurach CO Monique Musialowski MI Nathan Tannenbaum NY Ilse Peetz CA Ursula Cohrs OH June Meek OH Philp Curry TX Susan Sheinfeld CA Donald Worley WA I farm in WA and I buy Driscoll berries. I will not buy Driscoll again until I know of your promotion of fair labor in the farms you buy from. Steve Hanrahan OR Donna McRae ON ordell vee MI Alan Romanczuk SC Carole Gonsalves CA
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Howard Markert OH Judith Marvin PA Ronda Snider WA Sarah Lifton CA Alison Pryle CA Driscolls is making plenty of money, especially on organic. You reap what you sow. You owe these people and your good will comes back with bounty. Theresa Byer ON Robert Rohner TX Teresa Trucksess MD Meli Fraser ON Michele Samuels CA I am a customer of Driscoll. I care about the people who grow and harvest my food. You should too. Bruce Shilling WA Helena Lin CT Johanna Held KY Sheila Cooley GA David O'Grady NY Michael Herman FL Amber Bruce WA Andie D NY Debbie Imhoff WI Nicholas Sherman VT Kathleen Lantz MD Andrew Driscoll MA My distant brethren, ------Without farm workers the world will starve. Please treat these dignified and important people with integrity. ------Andrew Driscoll Kristin Green MI Roger Horn PA Dalyn Ortega AZ Joe & Marilynn Pavlov MI Don Salsburg NJ I promise to never buy Driscoll's berries again until they stop buying from Sakuma. Paul & Kathleen Lanctot CA Quan Myers ME M Eades WA Linda Messatzzia PA Nancy Farha KS Take care of your growers! Jessica File MO Merle Davis FL Kristian Koerwitz IL Jenny Goldschmidt MA Sally Small IN Tor Nichols NM Susan Campbell FL Linda Anderson AZ Laura Herndon CA david taylor OR harold meyer jr CT
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Anthony Stratton CA Not buying anymore Donald Jones TX I am a regular purchaser of Driscoll berries. Nancy Wiens CA Uli Johnson WA Maary Ann Tasker--- WA Thompson Ruth Lanton NY cori dubord ot Bret G. MO Familias Unidas por la Justicia would like to work with you not against you. Consider fairness not faults. Marsha Dowling CT Every human being deserves respect no matter what job they perform to support themselves and their families. Even a home gardener knows hands on agricultural work is "hard work". Profits/greed before respect for our fellow man shall surely be our demise. No more Driscoll produce for my household until Sakuma Bros. change or you purchase from a decent source. Andrea Zajac MI Ryan Davis CA Deborah Ludwig WV Denise Recalde IL Danielle Bergmann CT Guy Zahller Aptos I'm disappointed in Driscoll. you are right in my backyard and I expect better of companies on the progressive west coast! Helena Schaareman OH Mark Walch NM Linda Beckman OH Yvonne Winsor OR Victoria Old CA TROY TROYER CA ann moore DC Alexandra Meyer ot Marylucia Arace CA Ron Elwood IN JoAnn Keenan WA Ana Lopez NM Bonnie Faith---Smith MA Ron Taylor AZ Donna D Varcoe PA Lynn Jenkins NJ Marilyn Higgins MI erin bailey IA If we do not support these families rights, who will? Mary Barbezat IL Patrick Keiser MN Luan Le TX Dominik Eckenstein NY Diane Sullivan WA S. Etherton NY Jim Piper WA Emily Fisher AZ www.fairworldproject.org 25
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David Oligny OH Morgan Huffman NC darlene driver TX Wayne Mortimer MT Florence Erwin BC John Leahy ot David Kemnitzer CA ERIC benchimol ON Phyllis Miller MA Stephen Hill Jr MA amelie shadout CA CHRISTINA BALLINGALL MI
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Trisha Hansen Hansen WA Sharon B. NY Sharon Parshall WA Alan Bixler NM T Cho NY Randy Nies MN Mike Hittle SD Mary Lebert MI Jacqueline Olsen NY Lisa Freeze NY Robert Helson ot Karl Koessel CA Marilyn Borchardt CA Paco Rivera CA terry creech---brunt CO Will Foster TX marce garn BC Charles Kinsey IN
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Becki Fulmer IN Jean Martens ME L A Sherman OR Helene Rosen PA Ramona McNally AZ Ralph Notaro NJ Monique TONET ot Joseph Sharp OR I will not buy Driscoll's products until this is resolved. I am a current customer and have been for a very long time. Marina Morrone NY Kevin Goodwin OH Bob Hearns QC Gail bates CA Liane Gayler AB Christina DeGus AZ D. Johnson VA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Mark Coyne ot Such shame to associate with a product. Why do people buy their products? James Abercrombie MI John Wiesner CA Jenette D'Alessandro NY Cindy Brady CO Alison Guzman RI David Modarelli OH Amy Hartzog NC dan van FL Jeanette Martin PA stevie sugarman CA Robert Keim FL Lee Hutchings TX Margaret Goodman PA Esther Weaver NY Ryan Keane MA Julene Weaver WA David Snope NJ Cathy Thornburn CA Susan Bassett AZ Diana Stevens AK Lisa Casper MI Doris Munger CT Joanne Chenoweth OR Meghan McCutcheon WA Frank Gonzales Jr. MI William Farkas MA Sheila Pratt BC Jennifer Hansen TX Vicky Brandt NY James Tyree II OR Michael Tomczyszyn CA Sara Smith AB Cyrene Aksman MI cathy mcelroy BC joan schwartz MA John Shaw CO Workers deserve a livable wage. David Aylward CA James Bachman IL Dan McKenzie OR Rebecca Slisher OH Linda Garza CA Cynthia McNamara NM mikkel gredvig WA Mary Jones--- WI Giampalo Lawrence Schuchart WA Kiesha Pearson TX
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Theresa Racanelli IN karen tilton IL Amit Shoham CA Timothy Schacht MI Carolyn Fletcher WA Carly Cylinder CA Nicole Uhing IA John Cort CO Rae Ann Gustafson CA Rima Rosenthal ME Michele Herrick AZ Si Se Puede Christy Rodgers CA Kim Fitch CT emilia boccagna ot Lynn Adams CA Marcia Mulloy AK Susan Wallace ot Kathleen Artz---Iffland MI Terrence Glassman FL Karin Ralph NY I buy fair trade. If you won't practice sustainibility, I will not be purchasing your brand. William Parr MA Sarah Sercombe MI Jackie Simms FL Claire Coleman TX Sandra Williams AZ Natalie Van Leekwijck OR Ricardo Fonseca NJ Gary Tonkin MN Debbie Slack VA Paul Groh FL brenda lee NY Eddy Liu CA V Loring MA Gabriel Sheets CA Greg Stawinoga IL Joseph Morris CA James Melloh MD ME Healthy food includes production under clean, safe, fair conditions. We can go elsewhere. Pamela Davis HI Benjamin Krohling MN Mary Sue Baker FL Everyone deserves a livable wage and fair treatment. Being wealthy doesn't give people the right to be above the law. Katharine Babb HI Erik Schmitz OR Until you change your practice, I shall buy from other providers. Thank you for changing this practice. Jared Cornelia DE Lorree Gardener WA Put human rights ahead of corporate profits! Milne www.fairworldproject.org 28
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Hal Anthony OR Driscoll creates a giant broken agreement by not supporting people's rights to respect in the workplace. Equality makes America stronger, not weaker, and common ground means equal treatment! Steven Goldman NY I buy driscoll's products which I will stop doing. Laura Napoleon NY Steven Berge CA Shirley Rice NY I eat Driscoll berries, but I will stop if you buy from suppliers who cheat their workers. Gary Hull UT Octavia P. CT Jason mustard TX Nathalie Quesnel ot jennifer bradley CA Gary Haven CA Gerry Milliken AZ Nick Berezansky NJ Cristina Economides AK Judy Curtis NM James Dinsmore CA Barbara Snowadzky ME Zabrina Leith NJ David Mitchell CO Dianna MacLeod WA Bruce Hlodnicki IN Tom Bailey MA Iris Edinger CA Angie Den MN Susan Larson CA barbara vanhorn PA Raymond Bissonnette MN Jon Nelson CA Diana Henderson VA Wow, amazing that people in power would rather cater to short---term profit than health and long---term prosperity. Hoping you sense the sarcasm...
Haydn Huntley HI JoLynn Doerr IL Trixie Brunson NY Julie Block WI Clive Smith NJ Dennis Jansen FL Heather Rodman ID I grew up in berry country, back when the labor laws were such that schoolchildren were used for berry picking labor, and I've worked the field. It's hard work, and not without health risks. Fair pay, and a fair work environment, are both past due for these workers! I will not purchase Driscoll's until I hear that this has been resolved. Thank you for reading my comments. victoria pittman OK boycott driscoll.
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Brenda Bryant CA Come on! These hard working people deserve at least decent treatment. Stop supporting Sakuma's abuse. M. Schweri CO I would willingly pay a few cents more per box of Driscoll's berries so that the people who pick them can have a fair wage. I could not enjoy eating the berries if I knew my enjoyment was on the backs of the workers. I boycotted grapes in the '70's --- I will boycott berries now! Amie Alter CA Hank Bromley GA Donald and Lee Thwing MI zelma fishman CA Mark Lusch UT David Sorge CA Linda Rubiano NJ Farm workers are essential to the nation's food system. Pay them fair wages and give them all benefits. Teresa Carstensen OH Terry Moseley OR I buy a lot of Driscoll's berries---over 50 packages last year---I request that they do business in good faith. Thank you. Andrea Tong---Dickson CA Lilithe Magdalene CA Luisa P FL Mary Hammond OH Dignity and fairness are natural not fear of lack and greed. Act with right action here please and thank you. Bob Wagenknecht ID Sean Mahoney CA Marguerite O'Rourke MD Monika Huber ot Nanette Dupre MN Vicki Taylor WI Tom Walsh CA Sigrid Langhaeuser CT Linda Burnside Burnside ON Driscolls is a large supplier of organic berries and as a consumer I would assume is committed to sustainability. Their continued support of the Sakuma Brothers berry farm proves that assumption wrong. Vidya Sivan MA Tony Vanoni CA Julie Whiting CA P. Joy Pryor MI Michael Garitty CA Lee Johnson IL Victoria Jacobs CA Kenneth Ruby NH F Sutton BC Jon Mullin TX Namphuong Quach HI zoe cohen OR Hilary Emberton CA cindy bushway FL elly worden WA Marcel Roberge MB
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Gregg Johnson CA Patricia Webb VA Mollie Kwiek MI Dawn Unruh TX Valerie Guinan OR tom schwartz CA Javier Rivera NY Randall Woodbury CA Emily Boone KY Randall Esperas OR Lisa Utter WA Sara Long OR Tim Duda TX Sakuma --- Sign the Contract !!! John Kohl VT Melissa Gutierrez AZ S Smith NY Mack Freestone CO Sonia Ness IL Eileen Lamar WA Fair should be fair. Unreasonable treatment is not acceptable. I will not buy Driscoll berries any more. craig todd OH Doug Busch CA Christopher King CA Fayette Krause WA Linda Sparks CO I will no longer buy Driscoll's berries. We need to stand with the people who do the labor. Patrick York NC Mary Lou Laslie FL Arthur Connor CA Margaret Fortuny AR beverlee goynes CT randy cofer WA Ingeborg Seastone OR Cathy Brownlee AR Annette Pirrone CA Melissa Andolina IL Erik Hvoslef CO Patrice MARTIN ot Kaci O. CA Nancy Bishop OR Robert H. Feuchter NY I Buy a lot of Driscoll's products each week. That stops now. Ken Wottowa IL Katherine Lorencz OH shannon jacobs NJ Kathie Van Epps NV Gail Garrison CA Carol Rahbari MI Susan Coppard ot Mary Parvis MD
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Maureen Kurtz Kurtz FL a Fair Contract is only right!!! Kathy Bradley SC Norman Traum CO Holly Dowling CA Karen Lord NH mike kappus CA Lyn Lukich WA Robyn Richards NM Driscoll's raspberries are usually quite delicious, but this puts a bad taste in my mouth. You better fix that by berry season, or a boycott is increasingly likely! Richard Brown ID Marianne Hoffman WA Linda Zipprich UT Andrea Kehoe CO Cindy Gough NY The world would be a better place if everyone was treated fair. Gloria Pilkington IN Love your berries, but would boycott if needed. We need to do what is right and honest in this land. Thomas Dannecker CA Leah Hollon WA Paquette David Osterhoudt CA Raymond CorbeilRaymon CT dC Cara Smith BC Phyllis Park OH Rob Leadaman IL Charles Webb NC LISA PATTON CA Elinor Gannon WA I will no longer buy this brand now that I know what is happening at the source! jon frank NY Keith D'Alessandro MI Linda Nelson Vancouver Cindy Deering NM Jesse Katzman, L.Ac. MN Lois Jackson VT Marilyn Hoff NM Gary Smith PA Barbara McLaughlin NH Mary Khalil NY ina becker NY June Green CA Angie Johnson WA Robin Mitchell CO Susan Perez CA Andrew Costigan MA Melanie Dupre RI Joan Thomas GA Cynthia Cunningham CO www.fairworldproject.org 32
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Dean Webb WA Ann McMullen UT Jan Scott CA Karen Ausfahl CO Samuel Stroup PA Helen White ot Ric Bernat OR Brandon Ballinger NC Erma Lewis NY Alan Young HI Cindy Montgomery PA At least these folks want to work------pay them a decent wage for it! I will no longer purchase Driscoll's fruit until this is resolved satisfactorily for all. Lucina Trujillo WA Daniel Hoeren ot A Corbet CA Annie McMahon AZ Celia O'Kelley AL Wendy Caesar CA Nancy Pichiotino MI Carrie Darling AZ west rock AZ Lois Jordan AZ yolanda mitchell AZ Luis Deveze CA Paul Williams NC Mary Button Button NY sandra downing FL A Adams CA Ann Pate KY Kent Minault CA Paul Daly OR Carol Stewart BC Terry Bergeron MO Sharon Forrest GA Lisa Kavanaugh OH Dawn Albanese IL Elisabeth Mueller--- ot Schwefe Frank Ward OR Melissa Dodson CT Larry Carney MI Nina LaSalle WA Carla Pereira NJ Mary Tullock CA Paul Ripley CA Derek Gendvil NV Brenda Morgan NY Francine Walbon WA www.fairworldproject.org 33
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Carol Bradley--- FL Johnson Richard Han MI Daniel Helsel CA joel lorimer NM Sharon Lieberman CA Laurel Anderson CO Joseph Foegen NY C'mon Driscolls, stand by your word...fair pay for the farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers. Georgia Shankel IL dorothy holt TN Piero Zoro TX Mary de Bassecourt ON Judie Mackie NY Michael Hoover CA Harriette Jensen CA Penny Heintz CA james ashcraft CA Marla Bottesch ME Ruth Anne MacEachern BC Seiko Fujii CA The abuse on farm workers has to stop, even if it means higher cost for food. Mark Grzegorzewski FL h massey MA W. Andrew Stover PA Ceri McClellan ot Paul Addington TX James Comeau CA Jennifer Sumiyoshi NV Maria Walker HI Wendy Fitzgerald OR Giovanni Perna ON florence gauthier ot Chris Lopes MI JOHN OAKES PA Eeva Patrakka WA Deirdre Rose NY Cheryl Williams IL Alex Rappaport NV Elizabeth Contreras MA John Steponaitis CA John Keiser NY omar Beqaj NY Mithu Melanie Sanyal ot Bethany Frasier OH Ann C. McGill OH Mary F IA Robert Foley jr MA Jim May ID
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Jerry Miller WA alexander daughtry BC S Harrell CO Shame on you! I've been a loyal Driscoll berry consumer for decades. Today, you lost me as a customer. Until you do the right thing and support workers' basic rights and fair wages, I will not buy your berries. I intend to tell my friends and family to tell their friends and families to do the same. Grace Weston WA I'm shocked --- I've always bought Driscoll's berries assuming they support workers' rights to organize and be treated fairly and with dignity. I won't buy again until I hear that workers have gained greatly improved treatment. Michael Denton CA Kellie Smith NH Mathias Hartinger ot Deborah Parker WA Mark Enser CO Russell Skinner WI Kurt Speidel CA Gail Meese OH Lauri Sayliss WA EDWARD CHAPMAN MN Vickie Ellers NY Rhonda D. Wright, MD GA Deborah Fexis NH Chris Hornbacker IL Merle Dockendorff IA Sue Halligan MN sharon Daskal OH Laura Coates NJ Christina Marcus NY Deb Lincoln IA Albert R. Matheny FL Joanne Dixon CO William Hassig IL Every worker should have union representation. First level supervisors should also have union representation.
Craig Warren CA Antony Brooks ot Jennifer Bagheri CA THOMAS CRUMPTON CA Richard Kuntze CA Janice Ehrenhaft IL Stephen Alley CO Ross Heckmann CA Teri Sahm WA Macy Zwanzig WA Kristin Bromfield MD Ty Shlackman FL
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Renée Neumann AZ KEN GIDLUCK SK lets be fair or I stop buying Judi Kaminski IL A R Thomas AZ Sonja Cole NJ Barbara Wyly MA Herbert Jeschke PA Joseph Lilli CA Charleen Kubota CA Esther Wolf WA Alison Lukasik CT Bret Polish CA Maggie Shields MA Harold Saunders ON James Woodruff WA Alexis Baden---Mayer DC Cyndi Hunt FL karen rudy PA Steve Sivley TX Sofie Forsberg ot E Holden TX grace Johnson NE Brent Rusert CA Patrick Phillips CO Hilary Rayhill ID Margo Vanderhill IA Samuel Aley OR David Lipfert NY David Gies MI William G Gonzalez NY Candice Lowery NY ELIZABETH BRYANT ID Michael Swiger MI Lucy Kahn NY Tecari Shuman VT Richard Fish MN Ellen McConnell NJ su Jacob FL Samantha Miller OH Neilia Pierson OR Vicki Montgomery BC Angelique St.Pierre FL Anna Russo OR Tal Kinnersly CA Cathy Wilcox UT Brandon Kozak IL Christine Brazis CA Virgil Salzman CO Lakota Crystal WA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Ruth Hart WI Trish Bennett BC Patricia Hilde MN Georgia Mattingly CO Janet Thorngate WV I will also quit buying Driscoll's berries until------Susan Kulis CT Susan W MD Everyone deserves to live with dignity. Cynthia Raiser Jeavons CA We want fairly produced food! Arthur Kennedy CA Roy England II FL Karsten Mueller CA robert mayton KY Tamara Schwartzentru BC ber Eric Johnson NJ Barbara Lehman CA Barbara Hiatt CA John Culloty CA Mr. Michael C. Dr. Richard B. CA We are "local" as far as Driscoll's here in Watsonville. We now tell all our Ford and Marks friends to buy from Swanton's --- a unionized farm. Eric Fry TX Debra Letchworth NC Delbert Contival HI Tracy Leigh CO kim a CA V.E. Perkins CO We consumers want you to treat your --- workers fairly. Moose Gustafson IL John Lee WA Suzanne Kruger WV Manmeet Toor CA Stephen Sleeper FL What you are doing to your workers (you know, the people who make sure you even have a bottom line) is criminal on so many levels. Eric Robson WI Nancy McKeague IL Jane C CT Jose Perez ot gaby santiago TX Mary K Witter WA This struggle for justice has gone on way too long. I won't buy any more Driscoll berries until they take a stand with Familias Unidas por la Justicie! Lisa Hammermeiste CA r robert roth OH Robert H. Wilcox MO Charles Arnold NH sheila low---beer SC Stephanie Sklar MD Scott Coahran CA Randy Gyory PA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Vince Snowberger CO ROBERT PARKER CA STELLATO heather bauer AZ Julie Slater---Giglioli CA Gretchen Clay WA janice duvall CA Kristen Howard MI Lee L'Enfant CO Shaun Ryan CA Sergio Padilla ot Crystal Mourad CA Ann Padden---Rubin CA Show true compassion through your actions. Jen perlaki NY Amanda McNeill CO Bonnie Lynn MacKinnon TX Deja Lizer NC Seth Snapp WA Betty Jackson ot Nancy Metcalf WA Recommended reading on this topic: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies ------Please stand with farm workers and support system changes that allow for their welfare. Myrna Tuttle CA Rich InLove OR Christian Reyes CA James Costello CA Gary Samura HI Steve Overton ot Beulah White OH A. Obermeier NM Linda McDermond PA Margie Robinson CA Helen Cu NY Monica Black TN Michael White OH Sarah Wiebenson OR Steven Tyndall CA MaryAnn Burch NY Christine Bassett CA Valerie Gilbert NY jacob weill CA No more Driscoll's berries! --- Pay your workers, do not exploit. --- Shame on you. Sal Amendola NY Elizabeth Edwards TX William Barnes TX Gisela Peake ot Patricia Brown CA Martha Shogren CA Joseph Wenzel MN
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Annie Dwight VT Christine Polson NE Madeline Shaw NY Randy THatcher OH Grace Diemand MA Honor the workers and the work that they do, without them you would not have a business. Steve Olson CA marcela Rodriguez TX Stephanie Fairchild OH Please be fair! Tasha Van Hemme ON Eusebio Manuel vestias DC Vestias pecurto Kathy Moraski MN Ginny Schrappen MO Why are you not negotiating with your workers. Your strawberries and other crops would not be picked if it were not for these low---paid workers. Debbie Schmidt CA Sandra Reynolds CA Anita Alcantara IL Rolf Friis KY Catherine Gould CA M Solomon II PA rebecca koo CA Dudley and Campbell CA Candace John and Linda Peck MN John Crotty MO Julian Faledas WI Karol Walker MI Phillip Mixon GA Mario Velarde FL Diane Blackburn TX jeff hopkins IL Peter Keck MD Driscoll's fruit regularly occupies my home. In order to continue buying their products, I'd like to know they support fair labor practices Anthony Joseph FL Christina Rhode TX HonoraBright Aere OR Jane Church NC Sundra Allen UT James Carr CO Mark Luciano RI William Hewes CA JAMES SOLKIN QC Until I see that changes have been made regarding decent working conditions and fair wages for the workers, driscoll's will not find its way into my grocery basket again and I will speak of this injustice to everyone I know or meet in the grocery store. Jennifer(Santropol) Whitney Robson SK Gretchen Patey WI www.fairworldproject.org 39
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James Mulcare WA Dave McFetridge BC Suzanne Liscomb MA Josephine Burns ot Katharine Tussing NY Suzanne Saunders FL Michael Kostya OH Howard K. Beale, Jr. MA esther roblin NY mario finateri NY Bob Steininger PA David Preston NY I would gladly pay more for Driscoll's berries to insure that farm workers are properly compensated for their labor. Jim Snee VT Tracey Katsouros MD G Amigon NY John heath CO There needs to be a balance. Food corporations need to be part of the solution instead of the problem Randy Harrison OR Hillary Ostrow CA Maria Stahl OH Leslie Henderson ot Linda Reid TX Jack Milton CA Michael Rosenbaum NY Diane Place CO Karen Murphy VA Annie Houston DC Lynne Preston CA
Agnes Taylor ot Vi Ligenza KY I won't be buying any more berries from Driscoll till this situation is corrected. nina minton CA I am a loyalty customer on Driscolls email list------so I am pretty upset that Driscoll would be this way!! Its awful!(and Makes me rethink my loyalty!
Paul Magee KY Jeff Barnard CA Leonard Friedman GA William Knudson WI Eva Cranstoun CA Joel Quaintance TX Kim Sellon NJ Carmela DeMorest NJ Bryan Moss MA We buy lots of Driscoll's berries and I'm disappointed to see how they are dealing with this situation. I ask that you support fair labor practices.
Mr. Anje Waters CA Every human being deserves a decent living Timothy Larkin CA Anita Fust ot
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Jane Callaway CA Danyeill Donahue AR KARMA for intentional GREED is coming and I hope You REAP what You SOW. darynne jessler CA Cat Tucher MO l der NJ Marie Weis WA Richard Booth MI Annick Clairin ot Daniela Tehfi FL Pamela Bryant NM Jan Tervydis IL Barb Rysdale ON Bob Miller CA I buy your berries every week! Laurie Bramlage CA Dita Holcmannova ot Dinoa McCoy CA Sandra Thompson OR Flora Pino García ot Kathryn McKinney TN Tuija Nupponen ot Mara Eisenstein IL Sumner Peirce FL Colin Jenkins ot Helene Harrison BC Miranda Leiva CA Amy DeWitt CO Barry Wilkinson AB Jane Nachazel CA JK Kibler NY Jonathan Boyne HI katie wood OR Chetana Knight CA Linda Cummings MO mike gautherat IA Eileen Conner PA Stephen Kubick CA Rae Pearson WA Jack Besanson NY USHA ZELMER CA Greed for more $$'s only fills the pockets of corporations at the expense of feeding the people who work and help the corporations make more $$'s. Let us have a balance where the workers are well taken care of so that they can continue to work for corporation but also serve the communities by raising their children well and well nourished. ------Thank you, ------Namaste, ------Usha Danielle Miele MA Diane Hendricks TX mark hollinrake NY
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Mary Snow OH Driscoll's: Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! David and Geri Turnoy WA Teresa Allen WA John Duddy AB Laurel Hieb AZ S. Owens TN Gail Vincent HI I. Engle NM Alex Zukas CA Clarice Glandon NY Elaine Livingston NY Boycott Driscoll Lucy Horwitz CA Dr. F Taylor SC David Wilson OR Maria Studer NY jacqueline victor CO David A. Smith CA David Land MD Diane Kunkel WA mark novotny IL pat shanahan NE if we can help the monarchs we can help the bees.. Barbara Mah CA Philip Noel CA Linda Tinsley FL John Schmittauer OH Catherine Wherley OH Kristyn MacPhail CO Madelyn Collins NY Elizabeth Dodd FL Debbie Mills IL Ryan Taylor ot SARA BOSTIC CA Grayfred Gray PA Charles Davids FL Sandra Mikulich MO c. sabathne IL Janet Busvek TN Joss Levy ot James Wightman NY Carla Weil---Martin AZ Raymond Gibson FL James Elliott WA Pamylle Greinke NY Josie Lilly OR Helen Hays OR Sandy Irving NC Barbara Hegarty NY RON STUART AZ
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Len Lorette OK Samantha Holmes NY Andrew Olsen CA Louise Collins MA Jamie Burks PA David George TN Leda Slattery MT Sharon Bourke NY Donata Compa---Waltz CA Mona Love AZ Here's an idea. The sakuma brothers work the fields for one month, while living in a tent. Evelyn Zerin FL Shane Worth DC Katherine Gilbert SC Claudia Mackey CA Slaughter, Sarah CA Golzar Arvin CA roger schmidt WI Peter Curia AZ JUSTICE FOR ALL. Kiu Leung WI Noemi Gyorgy ON Silvia Espino WA Karen Kirschling CA Nicole Everling MN Amy Anderson NY I will boycott your products and urge everyone I know to do the same until you start treating your workers like HUMAN BEINGS!!!! Sandra Atkins WI Laurel Hughes WA Karen Donaldson CA Jeanne Anderson CA Susan Walp CA Christine Smith NV Ashley Hamilton NS Doni Mae CA Rebecca Berlant NY vince Schubert ot Jessica Stackhouse PA Brenda Savard CA Jean Teach WA Ann Bein CA Shirley Charlton BC Jeff Brown NM Josal Diebold TX Dan Towers CA Robert Belknap NC Kathleen Siddons CT Lisa Grandstaff PA
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Maria Sena TX Don't go back to treating Farm Workers like you did in the 60's and 70'[s! Everyone should get paid a fair price plus have decent working & living conditions! Please be decent and treat them good! Shane Pyles PA Linda Myers PA Brent Rocks OR Nina Diamante CA Susan Heffernon TN Kathleen Keske NY Teri Flores MI This is a moral issue. jesse williams OH Ms Michaell Allen CA Mandy---Lee Stratton ON J J Moran TX Linda Prostko MI Christina Williams GA Albert Bechtel WA Catherine McLaughlin ot marty whittle CT Kevin Oldham NY Donald Lahti CA Margaret Faubion WA Drisoll's, --- Don't tarnish your name with unfair labor practices. Respect your workers and the workers of your sub---contractors! Mary Ann Jackson MI Seriously!!! You need a petition before you will do the right thing? Philip Winkels CA Cara Donahue FL Lynn Hale MI Stop treating workers like slaves. That died in the United States over 100 years ago. Caroline Tuiolosega AS Romeo Bertossi ot Nicole Loh ot Mia Lane BC Virginia Mendez FL Janet Handford RI jeanette capotorto NY Hans van Huijkelom PA Pamela Grace Freeman AZ John Delibos NV Elizabeth Morris Downie IL Jeanette McDonald DC Keith Augusto NV Christine Pizon NY M Port FL Joyce Bryant NH Steven Profit SC L.A. LOWE IA Colleen McMullen UT cheryl henley il
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Barbara Metz Metz MD No more Driscoll berries for me, unless farmworkers get a fair contract from Sakuma Bros. janet marbury CA Jim Procyk MB Adrian Vetter WA Farm workers,who provide food to the world, should be paid and treated fairly. It's the right thing to do. Charles Dineen MI Ed Robertson WA Ruth Clifford CA Howard Petlack FL jennifer jelinek WI Baker Smith WA Jerry Bates NY It is no secret that farm workers at Sakuma Brothers berry farm are abused of commonly accepted human rights and fair wages. I understand that Driscoll has issued a commitment to community and sustainability that is not reflected in its actions by buying product from Sakuma. I urge you to take action and inform Sakuma that you will not do business with them until they resolve their labor practices and wages with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Barbara Smith NJ Abraham Rozman NY tracy watson CA Peggy Patrick KY Joan Caiazzo NY R Wells CA Judith Little CA Linda Ferland NH Felicity Hohenshelt FL Lynn Olson NM Sarah Bauman NE Amber Simmons IL eric hurt OR roberta miller OH Sakuma is basically cheating its underpaid pickers and I won't buy your berries if you continue to support them. Carrie McCandless TX Mary Schleicher WA Jean---Luc Wilhelm ot Edwin Daniel FL Farm workers have been the victims of unfair practices for generations. This must end now. Saab Lofton WA Cindy Pagliuzza IL Danae Bloise HI Harriette Porter OK Pamela Scott CA Liz Fife DC Julianne Ramaker OR I won't be purchasing Driscoll's products in the foreseeable future. Rashid Patch CA jessica Wyn BC Denise Visintine MO
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms heidi reutiman CA Susan Saltzman Saltzman PA Gian Colista MI Manu Manu NY Judy Whitehouse AZ Susan Allen NC Farm workers should definitely receive fair pay and rights protection. All farm workers should strike until they receive what they need to support themselves and their families. It's the right thing to do! sylvie C ot Susan Schellenberg ON Rich Goldberg CA Laura and Zakin OH Jacques Elizabeth White BC Kristine Hart CO Martin Jordan IL Jean Cameron TX MR. & MRS. REVESZ NJ BRUCE Rebecca L. KY Please be kind to the EARTH, the environment and its people. Leslie Myers CA giuseppina bertani ot Martha Armas NY These are our rights as human beings. Ronald Peterson CA Allie Secor KY Gregory Freeman AZ William Leavy NM Peter Supersano NV Laura Muriel AB LEO G YOUNGER CA I've bought a plot of berries, especially raspberries, usually two boxes a week, for years, but only when organically grown. Driscoll's has been the most---pruchased brand, either from Whole Foods Arden or the Sacramento Natural Foods Co---op. Please honor the farm---workers who pick & pack the berries. Thank you. Roxann Ingersoll CO Barbara Bonfield WA Harry Wohlsein OR Alexandriah Lane OK Thomas Durst OR Janine McNamara AZ Helaine Greenberg NV Ann Nowicki CO James Roberts WA Dita Škalič ot Tom Pitman CA Danila Oder CA Carol Collins DE Alistair Bradley OH Michael Lampi WA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Regina Barnes MI Joseph Kaleel MI Rachel D AZ Cathy Seay WA Ingrid Landberg IL Love your berries hate the way you treat your workers. Gillian Devine ot Shary Bozied WA Larry McFall CA Natalie Mannering AR steven weber NY jayne Mcgurrin--- NV Feshold A. Wolf CA Tom Wenzel AZ Akankha Perkins VT sandra l lawrence TX Caleb Laieski VA Catherine Hill TN mary benshoof IL I buy lots of Driscoll's berries every week at Whole Foods. Please don't make me look elsewhere. Donna Fine AZ Paul Szymanowski OH Charles Kapela ME Lori Weber Weber TN Scott Taylor TX Melody Stevens SC Caryn Graves CA Javier Mendez HI ellene shapiro IL Gosh! Well, no more buying Driscoll's until the situation improves. Karen Matulina FL Stephen Keener KS Blanca Jimenez CA Julie Braden FL Cami Cameron WA Carolyn J Donovan CA sherry sapier FL Robert Weaver GA Giuseppe Mazzola ot sandra marr VT Marc Lionetti TX Mary Catherine Green WI Patricia Baley NV I buy your berries on a regular basis but won't unless this situation of worker abuse is set right at Sakuma Brothers Farm. Gary and Landgrebe CA Seraphina Sharon Wakefield IL b h MD Maria Heynen ON Devin Braden BC
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Rebecca Marshall TX Michelle Mitchell NC Rich Feit IL Susie Barton CA Ginger Young TX Sharon Longyear NY lejla B NH CT Bross CA Rachel Thomas FL Jesse Campbell SC Sarah Spica CO Arlene Baker CA NICOLE DASCALU SC Kathleen Basman ot Jeane Harrison IA Jennifer Keys VA Judith Bauer DC disappointed in Driscoll's! It's great to sell organic berries but we need to respect worker rights as well.. Thank you. Jennifer Lowans PA Nina Bellak CA Don Hyde NM Marilynn Kuhn ON Lynette Smith MI Kara Stewart WI Felicity Tanous ot James Columbia CA David Braden OK Carol Preston OK Margaret A CT Maria del Pilar Barranco ot Marianne Larkins---Strawn WA I was a Teamster. I will boycott Sakuma Brothers & Driscolls.
Laura Hays CA Marc Benedict WA sharon johnson IA Adele Mangipano LA J Beverly IL Roger McQuown FL Robert Fletcher WA Fair treatment of workers is better for the whole society. Blake Grrl CA Roxann Carmean AZ Alice Bowron MN Madame Anena Otii CA Cindy Chung HI Tracie Bosch MN Allison Castle IA sandrine cortet NJ Linda Loranger PA Wyman Whipple IL
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John Hettinger AK Do the right thing, all people are sacred and deserve respect. Sarah Freeh IL Alan Green TN bill and laurel Howatt MA Paul Fung NY Charles R Shelly NM barbara stamp MN Coe Tainio FL Erin Parker VA Gina Castillo CA Norris Wootton GA I am a senior citizen who thinks farm workers should be fairly paid and should have a contract. Cheryl Fisher OR Melissa Logan WA Llauren Peralta CA Bob Segal AZ Judy Moran FL John Limbach WI James Martin NY alan Stein NY christine Johnston BC Justice and basic Human Rights demand that workers get paid a fair price for their work and that promises are kept. We believe in unions and fair play to avoid boycotts and angry citizens. Sakura Vesely CA Richard Creswell CO Elaine Crawford MD Kate Lunn CA Lisa Harrod---Texeira IL Be fair!
Robert Rivera NY Joseph Rzeczycki TN Diana Ferrigno NY Richard Mason TX Neil Richards ON Frank A. Brincka NJ Merilie Robertson CA rudy Martinez CA Sarah Hanley OH I've bought your blueberries often. It's important to me that workers not be exploited. Please use your leverage with the Sakuma brothers to stop their abuses. Noah Link MI Justine Huffman DE Krista munster MN Alexander Wilson CO johnm murphy MO Sonny Hayes HI John Viacrucis MN Kara Horstman IN Steve Green SC i'm not going to buy any more Driscoll's berries till this is resolved!
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Jill Reifschneider MA Billie Williams PA kay mueller WA Frank Brisk IL Kim Wittenburg Kolbe ot David Ulibarri IL Arlene Spencer OR Driscoll, We will not purchase your berries, anymore, until Sakuma Brothers bargains in good faith with its laborers. Sharon Samuelson WI celeste flores KY Felicia Chavez CA Carrie Walker VT linda redenbaugh CA When people in business won't do what is right, the only way to make them understand is to hit them in the wallet They will listen then. Please do this for the farm workers and their families. Sandy McComb McComb MI Anitra Hayes WA Jessica Fesler NV Evelyn Haas PA Arnold Ruiz AZ Suzanne Salerno CA Joseph Collins MA Mary Salerno CA Julie Skelton MI Edward Butler NY Susan Hall GA Marisa Mercado CA Lorraine Williams IA Julianne Martinson WA Greg Zyzanski OH Robin Patten OK Larry Holman UT Kathy Engert IL Lydia LaFleur MA Rael Nidess, M.D. TX Justice will be done... the only question is how much grief will you cause before giving in? Tiobe Barron CA Jerome Alexander NY Catherine Haug MT Kathy Bergquist SD Joshua Swerda ON Russell Lyons IN m Markus CA Farm workers are indispensable! Donna Kowzan CA Anne---Marie Boyce CA Elaine Benjamin CA Mary Puckett NV Am Canada WI
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Eric West FL The more people who earn a fair wage the more money those people can spend to keep our economy humming. It makes sense to pay people for the work they do. Jessine Foss WA Jerzy Gruca WA Lisa u Fresne ON The world is watching! heather kuhlmann WA Peggy Moody MI Bert Morris NJ James Klein TX Charles Traitor NC Heloisa de Melo NY Deven Matlick WV Norman Frank CA Farmworkers deserve a living wage. Michael Crowden MO Hilary Malyon NJ everyone deserves fair pay for fair work Richard E Cooley NM Nicole Fountain CA karen stickney ME Nancy Petranto CA Anne Eisenberg Eisenberg CA I buy Driscoll berries and want the assurance that workers are being fairly treated. Patty Barga IN Paula Hellman FL Leslie Feuille DC Jacqueline Newman KY Gerald Bukosky OH Angie Froehlich AZ Julie Viergutz OH Shellie Rodriguez AZ I refuse to buy your products and I will tell everyone I know. We will not stand for this! Leland Long CO CHRISTINE HARVEY NY mary swilling SC Carrie Williams NY Marsha Vander Heyden NY
Dale Shero FL Anjali Athavale VA Janet O'Hare NY Pamela Turman NM Karen Kravcov AZ Malcolm Michael Stuart IL D Bell WA Christopher Deane BC Patricia Stevenson AB These workers, and all workers, need to be paid fairly and their rights need to be met. Sakuma Brothers, this is bad business practice and until I hear otherwise, will not be purchasing Driscoll products. www.fairworldproject.org 51
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Chadwick Wright OH Marian Heidel HI Melissa Schauder OR Amanda Yoder VA ELIZABETH PANUS NY Stacy Lesartre CO Barbara Viken CA Matthew Agen MA Karen Nielsen MN No more Driscoll berries for me until workers are treated fairly Daniel Hawley ID Meredith Barrioz SC Zak Eagle CT Christian Blum WA brian valcy TX Mary Kelley CA shad williams MA Candace Jarrett NV joseph rhymer TN Erin Carmean OR hugh tague PA Julian Yerena Jr CA David White ME Barry Medlin TN As a customer of Driscoll's berries this info saddens me, and I might change my purchasing habits based on this news. Cory Stone NH Rose Best WA Thornton Long NJ Toni Garmon GA Daniel Kasowitz BC WITHOUT WORKERS, THIS WORLD WOULD BE DOOMED. PAY THEM WHAT THEY DESERVE. Barry Kaufman CA Carol Tuveson NH Julie Takatsch NY Teresa DiForte NY Mark Koritz GA Paul Ghenoiu NY brian young RI Tsee Lee NY Gregory Nielsen AZ Julia Cranmer NJ Daniel Honorio MA nancy hartman CA Thuan vu CA brad kalita OR louis LaPierre MN Andrew Warren WY Christine Tindall MI Adelheid Pramhas MA Linda Woodward WA
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Diana Tiessen ON Minqiao Xie CA MaryAnna Foskett MA Patricia Orlinski AZ It's time to give workers their due, rather than making things harder for them. They do the work!! Brenda Kennedy TX Robert March OH Be a Good Grower! Be a Union Grower!! Tehama Simonis CA Martha W D Bushnell CO Please pay all your workers a living wage. ghazala yasmeen MD Arielle Black---Foley MA Gloria Linda Maldonado CA Clark Thomas CO Carlos Townsend CA People over profit :) Nick Ospa PA cbm Michaels NJ Dwight Barry CA Mary Rodriguez CA Tom Caine FL Bonnie Hearthstone VT donald taylor CA Sherrie Pizzo NY Mary Ann Baier MI shraika Martin CO Anne Greene MD Dawn Kucher MI mauricio carvajal ot mae basye NC Richard Tregidgo PA Aggie Monfette MI Janice Mackanic NJ Liz Reach MN margaret wilbur MA Robin Singer VT
Vivian Kasen NY Deb Cooney CA I will not buy anything from Driscoll's anymore, although I used to be one of their most loyal customers. I refuse RFID. I reject radiation with my organic food. Now this news of further abuse. Driscoll's is a pathetic brand.
Kathleen Wolfe WA Sheryl Samuel HI We are long time purchasers of your organic berries. Please do the right thing for your workers Karin Nelson AB carol mcfarlan CA Kim Kokett MN Elizabeth Bartosinski BC
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Helen Vradelis CA elaine brouwer WA Nicole Porto NJ Chris Jordan MA Do the humane act of fairly paying your hard working workers, you would be nothing without them Rita Caruso MN Deanna Van Grinsven WI I have been purchasing Driscoll's berries, but will consider alternatives in the future if workers rights are not respected by Sakuma Brother's Farm.
Uma Veloo HI Willard Barry VA lisa brady TX Betsy Ruhe KY Yvonne Benson WI Joanne Sieck MN Elizabeth Songalia MN I am a Driscoll's customer and a union member. I will not buy Driscoll's products again until this labor dispute is resolved to with a contract that is fair for the workers. Michelle Fournier ME Melissa Franco ON Judith Stege CA Please do the right thing to ensure fair working conditions for all, otherwise the berries will not taste sweet. Paul Morse CA Saran Kirschbaum CA Julia Wade IL Douglas Long IN Sandra Koritz NC Shannon Guidebeck FL Tom Emmott MI fritzi cohen WA Lauri Norton NM Lily Leung CA georgia and john locker CO I buy Driscoll's organic strawberries. Will NOT do so again until they stop purchasing from the Sakum Brother's farm. That way I am not supporting the farm owners either. Yvonne Wootten MI P Faith MI Richard Gray IL Erica Stanojevic CA Robert Forsythe CA Chris Benoit ON Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! Lucia You HI Suzy Star OR Jim Braun OH Victoria Dunch MA Ellie jensen FL Sarah Seufert MN Mary McCoy MD
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms amrit khalsa CA Shannon Faye AL carla caccia NC I will be happy not to buy any berries from Sakuma Brothers berry farm until all workers are provided fair wages and decent working conditions. This is not too much to ask for. Do the right thing. Laura LaVertu VA Craig Webster MA nina clausen NY Timothée Boutin QC Jeff Morris NY Denise Lenardson CA jose alvarado CO rosemarie k CA Gaila Dury CA Ruth Miller NC Ann Wasgatt CA Brenda wyrick TX Ellen Osborne NC Thomas M. Gallagher CA irene walker ot Ken Schulman IL Tracy S Troth MS Stacy Campbell BC Ryan Miller PA Susan Hacker MA Sharon Dietrich NY Patricia Hartigan PA
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Jerome Roth AZ Belinda Howell NY Margaret Remington WA Linda McKillip NJ Kimberly Tucker PA Steven Knoll WA Anne Huibregtse NY Nancy White WA ginger brewer FL James Scoville WI Justin Allen WA Kristian Glover NY Wolfgang Loera WA Lauren Jusek OH Randall A WA Kimberly Pratt LA Jan---Paul Alon NJ Jed Holtzman CA I will not be purchasing the omnipresent Driscoll's berries at my Safeway and Whole Foods until I hear that a fair contract has been signed with United Families for Justice. John sheeran ot
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms elaine hill CO Diana Saxon OR Mary Bushur MO Diane Huffine CO Mary Ann Wagner WI Jean Chin IL Dona Longacre CA Wayne Goin CO Kathy Marshall AR Andrew Arellano IL Richard edelman MA Joan Tolle MO Catherine Russell ON Jennifer Baker NC Dina Jacir MA Sarah Foster WI Haley Green IN Elissa Wagner CA Lisa Davidson CA I actually do buy Driscoll's berries whenever they are in season, and they are among the very best. I'm sorry to hear they're such lousy employers. They're even way beyond union---busting. Rhonda VanWingerden NJ we enjoy your berries but would like to feel good about the workers that are bringing them to our table. support a fair wage. thank you. esther garvett FL Susan Thurn WA I will be spreading the word to local grocery stores to ask where berries are from before purchasing, and not buying from Sakuma/Driscoll. Susan Maliska NC Jody Gibson IA Robert O'Brien FL Holly Hall CA Treat your workers fairly. What goes around, comes around. BE FAIR! Veena Singwi IL Walter Birdwell TX I have been supporting farmworkers since the days of the UFW Andras Bucsinszky NY Olga Stewart AB Jane Butler WV Drew Musgrave KY MaryRose Randall SC S E CO john martinez CA Burton Steck IL Pat Ross AZ AG Gilmore CA Janet Moser NY Clifton Bain NM Paula Chow VA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms M. K. Russell CA I will boycott your products until you pay your workers fairly and treat them with justice and respect and good working conditions. I will also tell my Facebook friends and Twitter followers to boycott your products until your suppliers comply with legal working standards. These laborers are the reason you are in business and making profits. Without them, you are nothing and have no business. This is the 21st century, and your customers will not tolerate wage or workplace abuse.
Fiona Priskich CA Tina Edmond CA Josh Wolf CA Susan Trivisonno CA gene polis AZ Patricia Brooks TX Darlene Pirrello CA All workers deserve a decent wage and fair treatment! Teri Wisdom WA Fair pay for hard work, works. Shelley Tea WA Beth Peterson NE Merideth Genin NY I remember boycotting grapes. Do I now have to boycott strawberries, specifically, Driscoll? Gregory Sparks KY D.A. ROY TX Gary Andrew NC Marlene Knight PA Sandy Kuntz OH Valerie Cranmer SC I will not buy your products ever again! Jason Costine OK Frank Asturino PA Cindy Abernathy UT Driscolls has a responsibility. Help the workers, or we don't buy from you. Sonya Myers FL Jerry Amos NH Fair wages for the people now. Michael Potter ot Jamie Radley CA I urge Driscoll's to stand in support of farmworkers. Shelbie Shaw MO Dave Fronske AZ Douglas Cooke NY mark lopes NJ Karena Kilcoin OH Irene Willey WA Janet Latham MA Boycotting Driscoll's berries starting NOW! Barbara Martin TX Matt Johnson MN
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Jan Lavis ot Reevyn Aronson CA Misty McIntyre CA Carol Lynn Jones WV Jan Lavis ot Mary Ann Harwell NY Elisabeth Price NM JOHN PASQUA CA Tracy Feldman NC Becky Sands WA Carlotta Ripley MI Jayna Williams CA Helen Greer AZ Chad Kostes CA Jan ODonnell OR Peter Sardellitto CA Karen May KY Joseph Robustelli NC Paul Browning BC Deborah Boomhower NY Gordon Sheidler WA Kenneth Chin---Onn FL pam roussell TX River Quillen FL Tania Malven AZ Do not force us to start a boycott of Driscoll! Lorretta Marcel CA Maya Kurtz CO Anello Arne CA Carolyn Massey IL Victoria Spiers CA Jim Phillips MN Savannah Hawkins IL Lola Reed OK patrick scarry MO Tara O'Neill NY rudy zeller CA Douglas Olson MN Andrew Greb NV Guy Morin AB Amanda Nordes CA Carlen Lovejoy MN Dallas Windham TX Linda Querry IL Rita Petruccelli NJ C. Renee Emrick OH Pat Annoni UT Louisa Gluck CA Katherine Tildes MA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms sherrie munday CO We won't be buying your berries until you negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! WE the people have spoken... annette bryant MO Devin Henry NY Timothy Freiday MD Teresa Donaldson NY Lori Visioli MA Kevin Hughes CT Jennifer Anderson--- WA Medau Carol Howell ME Charlene Lauzon WA Jim Burns MT Louis Salerno CA Debra Livingston VA Joyce Bartels MI Ira Abrams IL We buy Driscoll's organic products and are concerned about the integrity of your company. Paula Miller OH Marc J Mancini PA Andrew Altamirano CA Angela Smith WA Pat Long CA Please be respectful of our health Kelley Jewett MN Margot Del Prete FL Cheryl Cooper ot david kissinger NJ Leona Will FL Iris Chynoweth CA James Spencer AZ NY labor needs to be honored. Wealth needs to be distributed more evenly. Jason Steadmon NV H.D. Horton NH Karen Zedek IL Lorraine Grasso NY Lesley Nelson CO EVERYone deserves fair wages and working conditions. --- Please suspend purchases of Sakuma Brother's Berries until they treat farm workers fairly. Heather Servais WI Janelle Murphy Murphy TX Gary Schwartz NC Remember love. Act from love. Gail Linnerson MN Linda Hertz VA ingeborg glier NV Kyle Peterson MI Krystal Weilage MT Maureen O'neal OR Aaron Senegal CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Margaret Sellers CT Kristina Glover SK LFJ Gill OR With all the injustice in the world, shouldn't the USA be among the FIRST to do the right thing? Esther Lawson OR Sumana Raychaudhuri NY Jackie Burton AZ Just do the right thing please! Star Star NH Clayton Jones WA Jackie Wallace WA Michael Watson NC Laura Vinokour CA Chris OMeara CA I'm not buying Driscoll's until this situation has a fair ending. Dietrich Mark Teig NY Megan FitzSimmons WA Alexine Pope FL Patty Linder CA Jena Reid CA Danah Woodruff CA John Herberg OR Kris Head CA Jane Gale CA Michelle Lee NC Elizabeth Wilkes GA Mary Esther Gilbert AZ Joseph Keeney OR Pam Denman KS Deb Stringham MA MICHAEL KAIBEL KAIBEL OR
David Rangel CA Ellen Adler OH Tina Ann CA Richard Fitzhugh NY Celia Franklin CO Mia Dravis CA Jackie Tryggeseth WI Andre Cavalier NJ Julie Ford CA Rita Carter IA I like Driscoll berries a lot, but not at the expense of farmworkers and their families! Doug Walter CA Jean Mansour CA erin garcia CA Laura Leong OR Barbara Abersold ID sam eisenbach MI Barbara Mauk CA
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Hagit Halperin NY Brad Nelson CA Jean Keller CO Diane Trelenberg AB Workers deserve a fair deal! Dave Smith CA Jacqueline Archer Crestwood Jean Terry ot Everyone deserves a living wage for a days work. Zach Glanz CA Paola viteri NY James Mickle CA Rebecca Picton OR Amber Gilchrist CO Steven Verschoor CA Jose de Arteaga DC Lauren Murdock CA Kwayana Alaf CA Pamala Thomas CA
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Bonnie German MI Colleen Volk AB Lyn Leeuw FL pedro baptista FL Sandy Dalcais NY DAWN LIOUTAS ON Ann Hossler KS Susan Washington ot I do not live in the United States, but totally support this petition. It is a problem that does not have national boundaries. Susan Teshu MA I buy a lot of Driscoll berries, but will no longer do so until I learn that this situation has been resolved in favor of the farmworkers. Dennis Kaplan OH Cathy O'Leary Carey CA kathleen bovello MD Elizabeth De Wreede WA Farm workers deserve more than they ever get paid and ruin their bodies in the meantime. Elizabeth Stange IL Christine M.C. Money NJ virginia wood ME Knight Knight CA Laura Rivero---Fisher CA I am extremely disappointed. Driscoll, I expect that you do what is right and d. emand that the Sakuma Brother's negociate a fair contract
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Michelle Ramos FL Do the right thing. The USA has better and higher standards than jipping people of a fair wage and fair working conditions for their much needed hard work! Stop supporting employers who rob their employees!
Jamee Warfle NC Gary Thaler MA Jelica Roland ot Lisa Pavlock MT mike miller AZ Philip Bryer OR Gary Watkins AL Kirk Bails MI Susan Scow MN Bettina Bowers TN john oda CA
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Naya Castiñado NY Ricki Newman CO Mary Will CA Timothy Goodman CA Julia Briggs WA ira josephs josephs PA Yes, think Domestic Fair Trade! Mariko Yannacone FL josette Jackson NJ Stephanie McCarren GA Tomas Monter OR Joanne Olafson AB O. Ruiz NJ Lisa Stone TX James Hipp WA Terry Geier VA Louella Ash UT Please work with your labor. Treat them fairly. Daniel Jacobs MO Mercedes Lackey OK Keith Thompson MN cerah hedrick CO Randall Webb OR Kathleen Kuczynski CA Jacqueline Fredericks CA Brian Hitchcock CA Ray Abrahamson WA Martin Wolf CO Gladys Porter CA Krysta Williams OR Please do what is right and honor the workers' hard labor with fair wages and rights protections. I won't be buying driscoll berries until this situation is resolved in the workers' favor Michael Shores AZ Sally Sheck WA Elene Gusch NM
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Lynne Glaeske CO Nancy Caponi CA Sarah Palm IL Nicolas Herrera IL Charles Lange OR Summer Stevens ID Steve mcarthur Mcarthur MT Fair livable wages are the bedrock of a just society. Do the right thing! Cigy Cyriac UT Kevin Darcy WA Margret Head NV y t WA brandon ross IA Nicole Edwards YT Stephen Barber FL Ronen Hartfeld CA Henry Schwartzman NY Laura Lackner MN Linda Ulvaeus OR Penny Barney MI Edie Bruce CA Linda Gibb CA c g CA James Deshotels MO Kathryn Richardson AZ Thomas Wilmore WA Christopher Lish CA William Maarsman BC Elizabeth ODear TX Diane Turley NV Sit down and talk with the people that work for Sakuma Brothers . carol hiltner WA Anne Schreibe WA Jim Steitz TN Hadiyah Abdul---Mu'min CA Felix Prael CA diane olson CA All of a sudden you are blanketing the TV airwaves with commercials. I had never seen any before. I figure you're are in trouble and you are going to try to advertise your way out of them. Laurel Cline CA Mary McGaughey OR What if you had no workers to harvest your crops? David Bryan NY Steve Ford WY VERONICA HAYES MI Erik Schnabel CA Thomas Nelson PA Joseph Kohn MD HI Bridget Allen CA in los ángeles, i typically purchase your berries 1---2 times per week. please take good care of the workers who pick your product, and i will continue to buy them. ------thank you! Mary Tripp---Doss AZ
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Evangeline Chinn CA Diane Beeny NJ Every worker deseves fair wages and decent working conditions! ------Do the right thing, Driscoll!! James Berkheimer CA Crystal Conklin OR Robert Schmidt HI Do the right thing by your consumers and the farmers who are giving their hard labor to a company that you buy from and the company isn't honoring them. Show them you need them to do the right thing to get your business. Joanie Murphy CA Karl Mortimer--- ot Murphy Cheryl Tieken CA Judi McManigal CA I am a weekly customer of Driscoll's. I value your quality --- please value the quality of your labor force. jennifer verhelst MI dogan ozkan AK Tlaloc Tokuda HI Shell Lavender AZ Rene Suarez CA Eric Scheihagen TX andrew wolniak NM JoAnn Baker Paul CO What's FAIR is FAIR. Support YOUR workers! Michael Gnat NY Y Saavedra CA Perry Johnson IL Ruth Dyke CA Where would you be without hard working people? Respect what they do & give them a fair contract. Dominick Falzone CA GEORGE BUDD CA Vittorio Tedesco AZ Zammarano Julian Dörmann ot Sueanne Clark UT Maryellen Redish CA mary beer ot Jeanette Schandelmeier ID
Susan Jardine BC My buying decisions are large part predicated on fair employment practices. I will not longer purchase any of your products until this situation is resolved fairly. Gloria Badella CA Carol Ng CA Robert Weingart OH Molly Schminke CA Anita Wald---Tuttle CA Carol Kuzdenyi CA Brendan Lee OR c le CA www.fairworldproject.org 64
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Carole Abrahams NY We all need clean berries. Indira Smith CA martina sparfeld ot Jane McLennan ot Bonnie Breckenridge CA ALL workers deserve a fair wage and decent working conditions! My buying decisions are large part predicated on fair employment practices. I will not longer purchase any of your products until this situation is resolved fairly. Simone Davie ot Ulbe Schoemaker BC Gary Weaver CO Please respect the workers right to organize, Lanelle Lovelace CO Anthony Munger NY Christina Roman FL arline king OR melek korel ot Melody Safken CO John S Pearson IL Lakeba Fondren CA Gjorgji Dzolev NY elizabeth cronin NY patrizia urscheler ot sharon powell MN Katharine Poulter ot Nicole Brooks GA Stu Farnsworth MN SO, I will not buy any Driscoll products until they ensure that ALL suppliers treat workers fairly and pay living wages. Beck Roller FL Lori Siekierda MI John Zahos IL James Hogue MO Marie Karlsson ot Jennifer Mayor VT Matthew Genaze MA Paul Aubert CA Theresa Siefert FL David Hand NY Michael F. Kolassa NY john rogers HI Cheryl Kirby FL MJ Baumann WI sascha hinze ot Carol J. Painter NY Peter Viglia II CO Fred Bevis FL D. Chalfin MA Monica Woll FL We support small farmers by belonging to a CSA and also as members of an organic buying club! Someday we will have time to tend our own garden.
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Jaime Fernandez Jr IL Britton Saunders WI sheila dempsey NY Sarah Cullen FL Danielle Vela TX Cara Kulwicki NY Randy Hinthorn WA Please act in good faith with the workers at Sakuma Brothers who want nothing more than to be paid a fair and livable wage. Pressure Sakuma to do the right thing by their workers. George Stadnik NY Rejean Dion VA Vicky Matsui WA DeeAnn Stenlund MN Giovanni Mastracchio NY Brian V AB Cherie Tyczka NY Katie Thompson MD PENELOPE MAZZA IA Danny Briggs ot J F MI Mark Fox IA Please, pay them a good wage. Your berries are worth it. Nancy Hiestand CA Perhaps I need to stop buying Driscoll's. Jeome Onufer WA I am a frequent purchaser of Driscoll's organic strawberries. I won't buy any more of Driscoll's berries until this issue is resolved. It would have been nice to buy my wife a couple pounds of strawberries for Valentine;s day. Oh well. Elizabeth Merz MN claudine agai FL Sarah S VA Dana Bleckinger OR Brett Peters CA Marissa Hylton NY Kimie Fujimoto WA Patrick Denevan OR Kelly Coughlin OH Stephanie Oliver CA Dana Chapman NJ julie jokisch MO Johanna Cummings NY T. K. McCranie CA
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Deb Shatzkin NM I buy Driscoll's organic raspberries from --- Albertson's. I will stop if you don't negotiate a fair wage contract. NK Acevedo MA Tom Nulty Jr CA Cynthia Griffin ON Tiffany Newton MN Nancy Gutierrez CA Karen Fletcher TN Wayne Pfeffer MO Kathy Bakane GA Kate Mullan FL j koesler TX Michele Robbins CA I buy Driscoll's organic strawberries on a regular basis. If Driscoll's continues to buy from farmers that do not provide a fair wage I will discontinue buying the berries. Steve Breyman NY Patricia Whitehead NV doris kanter FL Steve Morrow LA Laurie Neill CA Katherine Bissell Cordova IL
Querido Galdo CA Kelsy Lakshmanan CT Pamela Kell MO Marjorie Wing MI Grace Strong MI Alicia Markus OR e neiman MD Michael Cole CO Alison Fortner MO Lisa Smith WY David Carnese OR Astrid Keup ot David Mayer WA I support the laborers in receiving the pay they deserve, not the companies that profit off their hard work. Laborers who break their backs in the fields should be paid MORE than those people who sit behind desks doing very little that is truly productive. joya Newcombe ot e Estes CA I buy Driscoll berries and I support the farm workers. Ronda Downey CA duane underwood OR Harry Corsover CO Joyce Hawes VT Victoria Armigo CA cheryl whittaker PA Felicity Botwinik MA Barbara Como AZ Mike Nestor OH
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Ashly bargman FL Cindy Campbell--- CA Carney Katherine Prince MA Robert Sandgrund NY April Barcenas CA Bryce Robeson IN Ray Jones VA Linda Curtin CO Herb Zetley TX deBora cousins FL Katarina Schulze IL Teresa Collins CO dina frigo IN Sigmund Finman PA Pam Krimsky NY Everyone who works must have the right to eat, feed his family, take a day off once a week, get healthcare, when needed. Clivonne Corbett OR Danya Kuperstein MA a a KY Isabel Martorell ot Cate Harrison VA Bobbi Lempert HI Marisa Castillo CA D. Blewett FL Beverly Foster PA Amanda Percy CA Matthew Anderson WA K Capp NM cynthia molinero CO Cathy Hope NM Lauren Fenenbock TX Mary Young CA Stanford Neering UT Nicholas Sherman LA Cami Mitu ot Betty Walters CO Sandra Dudley OR Luke 10:7 Is the laborer not worthy of his hire? Andrew Cowan NJ Rick Wood NY gildo teixeira MA David Batt CA catherine keys WA I am now boycotting Driscoll's berries until further notice, and will encourage everyone I know to do likewise.
Denise Scholz NJ Michael Kitchen MI I like Driscoll's products. I am sorry to have to stop using them because of this unfairness to farm workers. Fix it now.
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms maurizio medda CA The I owner you slave mentality --- HAS TO STOP !!! Pay farm workers honest wages and --- decent working conditions !!! katie commons OR Jennifer Severson CA Elene Syv AB Without their labour your harvest declines proportunately. Why not respect their needs anc grant them the dignity they deserve???? Phoenix Hawelu---Hills NY Fair pay for all!!! James Graley NY Hardworking people, who know no other life than farmwork, should be rewarded for their interminable, tireless efforts. Treat the people who allow for your prosperity fairly. DM Graminski NY Please stop purchasing Sakuma's produce which is obviously inferior and less than desirable. Why else would you agree to purchase products from a company that does not keep it's promise for fair wages and decent working conditions. Ariel Amara CA adrian landon NY z k CA Your products are carried in my local stores. I will be following this campaign and alerting those in my circles. I support the workers. bill wood CA andree b. NY josh elliott WA fair treatment of farmworkers is a value that your consumers demand. you can be ahead of the curve, or be dragged behind as the organic food movement continues on its trajectory. Janet Carmichael KS Nadia Spencer FL Suzanne Vandenheede NE Thomas Dorsey MA Gail S FL Without the pickers you have no product to sell. Treat them as you would your own family. Georgia Braithwaite AZ Lucinda Chavez ID Where is the concern for the workers---the human machines that keep their business flowing? Where is the respect and understanding that they have actual lives and don't park their bodies In a garage like farm equipment after work!! Mary Moon NY Faithe Earnest PA I will not buy your products if you continue this practice! Susan Gancher FL I can taste that your food has been altered and now I find out you don't want to pay fairly. Gee what's the matter with you. Marie---Jeanne Leduc QC sue shave NM Annette Novak CA Jani Sarai ot Bethany Campbell NY These workers deserve fair pay & decent working conditions!!! Christie Childs CA As a consumer of your organic products, this news confirms my doubts over how Driscoll's operates. If humans that work in its berry fields are not respected, why should I think the company respects organic standards? I will be actively seeking a new organic berry supplier that's more local and knows how to treat its employees fairly!
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Carlos Alén PA Scott Grinthal CA maureen curran ot Susanne Smith ON jason husby MN deborah beck NY Ewa Piasecka ot Donna Blue KY April Allen CA We all need a livable wage ! Peyton Johnston MD David Arntson WA GILBERT MARTINEZ GA Chari Holt MD � Astell ot Nigel Maurizi CA Dea Irish CO Amy Wolk CO E. Wyborny IA Fair practice is fair practice. Give the workers what is humanly fair. Richard Nielsen CA Randi edwards MI cynthia Faber CO Megan Faircloth DE Diane Cole KY Colette Allt OH Janet Anderson CA Dan Munsee CA Jack Bowley GA
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Helen Elias NY Johanna Hansen CA Robin Tyzio WA Nick Abramson CA David Angus MT Boycott Sakuma Brothers!!! Billy Cohn CA Barbara Hall NM Alie Armijo NV Salme LIBERGE NH MARCEL O'Sullivan CO Do the right thing Driscoll. Support --- hard working people who deserve Brett living wages and decent conditions. Linda Henning CA Diana Kleidon IL John Nelson NY Jessamine Belland MI Gail Sullivan NY Henry Newhouse OR Marcia Hoodwin FL Dominique Ryba CA
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Margaret Denison OR Carol Hill SC sUSAN MICHETTI WI young klessig IL richard fabio NY Terry Andrews TX Leslie Sharlock PA Raymond Murphy MI Treat them with dignity and I will buy your product! Robin Hudson FL Michael Lewis WA Purnima Barve PA les roberts CA Lynn C. Lang MN Sherrill Futrell CA I can't eat your berries as long as you buy them from these guys. Eva Zucker NY Jean Bolson KS Rosita Aranita HI Support fair wages for these poor farm workers! Leah Barbera PA Michael Heller PA Nicole McAtee OH Robin Spaziani WA Leigh Clark CA Mike Everett TX Heidi Shol MN Robert III Gehrman MN Nicole Johnson OR Michelle Lerner NJ william stanton NJ robert sampson WI Doug Engh AB Sandra Dryden TX Frederick Hamilton CA Art Hanson MI Donna Hippensteel IL Kathryn Seib Vargas NY Allan Post CA Don't underpay workers, whose efforts and labor supports you and your business. Provide fair wages, and treat them as you would want to be treated.
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Hannah Eaton CA Abigail Lovelace CA Sharon Wojno SC Nora Roman CA Justice. Candy Bowman CA Jennifer Kachmar CA Mary Morris CA Loretta Cannon ID I will have to find a new berry, which would be sad. Up till now, I've preferred Driscoll's berries. But this news is disappointing. Please don't get berries from Sakuma bros anymore. Thanks so much! Karen Dushek WI Julie Willford FL n. powers MO Cheryl Arthur VA Amy Christenson CA Shirley Schlichter TX I don't live in this state, but it still concerns me because this is America, the Land of Freedom and that should not mean that some people are free to not honor an agreement with workers. So, this is an excellent way to get your attention that corrections need to happen, right away. Please, I, and others, are taking their time because we care about people, especially when they are trodden on for not good reason. Please, can you show Americans are good people, and stand up for them? Thanking you in advance.
L R CA Tara Huber MD Ana Ramos WA Elizabeth Conlan ot Jessie Hinton IL Negotiate fair with the farm workers. I will stop buying your berries and tell customers I see in the stores ad people I know that you have failed to negotiate a contract in a long time. Ruth Kay Souder PA virginia greenwald CA greenwald Blake Wu CA Michael Powis ON Beth Braun IL Margaret Koren CA Nitza Santos FL Raja Anderson CA Alex King TX Linda Wilscam CT Barbara Fry CO
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms nando A. WA the ignorance of men is the enemy of mama nature ------why is it that the most educated people commit the worst crimes against nature and humanity? ------men has turn earth into a painful place...this means you Diane Mojica CA rox colby TX Lana Schmitt IL Walter Schmitt IL Michelle Emry CO Olivia Lim CA Katherine Holmes MI Jennifer Zeller CA Susan Swan CA I am counting on your leadership. Andy Lupenko CA margaret conyers ot A fair go, do unto others as you would like to be treated yourself or a member of your family. No one wants to work hard for abysmal wages.
Allison Jones CA Ulle Koiv NY Nicole Green WA Marty Adams WA Dana Wilson VA Ellen Cohler CA James H Jorgensen IA Kara Black WA Angelene b. PA Andrea Wakelin ot Mary Detrick FL Steve Voliva WA Natalie Hanson MI Sandra Smith WA Fair Trade LA Harper CA Carol Claus GA Vasileios Grigoriou ot Casey Arlen FL Stand up for the wonderful quality of your berries. Thank you. lois nottingham AZ Juha Cantori NY Melinda McClimans OH John Curtis DC M Andrews NY Cheryl Laskasky IL Stevie Slaney TX M Busch NJ Patricia Risso PA Clifford Weiss NJ Sara Rostampour MA Carol Miller MI amanda Burns NC
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Cynthia Pileggi CO All workers must be treated fairly, farm workers included. Please cease doing business with Sakuma Brother's until they have a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justica! thank you Loree M. Rice OK Nicolette Gascon IL Jackie Critser OR Katya Kennedy CO Michael Sayers ot Linda Wright OH Kevin Gershom Sicard OR Kelly Hurlbut CO Elizabeth Christine NM Driscoll's organic berries have been my favorite AND I am will not to have them for a time in order to support farm workers. We have to figure out how to provide a good living for farm workers... doing otherwise is not a moral option. Everyone must be fed! Cheryl Joseph ME Karin Anderson CA Galicia outes NY Tristan Quinn--- NY Thibodeau Tomas Madrigal WA Boycott Sakuma! Union Contract Now! Janet Miller CO Felicia Dale WA Maurice Foisy WA Aggressive treatment and refusal to deal fairly with workers is a betrayal of the historically good name of Sakuma. linda letnick BC Colin Maloney WA NM Porter MI Jason Holland WA I will not purchase ANY Driscoll's product until they terminate all contracts with Sakuma Bros. for the duration of the labor dispute. Susan Swain ME Caroline Birer ot Kim Sanders OH Martha Brennan DE Patricia Gray OH lea stabinski PA Margaret Keene OR Paul Riek OR I will not buy Driscoll's products until you stop purchasing from Sakuma. Kathryn Hardage TX Nancy Fanara---Berrian MA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Ruth Anne Dayton PA Anna Gherard LA Marge Schneider CT Sammy Low WA Tony Snearly AR Tom Brown NJ Julia Natvig IA Adrienne Gibbs CO Every human deserves a fair wage and humane working conditions! Stop taking advantage of uneducated workers. Dr. Alexander Henrich ot Karen Jacobs FL Leslie Dee MN Nancy Amodeo CA Venice Rembold TX betty buchanan CA Katherine Williams CA Jane Serlin CA kathy lee CA I will not buy Driscoll products and tell all I meet not to and rally local 99 cent stores to not carry products that don't respect the people. ROBERT&MARY SWAIN MI 'tis obvious Doris Overby VA Stop dealing with Sakuma Bros. until they negotiate a fair contact Nora Lincoln IL Claude Robert QC Tika Bordelon WA Cathy Muha MI Veronica Petrus FL Dominic Armstrong WA Sarah Ragalyi ON Esther Conrriquez CA Ariana Milman WA Victoria Davis CO Jacqueline Wright HI Ilya Turov CA Mary Ann Schroeder WA Nemah choubaquak WA All people should be paid a living wage and have a safe work environment. Mike Vanlandingha KS m Kate Smith OR Everyone deserves a fair wage! --- Kate B. Smith jane liddell ON This issue may influence whether I will continue to buy from Driscoll's. Jim Ewing TX Kari O'Driscoll WA Mary J. Schroff WA Lois Danks WA Liisa Wale WA Sherry Hanbury NV Pay the workers their Fair Wages for their "Back---breaking" work!!!
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Angelica Guillen WA farmworkers are human beings! they are not tools for Driscoll and agri--- farmers to take advantage of. Since the farmworkers went on strike in 2013, I have not bought any berries whatsoever. I am committed to Familias Unidas por la Justicia's struggle. Ryan Wisnor OR Kelly Shilhanek WA Patti Santangelo WA Please support the farmworkers. Ana Alvarez FL Rebecca Clark OR Shelby Solomon CA jean normandin QC Edwina Smith CA Elizabeth Sather CA Alexandra Stefanovic FL jeanette zawacki IL Brittany Morgan CA Jesse Rusoff PA Sarah A Waller NY Lynn Lay TX donye sacco DE Janiece Staton OR Mauricio Ayon WA Mikayla Kravetz NY Rochelle Foran IN Kelly Martin---Vegue WA Aletha Vengco CA Delia Gordon TX K. N. Miller MI Jennifer Schnick NY Giselle Carcamo WA Please honor labor and the human rights of hardworking families Doug Rawling DE Ida Zamora AZ How about picking some berries for a couple of hours? I bet you would then realize these laborers are not getting paid enough for the hard work they do. N. Radwan OH Nathan Bombardier WA stand up for farmworkers! Nancy Leefe NH Cassie Bishop OR Margaret Johnson CO Robert Borrego CA Children of low paid farm workers suffer from mental illness in school because of family stress at home. STEVE FONDILLER NY FONDILLER Angela Montez CA Linda Mills ON Rebekah Snodgrass WA Susan Krause NY Justin Greer IL Adam Williams MI www.fairworldproject.org 77
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Gail Veiby MA pierre lemieux QC Respect ! Miles Patterson MO reina sanchez CA Maryrose Wilson MD sophie flammier ON Judith Haglund Haglund FL I buy Driscoll berries but will no longer unless workers are given a fair wage and rights. Labor is hard! You wouldn't do it. juliet perron MA Jennifer Dean WA Ashley Hufnagel MD Br John Mahoney MD Susan Kennedy KY Rosemary Maziarz IL jr s WI Amy Holt NY April Torres CA Leyte Jefferson CT s mcnamee BC I am stopping buying Driscoll's products because they are currently associated with farmworker abuse. Kathie Kelly GA emily marshall CO Mary Collins IL Please stop purchasing from Sakuma Bros. I will no longer buy your berries until the United Families for Justice gets a fair contract. Please do the right thing. deanna munson OR Sonia Liskoski PA Your berries are great! I'll keep purchasing them when I know you are practicing fair labor policies! Angelica Palomo IL Leland Brun NY Have bought Driscolls in the past and now wonder whether I should continue. Geraldine Ring NY Gloria Apellaniz CO Catherine von Ruden CA James Nowack NY Judy Goldman CA romina soria WI Joel Finley NY Dan Brook CA Be fair. lenore silverstein NY John Edminster NY Erika Kane OR kevin eisenstaedt CA Stewart Rosenkrantz FL Albert Jablonski NJ Need to take care of our fellow man. Push the Sakuma Brothers to pay a fair wage. BOYCOTT YOU WA Carlos Cunha NY Stan Banos CA Fairness Counts!
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Kathy Reese CO James Campbell OH David Shelton NC Spencer Dean CO Donald Lancaster PA Jackie Seaman IL Harold Leahy OH Donald Sweat CA Lisa Ramaci NY alisha purdy WI Ingrid Stromberg AZ Karen von Kluge MI Angele Smith LA lisa gilling NJ Jaye Duncan CO Marci Kelley MO Cynthia Sanderson ON Kerby Miller MO Mandie Birchem CO Thomas Rippolon NY Beverly Williams OR ellen walsh FL Natalie Cartledge CO florence klein CA i buy a lot of driscolls but will no longer unless driscolls stands up for workers' rights. john fago VT Betty Gilson MA Leslie Moran NJ Jack Balsley TX Diana Law WA Josephine Girardin NY Kathi Henline UT Diana North CA Patrick Bosold IA I do purchase Driscoll products from my local natural foods grocery store, but I'm going to have to stop doing so until this is resolved. Please settle this quickly. Colleen Lenihan WA Kathleen Carr CO mervat soto CA Tyler Cook MN Barry Zuckerman NY Janet Hawkes ME Y. Machado FL Stephanie Stout TX Jordan Temkin NY Janice Goodman NM sally abrams CA Barb Schmenk OH Michael Martin IL
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Eileen Welch IL Ellen Franzen CA I have been Driscolls customer, but I will refrain until you resolve this issue. Fair treatment of workers is very important to me, since I work too. Rev. E. Lloyd AZ Nancy Newton IN Show moral, humane leadership. Support fair labor. Cynthia Bage CA I will not purchase Driscoll's products until Sakuma treats its workers fairly by negotiating with labor organizers. Steven Gaylord CA Jean Ames VA Susan Hodges GA I will not purchase Driscoll's berries until this dispute is settled and the farm workers have a contract that spells out fair wages and decent working conditions. Catherine Rodgers WV Lawrence Plagman OH Donald Buckthal IN SD Murray DE Jeffrey Teitelbaum CA larry powers ME Carlee Singh OK Jan Modjeski SC Linda Kolakosky CA Jim Rice TX I was buying 3 cartons of Driscoll's strawberries a week until I became aware of this problem! Have been buying other brands for 5 months and urging everyone I meet to do the same as well as discussing the matter with the local Kroger people. Don Simmons IA Jay Atkinson CA Bunny Daubner VT Fair wages and decent working conditions a MUST!! carla tevelow MD Harold Johnson OR Lucy Howard MD I will not buy your products if you refuse to respect those who labor for Driscoll's and Sakuma Brothers' Farms. Do the right thing and be progressive! Negotiate with the workers and pay them a living wage. You are then giving back rather than just pretending to. Right now you are stealing justly earned wages and benefits from your workers and are therefore creating more poverty. Be fair and create more economic prosperity for all instead!
Eric Baratta NJ Rita Rice OH I have been buying their organic strawberries for quite some time, but now I will not and just go to some other brand until they set this right. Hartson Doak HI Allyson Unzen ID
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Brandon Barnard MD Daphne Lambright FL Therese Johannesson CA Christine Roane MA r albani FL Shawn O'Grady WA Janice Long BC Brandi T NV bill holt TX Thomas Costello PA Marilyn Grotzky CO Garry Sullivan CT v l FL M.Sharon Gambocorto NY Tammy Swoboda IN Suzy Sternlicht CA Debra Payne CA Troy Tackett WV Debbie Williamson AR T Bennett WA Fred Thaller UT Curt Jopling SD Lindee Taha MA Valerie Mehring WA Cato Dubo HI D.Wiese Jones OR David Allen CA Judith Waters HI Do the right thing please! Support fairness for farmworkers in a way that their employers will listen to ... don't give business to suppliers who are unfair. I will be watching...as a consumer of your products, and will continue buying your brand if you do the right thing. Aloha, Judy Bill Ridgeway PA Michael Aceto NC Fair wages now. Matthew Franck NJ Sylvia Percy TN Carolyn Roney MI Kevin Chamberlin MA Jill Lubin NJ Marlene Waite CO Maria Nevels NM Ann Brochhagen NY Lauren Fraser OH Debora Sayre CA meg gilman NH Tamara Heikalo QC John Bisaha PA Malakay Betor WA Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ------Martin Luther King, Jr. Virgil Hutson TN
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Johnny Sauter CA I guess Cesar Chavez's dedicated work has done nothing for Farm Workers. When will justice be served ? Jack Kincaid CA Sally Hammond BC Financial pressure has always been an honorable (and often effective) method for helping to bring fairness to work situations. jim dixon VA Jamie DeVries CA Please follow up on what you say and support fair wages and humane working/living conditions! Karen Graham MI Frank Divonzo PA Laura Kratzer IL I was buying a container a week of your organic berries, I would hate to switch after all this time. Sue Kilduski IL Angela Perstein WA sheridan ryder CA William McMullin MI Melissa Munoz CO jonathon montag CO Dustin Del Toro UT Do the right thing and stand up for the people who do the hard work. Melissa Lovett OR Kevin Leonard WA Stephen Girard MN Debbie Tenenbaum CA Marthea Jager MI Annette Rosewich BC Yseult Biwer CA Julia Carson CA I buy Driscoll berries and I will stop until a fair settlement is reached with the farm workers. James Crawford MD Diana Yun MD J Pizzo CA Margaret Larrick WA "Maggie" Rhonda Beardsworth RI Judith Arnold NY Carole Plourde MA Not negotiating and underpaying workers just proves how little respect Sakuma Brothers has for it's workforce. ------I'm disgusted by this behavior and have absolutely no use for a company that treats its employees this way. Brenda Barnetson CA All those organic commitments years ago should include fair employment for the farm hands supplying your produce. CT Pam McKenna MN Brandy Todd IN Victor Lau SK I will be boycotting Driscolls products until you allow for a fair agreement for the farm labourers who work indirectly for you. ------Fair Labour practices or no sales. Petra Lent McCarron MA
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Sharlee Moore CA PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING TREATED LIKE THEY ARE N O T H I N G !!! Casey Jo Remy ID Chester E Atkins II CA Margaret Sears MA Kenda Swartz CA Please, do the right thing. Erik Diaz OH Patricia Hoffman OR Jason Bowman CA Kelly Reed GA Andree Lachance NS I will make sure I do not buy Sakuma Brothers berries, and if they are not identified as such, I won't buy Driscoll's berries. Susanna Kaljur BC Dwight MacAllister NY We eat berries! Lots and lots of berries! Gene Golden CA Celeste Anacker CA Polly O'Malley CA Jo Ann Wright GA I like reasonable food prices but not on the backs of farm workers. I guess it is time to add Driscoll's to my do not buy list. Margot monson MN Just do the right and just thing---you can afford it S. Lilova ON michael aman NY Faye Soares CA Suzanne Zook OR Joseph Rosta NY Patricia McGuire CO Jo Vos WA I purchase Driscoll's organic berries regularly, all year 'round. I would like to continue to do so, but cannot in good conscience if their support of unfair labor practices continues. Please clean up your act, Driscoll and Sakuma Bros.! Amy Williams CT shelley frazier NC Martha Spencer NC michelle vaughan WA Joseph Alfano NY Duane Likens CO CAROL LAITINEN MO Tanya Baldwin CA Roxanne Amos BC Fair wages & work conditions Ken Windrum CA Fred Alcocer IL Dave Bruker IN Aaron McGee WI Fair wages and good working conditions or we don't buy your products. Quentin Hancock CA Michelle Parada IL Louise Scales BC Elsa Russell Lichtenberg PA Chrisopher Loch MN Mary Nash SC
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Margalo Ashley---Farrand OR I will not be buying Driscoll's products until the contract is signed with Sakuma. Food that is grown by exploiters does not go down well. Miranda Wilson OH I will not buy Driscoll's produce again until they take action against abusive suppliers. Tom H Southern FL Susan Inman MI Meredith Kearns VA Mala Bose OH Jennifer Strauss CO John Robinson CT Julie Darling WV Chelsea Pitcher OR Cassie Collier KY Cyprienne Schroeppel WA Rachel Lindsey IL Carol Reilly NY Jutta Fulford FL David Luxem WA Steve Tavares CA Eric Zinn NY Paul Sheridan ME I eat Driscoll berries, until now... Ann Harlan TX I have already stopped buying your produce and will not resume until this is resolved in the workers' favor. Joan Walker FL colin bray ON michael Berry CA I buy your organic raspberries exclusively but am considering a boycott if this campaign is continued and no contract result from negotiations. D L CA S. E. Williams TX Victoria Pitchford ON Rafael Stephen FL Wren Osborn CA Cherie Connick CA Dianne Smith IL j WHITE CA Dawn Skindziel WA Dan and Ann Green MA Kim Burkholder NM Caryn Cowin CA Alasdair Morgan BC Kevin Leary OH Diane Rangl IL Jamie Beckett KY Rebecca Rose NY Gaetan Beaudoin QC Helgaleena Healingline WI Corrine Molling WI Lenore Baum NC R Martire NY
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Jessie Schwartz BC lori grande MI I buy your berries all the time. Please negotiate. swiatkowski Jane Hope KY Thank you for reading this letter. Katlyn Stranger CA Leonie Graddy CA Sally Woller PA Carol G. IL Mary Jo Connelly MA I regularly purchase Driscoll's berries, but I cannot continue to buy them knowing that the workers who pick them are underpaid and unfairly treated. Jody Yoffe PA I'll look for other brands of strawberries from now on. Catherine Pavlovich ON John Bay MD Yvette Doublet--- CA Weislak Ann Lehman MI Pamela Dorale SD mary browne FL Tina Bunde FL Charles Huber MD I regularly eat Driscoll's raspberries but will find another brand until Driscoll's demands fair labor practices from all of their suppliers. Michael Parsons CO Susan Sellbin NM Sheri White OR Roger Dart IL I will not buy Driscoll's products until and unless they stop buying from ANY oppressive producer. Agnes Chao NY Leo Pedersen BC Sumera S NY valerie clark MA I usually buy Driscoll strawberries but will boycott them until this is fairly settled. Sandra Allen OH Gina Gatto CA Craig Butler NY Sondra Adams NY No more purchases for now... Jonathan Titus NY Laurie Bauer IL Heidi Wood CO JoAnn Webb VT Sharon Ketcherside CA N Tomalty NS Chris Rice CA Y.D. Jordan NJ
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Elizabeth Ireland BC I won't buy driscolls and will share this information with all my business and personal friends who are committed to sustainable fair business practices. If your not part of the solution your part of the problem . If you don't have a moral background in business only seeing the bottom line as a monetary amount at the price of human suffering. If you are blind to this I think legal consequences are highly deserved! David Fidler WI Joseph Miller AZ Stephen Diamond FL augustine Gaona TX Vicky Ocampo CA Cheri Woods AZ Allan Peterson FL Kathy Mason ot Elizabeth Frost VT Mary Mataja WA darrel swenson MN sherry nillissen MO Gloriamarie Amalfitano CA Scott Vayo MA Amy Rayko PA Like rotten berries, injustice leaves a bad taste in our mouths. --- See that the people whose hard work feeds us and your profits are able to comfortably feed themselves. Lara Whiting NC Linda Roy Roy IL Mary Mckenzie AZ Vincent Patti CA This country is nothing without labor. Labor demands a respectful voice in our daily, national function. The subjugation of this voice is what has directly led to the chasm between the !% and 99% and the corporatization that now creates genocidal imbalance throughout the world with the USA in the lead. Rand Guthrie WA Lela Means CA bruce sims CA I promise NOT to buy ANY Driscoll berries melissa Rubin CA Lori Huntley IL Phil Neff WA Ben Goggins GA I have loved Driscoll's raspberries my whole life. Please do the right thing. Gianna Pontoni OK Shannon Rossiter CA Dorothy Sucato PA MARY MILLER AZ Veronika Fimbres CA Charles Wittman NY douglas cohn NY No more Driscoll berries from FreshDirect for me!! Rachael Pashkowski WA Susan Schmidt OH
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Gaynelle Parks TN I want to be able to trust the Driscoll brand. Please make that possible by not supporting unfair pay and working conditions. Thanks! Lynn Biddle MA MC Hagerty CA Arnold Gore NY Howard Traite NY Laura Overmann CA Anne McManus MN Doreen Stein TX The more people can survive on wages they get, the better place the world will be. Ira Zillich ot Adina Parsley WA A. McGarry MI maria alvarez WA No more Driscoll's berries in our household and business. Veronica Z OR lou Vinc ON jack fahey MA Kathy Mullins MA Dotty Caldwell ME Rhonda Bradley TN Margaret Richardson MN Robyn Little CA Vicki Evans IL Joan Hansen WI Patricia Jerrells WA Not buying Driscoll's. Jennifer Zielinski PA Connie Stringer OR val stelse WI We all know right from wrong but so many of our corporations and industries fail to knowledge what is truely right for their workers. They seem to forget that without those workers their products would not make it to market and there would be no profits or company. The American citizen workers deserve a piece of the pie that they help to create. Please help us change the way business treat their employees, they are after all a major part of the company. FYI i buy your organic berries, but i cannot support a company that does not support it's employees or the employees of their supplies. It really is just that simple. susie simon CA C. Rynne Pages MA Maxine Owen TX I will resume buying Driscoll's products when I hear this issue has been resolved and all workers have safe and comfortable living conditions and a fair market wage. B. Thomas Diener NM Lyla Neumann WA Dylan Zucosky NY Carolyn Wilson OH Paula Frighetti AZ r. levy IL Anpeo Carpenter VA
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Joe Bateman UT Kathy Ruopp IL Ilene Beninson MI Boycotting Driscoll products and spreading the word until the Sakuma Brothers do the right thing! Albert Ward NV Olympia Zographos ot Alicia Zody IL Norman Birkel PA Nancy Mugridge CA The foundation of the US's prosperity for businesses & individuals in the 50's & 60's was good wages. Let's try that again. ------It's hard to eat food, when I know that the people producing it are suffering. J C NY susan zalon CA a kasbarian NJ Kelley Brooksher TX Paul Henry MA Karyn Goff MI Diana Corbin OR Laura Syperda OR Robyn Parnell ot Melissa Hastings NC Danielle Montague--- UT Judd David Gustafson IL Shame on Sakuma Brothers! Krista Carlton CA Another dirty bugger who wants all the profits for themselves and their lazy shareholders!$$$$$$ --- So I shall add you to my NEVER buy from you list and I will let everyone know what dirty rats you are! --- Your days are numbered if you keep up the dirty biggerism as we the people if earth are DONE with profit mongering rats! --- Bye bye...... Alicia Evans WA Ruth Elkin ME Bernadette Foti CA James Connolly CA laura kucharczyk CT Celene Perez CA Warren R ON Judy Dragon CA Beth Davidson NV PLEASE LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS AND ESTABLISH FAIR EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS FOR THE BERRIES YOU BUY! joe buglione ME kanta masters CA Mazell Kolvyn BC andrea luckring PA Kaili Brande CA Margaret Cole CA David Johnson MB angela wilson VA Ted Fishman CA Randi Johnson CA
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Thomasin Kellermann RI arnold johnson CA jo9yce/henry moser CA April Tarabocchia NJ Lisa Riffe KY All workers should have a fair wage and decent working conditions.! Jan Bromann OR Joanne Wagner WI Wendy Robertson NY I am willing to boycott if necessary. Please don't make it necessary --- I eat berries all the time. Leo Kucewicz PA Carl Estes CA Dinah Pistole---Bivens TN Our family purches a lot of Driscoll;s produce each week, however there are other options! our familys and our friends will no longer purches andy of your produce until a fair contract is made DPB Brenda Godsey TX Patricia McGowan NY Martha Rowe CT E. Wald SK I have been buying Driscoll produce, will not buy any more until I hear that the workers are receiving fair treatment. Mary Ellen Croteau IL It matters to me as a consumer that the people who pick and produce the products I buy are paid and treated fairly. It should matter to you too. Christine Berger CA angela fazzari OR Darcy Bluhm MI I will no longer buy Driscoll produce as I am appalled that this company has such disregard for it's workers' health and right to a fair wage. Kelley Blaine CO Margaret Hoffman PA Pam Kmiec IL Lin Griffith CA Normally I buy Driscoll berries often, but I care very much about farm workers' work conditions and fair pay. If you disregard these fair practices, I will certainly disregard Driscoll berries. I definitely vote with my wallet. Paul Pond ot Vivian Kasey IL lyn lovell ot Rodney Arent AR We are frequent Driscoll's consumers and would like to see them leverage their power as buyers for the good of the support workers. Pat Watts UT Thunder Sollock VA It is important to walk your talk, otherwise it is nothing more than window dressing. If Driscoll's cannot do this then my money will go to the one who can. Nancy Antonecchia NJ Greg Nichols KS Karen Weeks CO Quinn Friesen BC Kelley Scanlon NY Karen Romano CO Autumn Gonzalez CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms judith hazelton VT Ramya Chellappa NJ Nancy Brown NC Robert Sullivan CA The days of slave/cheap labor must stop! It has been happening far too long! Alexandr Yantselovskiy ot Joan Bindner MN Arielle Bernstein CA bernardo alayza mujica IA gregory ortiz CA Elizabeth Lara WA Peter Cummins ot Barbara Oleksa---Reiss VA Mary Scott MT Dick Reiss VA Debra L Diegoli VT A fair labor contract is a must for farm workers. Your customers demand that these workers be treated fairly and respectfully. Jess Dworak AB Barry Spielvogel NY Kevin Terrell WV Robert Douglas ID No more Driscoll berries for me until the workers are treated fairly Margaret Glass OR CHRISTINA BERNARD SC David Kelm IL joseph Dangelo NY Michael Terry CA Paul Howard OR Melissa Cathcart MN Glenda Ralston OH I am a big fan of Driscoll's strawberries. Would not like to think that I am supporting unfair wages and working conditions from your supplier Sakuma Brothers. Sharon Carder---Jackson MO Driscoll can do better than support an unfair system! Please only use berries from farms with fair pay! Timothy Rolle OH Meryle A. Korn OR Anna Jerome CA Juliet Ovalle CA Aaron Dukes OR Cletus stein TX Shirley Muney AZ I've always purchased Driscoll's berries when I have the opportunity. Now I'll avoid them until there's a change in your policy towards farm labor. Julie Ostoich CA Milijan Krecu CA Becky Andrews LA Anna Roland WY Marguerite Barragan CA Anda Friedman MA Brita Palomino CA Do the right thing.
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Carolyn Marshall WA I am a Driscoll customer and will not purchase your products if you continue to source them from Sakuma Brother's. Eric Rothchild CA Susan Frisbie CA Nelleke Bruyn IN michael quillin OH Denise Brennan MI Rick Shreve CA susanne sakadales OH Gladys Schmitz MN Julie Kremer MA Helene Bernardin MB Susan Nierenberg NJ Douglas Best NY Stephanie Durand NH Geraldine Pierre NJ Patricia Sharp CA If you can't be fair, I can'y buy Driscoll --- berries. It's that simple. Do the right thing. Gabriel Weiss VT Alison Hyder MA Carrie Nolan NY Tim Gordon MA Lascinda Goetschius NJ mike deycaza HI David Bigwood TX Cynthia Bauer PA micah patterson CA Loretta Holscher MN Rebecca Burmester NC deirdre holzweiler AK Georgeann Koster IL Mary Southworth MA Jean Turley---Sinclair CA Donna McMillan TN Cindy Keudell OR It's time to do the right thing! Elena Ronquillo CA Susan Sloan WA It says in the Bible that a worker is worthy of her wages. It would be a better world if more companies would treat their workers as companies such as Ben & Jerrys do. They have established a policy that the highest paid worker's wages are tied to the wages of the lowest paid worker so that when one advances ALL advance. This is fair. Jan Hillegas MS Steve Hersch WA Peter & Patricia Cook NC Fair is fair. These workers deserve a fair contract. Debbie Ott MB Elissa Hoeger NJ gail alford CA Won't be buying Driscoll until this is settled. Sandra Hill NY Nancy Fannin OH
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Janette Dean NV Driscoll's, please protectp berry workers' human rights! Barry Cohen NY Randy Morrow KS Richard Smythe WI Doug Anderson ON Eileen Welch TX Amy Motherwell ot Nancy Lyles OR Cheri Lundstrom IN I will boycott Driscolls over this. Kate Harder IL Tony Greiner NM Kathleen Crittenden WI I am your customer, and I want you go clean up your act. Electra Posada FL Delinda Robinson CA Mary Spano MD kuldeep kumar IN Dan & Judy Dickinson MI Barbara Holcomb MI L Nork WA Dana Atnip MI Show fairness and compassion to those who grow and pick your products! Thank you. Mary Boeh OR jason pinsky CO Nancy S Y CA Workers deserve a fair wage. Steven Kranowski VA Alice Arellano CA Diane Dawson CA martha halla NM lea mac leod NY Lawrence Merlino NY Robert Fingerman TN Claudia Martinez CA Gary Gearheart MA Nicole Marble WA Maile Horita HI Elizabeth Kelly CO Steve Babyak NY Kerrie Waldron ot Sarah Robbins MA Alice McGough MA Elaine Fischer VA Philip Ratcliff OR Cody Gelezinsky PA Lori Kegler CA Marianne Flanagan IL I will add Driscoll's to the list of products I will not buy because they will not treat those who do the backbreaking work for them fairly. Trina Lopez CA Chris Thomas CO M Dito PA
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Rose Gennusa TX Laura Goggins WA Patrick Sennello NV Yochanan Zakai OR Bernice Zazow PA Otto Hivju ot Lloyd DeWald NM Marc Ferrara DC Rita Meuer WI If you are not fair to them...Karma will get you in the end and it's not pretty.... Victoria Raya WA Renee Miranda IN linda sepp ON Jason Bowman CA Erika DeCarlo IL maria kljuce ot Steve Smith DC Thomas Atherton NC Stop abusing the workers now! Vince Mendieta TX Laura Krause FL Eric Serxner NY Emory Aaron CO Ellen Beschler NY Pamela Check CA Marc Beschler NY Ariane Schmidt CA Susan Robin NY Valeriano Sendra Sanchis ot
Jennifer Stone ot Kristina Doyle VT Rebecca Stewart CA jean lopardo MA Driscoll's products are off my shopping list. Tonya Merrow MI Driscolls is everywhere. You can really make a difference. Make this happen!! George Schneider CA Sharath Anand K ot Quinta Wilkinson TX Pay well and go organic if you want us to continue to buy from you. Aimee Mendes MA Richard Heinlein WI Steve Schrempf MA Lynn Roebuck AR Rich Iwasaki OR Leah Harris ot Do the right thing and either boycott Sakuma or force them to change their operation to be fair to their workers and stop exploiting them. Patricia Griffin NC Farmworkers have suffered enough indignity throughout the years. Where would we be without their labor? It is the only fair thing to do. Nancy Shebeneck FL Kristina Turechek NY
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Peter Scott IN Laurent Roger ot Bill Di Stanisloa FL HÉLÈNE LECOURS QC JUSTICE IS THE NAME OF HAPPINESS Michael Drzyzga MA Gregory Esteve FL Rebecca Pate TX I have been buying Driscoll berries for years, but will stop until this is resolved. We can opt for a fairer world. sheila martin MN Lily Maisky ot mary clark KY Frank Yeatman MA I will not buy Driscoll's berries until workers have the rights they deserve.
Vic Bostock CA Kay Oppliger MI Lynn Stevenson MI Robert Welker MI Andrea Lindsay WA Monica O'Connor CA Pamela DeGeyter NY Catherine HOUTAKKER WI sharon davidson IL we need these workers to promote our food treat them fairly for everyone Eric Soeder OH Germaine Gogel NY susan carey NY Vicki Baugher Baugher KS David R Guinnup DE Jeanne Healy NY Lori Arsenault WI Stephanie Cameron TX Spring Hartke WA Brian O'Connell MA Lawrence Kitay AZ ken canty MA Carmen L MD Janice Rogers---Levy OR I buy Driscoll's berries but I also support a fair wage for workers.. Do the right thing Driscoll, I would not like to look for other berries to buy. dona alexis CO Dyane Gingras QC Ann Eastabrooks NC 28901 Meryl Pinque ME Yvette Dishman CA Richard Roe NY Suzanne MacKenzie MA Regina Phillips CA Lauren Bohart TX Liz Levy CA geoff richcreek CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms A.M. Volz IL Sara Miller NY Nick Barcott WA Christina Conroy WA Shannon Caruso NM Bob LaZebnik MI Randal Klefbeck WA esther garvett FL Allison Kampf IL Patricia Cook IA These workers need a break, help, and you can give it. Allison Baugh NE Gillian Ellenby OR sharron doran MN Miriam Elliott FL Patsy Price AB Anita Von Himmel NY Mare wahosi WA Raquel Benabe---Lane PA Jacqueline Cordry TX Rev Crow Swimsaway OH PhD Margaret Keylin IL daniel kline IA Neil Bleifeld NY deepali panjabi CA Valeri Fornagiel PA Wendy Hamilton CA Harold Raleigh CA Kate Magrath MO Quality fruit does not require unfair practices. Clean up your act! You can do a lot to improve the lot of the people who produce your products.
Dot Benham NH Denise Scotto NY Pamela Nangreaves ON Lauren Gedlinske MN Phyl.lis Arist IL William Solomon VA Eileen Hale CA George Shaub NJ Teri MIcco NM What would Love do? Michele Nihipali HI Mary Higgins NM Daphne T Stevens MA Everyone deserves respect and a fair wage. Sakuma needs to do the above. Amy Sigurdson OH Ying Cooper MA Steve Marquardt WA Lee Michalsky NY Jane Keggi WI www.fairworldproject.org 95
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Raphael S. NY Elizabeth Moody CO We want you to protect the human rights of all the people who are associated with the food we eat. We will not buy Driscoll's because they do not honor the rights of workers. Aurelie Ward Ward NC Jane Webb AZ David Schwebke IL Ada Williams HI massimo Fornaciari ot Richard Staten NJ Gayle Galdames FL Lucretia Marriott IL Don Smith NH Julia Michel CO Jennifer Schally MN Albert Lee IL david santana NY Melissa Wales MA As a white---looking farm worker in a farm community have seen rampant inequality. Hope you will lead the change. Karen Christian AZ Just sell your OWN berries!! Colleen McGlone FL Robert Ogden TN Do the right thing. Thank you. Donna Mangel CA Jane Alynn Bullis WA Janet Tice NC Janet McKinney WA James Sylver NY Nathan Sullenberger PA Robert Santee AK claire morgan AZ Evelyn Palder TX Graham Jackson ON Deborah Miller TX Edith Tanner NS Please help the workers at Sakuma Brothers negotiate a fair contract so they can have a decent standard of living. I often buy your brand of berries BUT I may look for other brands in future. ------Sakuma Craig Cook CA j roberts OR Barbara Hoffmann IL Shireen Parsons DC A fair wage and decent working conditions are the right of every worker!
Robert Rowland WA Kate Amon CA Workers deserve decent pay and treatment! ruth Valdez CA Let's see your "commitment to community". Show it. Isabelle Jenniches CA Sandy Freeman VA Scott Downie ON Sally Downie ON
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Janice Gintzler IL If you want me to purchase a Driscolls product, you will pay your workers fairly and provide benefits. Fair trade please. Cyrilla Dillon NJ Patricia Vazquez ot Leila Norgren MN Kathy Sabatini CA I am a consumer of Driscoll's products but will cease purchasing if their commitment to fair wage and working conditions is not demonstrated. Janet Parlett PA elisabeth cleasby BC susan sutton MI Jennifer Barber WA Diane Burnett AL Stephen Nolan VA Dena Jensen WA Virginia Allgaier NJ KAREN WHITE, MSW TX Michael McClennen WI Frank tsh WA Sandy Commons CA Roger Crazy Wolf CO Edith ogella CA Leslie and Rob Gordon AZ Nicole C FL John Silvers Jr. CA Elizabeth Sowers CO Rudy Arredondo MD Robert Moody GA denise nyman NJ Kelsey Price OR Tracey Aquino VA Ina Jackson VA Justyna Wojciechowska ot kenneth walters AL Salvatore Cento NY Regina Zimmerman OR Randall Yungerberg MN Dolores Marchese CT I will not hesitate to refuse purchase of your produce until you respect the people who farm it. Give them a FAIR WAGE. Julie Heston OR Laurel Seppala---Etra CO Aimee Correa CA Marilyn Britton NH All workers need protection for safe working conditions and fair wages. diane matta CT Denise Laffer NJ Kevin Tharp CA James Harrison TX I have now stopped purchasing "Driscoll's Strawberries" until they notify me here at this email address that they have made the changes they need to make to receive my money.
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Kara Graul TX Sandra Stephenson FL Nancy Orlowski WA It's not too much to ask... fair wage and decent working conditions. Bonnie Hanmore ON Catherine Stearn ot Broehe Karpenko WA We must treat all beings with the respect we wish for ourselves. Sandra Stephon MD Ed Descault CT Bernadette Riccio CT Ruth Sheridan AK Wendy F MA Liz Godber ot Michael W Evans CA Margot Serwer NY Christina Mendrinos MA Donna Terry ON I do not want cheap food on the backs of farm labourers! Also NO GMO's!!!!! Jackie Van Der Hout WA Carol Barr NE Christine Mills AZ Michelle Gronen CA Russell Fowler NC Aldana Santto--- NY Quinnell Victoria Allen MO I can easily buy local, and not your products. We agree to pay more if you play nice with these poor people. Claudia Clark MA Shame on you, Driscoll! I will no longer buy your produce. Paul Harvey PA Peg LeClair MA Tracei Cagle OK Asano Fertig CA Nancy Chismar NJ L. J. Lanfranchi MA Mary K Chelton NY silvia lucisano NY john eschen WA David Brodnax IL mateja frank ot Jessie Casteel TX Jeff LaFlamme NM Cassandra Southerland OR Audrey David NY The least we can do is pay our farmworkers a decent wage. Sometimes I'm ashamed to be an American. Thanks Driscolls. Melanie Gonzalez IL Please do the right thing! Joseph Ponisciak NJ Dori Peters AZ Janet McMillen TX Elizabeth James CO Lisa Fues VA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms John Pincince ME Please do not be hypocrites Susan Zamudio--- CA Gurrola Lary Miller CA Thomas Talbot NM Gabrilelle Barnard CA Claudia M.E. Charles---van AL Groning Jenny Walker NY You are a major distributor of fruit and, as such, have both great power and responsibility. Use your power responsibly and insist Sakuma Brothers negotiates in good faith and fairness with its workers. Otherwise, you lose me as a customer Barbara Toshalis MI Love Debberman NY Driscoll's has always been my preferred brand for the best berries. I will be boycotting Driscoll's berries from now on as long as Driscoll's is supporting unfair labor practices. Be a good company and support Fair Trade and Fair labor practices. Bill Theisen IL Shelley Fritz Fritz KS Sarah Sullivan TX Treat all people well. A working wage is self sustaining. Carrie Staton CA patricia Ruch PA Cheryl Costigan ID Ann Ewing FL Michael Cloud NJ Linda Faste CA Jordan boyd HI Suzanne Bremmer NY Cat Ransom AZ I won't buy Driscoll's berries until i know they are grown and harvested under conditions that I consider fair. serge vrabec OR Lora Rathbone WA Driscoll's is my preferred brand for the best berries. I will be boycotting Driscoll's berries as long as Driscoll's is supporting unfair labor practices Lee Sonne NM I will not buy my favorite Driscoll's berries until I hear that they support Familias Unidas por las Justicia!!! Matt Peters AZ Brock Auerbach---Lynn IL
Mair Mcnamara IL shanovia navee escoe CA Merrill Franco CA I am a customer Tom Kennedy AL Treat your employees fairly, you hypocrites!! Michelle Wong CA tia pearson HI Paul Ordway OR Carlos Ortiz FL Esteban Edwards OH rob nobrega FL
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Talitha Butterfield CO I am a current buyer of your products but will no longer support you unless I find that you are paying a more than adequate wage to the workers that pick your berries. Do the right thing and give these people a fair contract. Thank you. Atalanta Sunguroff MA George McDill TX John M. Schetky ME A fair day's pay for a days work seems a pretty simple concept. christian czingula WA Susan Rosenberg MD janet noonen KS Mary Southard WI Driscoll: Please stop buying from Sakuma Brothers until they have a FAIR contract with workers (Familias Unidas por la Justicia). Jenny Schevers IL Driscolls, No berries for our family or our store until you fix this. MICHEL HARRY MN Jane Remillard OH Irene Weiss OR Donna Koegl ON Sara Boys MI Donna Thelander HI Matthias Blumrich CT Chris Evans CO Laurel Husk PA Melissa Laste NC Mona Kool--- OR Harrington SUSAN MCCORRY CA larry mahlis WA Rosemary French NV Jaminah Shannon WA lena canepa NH Gabrielle Baker KY Sharon McGettigan AB Agnes Chrismer TX Tyler Hall OR Ina Butler MO Beth Brownfield WA Sakuma Brothers Berries has been dishonorable and cruel in their relationship and responsibilities to their workers. Shocking that a family which has experienced discrimination in the past can project discrimination against the very people upon which their livelihood is determined today. What they have done is dishonorable and unjust. We are asking that you not be party to supporting unfair labor practices, inhuman living conditions and wages, and discrimination. We are watching you and until we hear differently will boycott any product under your name Paulette Fay ot Roderick Nunn ot Emma Niedermeyer OR Kevin Rolfes TX Dot peck FL I personally will stop purchasing all driscoll blueberries this year. www.fairworldproject.org 100
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Jennifer Maas MA Sue Styer NM Paulo Nührich ot Rachael Brown CA Carol Noyes VT D. Tucker WA I will join picket lines at local stores to boycott Driscoll and all Sakuma Bros. berries. DEBORAH SMITH OK FARMS THAT TREAT WORKERS POORLY------WHO NEEDS THOSE FARMS. Chuck Donegan NY Joan Hazelhurst ot Cheryl Steiger IL Barbara Gifford MA Cynthia Hull NM Kathryn Rose CO Catherine Carnes CA Yvonne Chrsitison WI Thomas Kruggel FL Leticia Dodge WA sheedy dedashti CA Jesse Chacon TX Sylvia Ansay FL Please help make this a better world by insisting that farm workers receive a fair wage. Stand up for what us right by ending your relationship with Sakuma Bros. farms if a fair wage agreement is not forthcoming. Kyle Freund WI Michael Toobert CA Andrew Kalukin VA Bridget Spann MA Bonita Staas IL Kl Paul PA Dan Sherwood OR Joel Gutzki II MI Elizabeth Hemzacek IL Rachel Bishop---Koklas NY We must support workers and fair wages. Apryl Mefford--- CA Hemauer Lariza Garzon FL Scott Granlund WA Fair wages are paramount to our ability to support your company. Karen Mcelmurry ME Pamela Weaver AK John Herron NC Therese Cartwright OR Honor Labor Pay Fair NICHOLAS PERONE PA mary jaklevick CA charles koch GA Juliet Yeates DE Please behave with self respect and care with upright and honest actions in this situation G.T.Gerrard gerrard NY when wages are fair, customers will purchase more. Mark Reback CA
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Brad Davis WV Jonna Gleason IN Jim Pennino MN I will not purchase Driscoll's products until the farm workers recieve a fair wage. dave hunt NC joscelyn sorbara BC Linda Massinello FL Denise Schmidt CO Alexander Olson WA I will not purchase Driscoll's products until they recognize the decency and rights of the members of Familias Unidas por la Justicia daniel gonzalez CA Lorianne Wilbur WA Mark Gallegos CA Amanda C PA Andrew Eckels WA I will boycott Driscolls Products until they stop distributing Sakuma products or Sakuma signs a union contract with FUJ Andrew May MD Please honor your word, Driscoll. Press Sakuma Brothers to observe fairness in labor practices for their working families. John Kraemer WI Walk the walk --- Don't be a hypocrite! Amy Robinson CA Julie Diaz CA Katie Leone PA Sharon Rudnitzky MA Ian Alexander WA Lisa Miranda CA Sean Dannen WA Nathaniel Stutterheim MO Anne Tschinkel FL Christopher Smith CA Gabriella della Croce NY Sandra Lape NY Melinda Suelflow MN Jane Patrick OH judy linman ID sherrie valdez CA elliot lang NY Linc Cole FL M. S. Wood MO Jeanne Schlatter OH Julie Fergus MN Blanche Yee MS Jolie Misek IL Margie Mallen CA Beth Sweetwater CA diana horowitz CA Corena Sharp WA Marc Massar FL Samuel Morningstar WI talya erez WA
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Judy Taguiwalo ot Teresita Lindner ot Mike Albar NJ Cathy Bundon CA Sarah Nash ON Trent Block NV Jan Fenno AR
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Vic Burton MO Wendy Murdoch VA James Koger MA Kathryn Carpenter MD Robert Feller NJ Robert Pehlke MA I'm boycotting Driscoll until Sakuma treats its workers right or until Driscoll stops sourcing berries from Sakuma. Andrew Rogers MI Robert Meyer NJ S. Wraight NY Vicki Joseph IL Ian Burns NY John Hammel TN Michael Stuart MA Kate Busby OR Michele Rosen NY chris dickinson MO Mesha Wright NC janine adair CO Sarah brise TX I buy Driscoll strawberries from Kroger but will no longer do, based on this information. Sarah Gulden MD E.S. Schloss NY Sam Ernst CO A Bonvouloir CA Rex Kittle MI mariusz lesty IL Joseph Luchman IA Melinda Bashen VA Anna Wieder NY Holly Riker TX Sofya Sorokina NY Pamela Reichmann WI I will no longer buy Driscoll berries until they stop purchasing from Sakuma or Sakuma negotiates a fair contract with Familias Unidas. Christy Thomas CA Elena Perez NY Kamini Hanson CA John Lamantia IL Brenda MacInnes FL Linda Collins FL
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Lauren Anderson NJ Chris McGratty NC Ann Evans NJ I will stop buying Driscoll's berries until this is sorted out Maura Phillips NY Anita Rapone VT Jaret Osborne NY Barbara Stewart MD Daniel Potrepka MD Pam Pondel IL Alla Shendler NY Elizabeth Hebron MI Roger Pelizzari WV Lora Bele DC Colleen Warner MI Linda Vincent TX Carol Becker CA G. Donald Peabody VT karl novak VT patricia libby MA Yancey Summerour TX Carlo Zucchi ot Claire Perricelli CA Marc Coronado CA ENOUGH with the SLAVE LABOR, DISCRIMINATION and EXPLOITATION ALREADY! Donna Hamilton ot CA angie lilly OH Wellington Neal OR I have stopped purchasing Driscoll products due to this issue and will continue to boycott until you influence sakuma to treat their workers with respect Barbara Brusco NJ Carol Hanson MT Roberta Lorenz IL Laura Polvino--- MA Alamprese Nancy Kean MI Michael Csere VT Cindy Krznarich AZ Barbara Bradshaw PA Brad Walker IL Susan Robinson NC Patrick Moffatt OH Mary Schneider UT Joe Ginsburg WA J. Michael Herr CT Barbara Neri MI Eric Bello FL Kim Mehler PA Jordan Tegtmeyer PA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Mary Jamieson NC Lynn Crandall AZ Berries were on my shopping list, not only for this family, but the next door neighbor. We are sick of hearing about the abuses meted out to the hard---working people who pick our food. Both of us have decided to drop these items from our shoping lists until we KNOW they are being treated as we all would like to be treated --- FAIRLY!! Charles Allison OH Nova Figueroa FL Let's honor our farmers by giving them fair wage for their hard work. Vicki Sherman MD Seth Dean SC tim hammond IA Christina Sanderson MO Elissa Folk OH Mia Utzinger ot Susan Peterson IL Eloy Santos NC Hendrica Regez IL Deborah Schechter IL walter moore VA Paul Goedinghaus CA LynnEl Powell CA Daniel Bieker VA John Shadbolt ON Janice Nadworny VT Julia Leone NY LeeAnn Flynn MI Roxanne Friedenfels NJ John Downing IA Kathy Lopez NJ Kathleen McGoldrick NJ Larry Williamson SC Carlos González ot Rebollo Jesse Dubinsky NY Diane Hippert MO Tom Schwegler MO Sylvia Dumford GA barbara knutson FL I never buy Driscoll's berries because of insecure information on pesticides so I would like to know if any precautions are available for these underpaid farm workers Denise McCray AZ Gina Fasano NY Darren Burrows MO Tamara Turcotte AB Everyone deserves fair working conditions and wages. surely your company is profitabale enough to "share the wealth" Judith Allen SC John Teevan NJ Jessica Cole WA Please only buy berries (preferably organic) from companies who treat their workers fairly and give them safe working conditions. www.fairworldproject.org 105
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Heather linnemeyer OR Jean Abbott NJ Laura Pierson IL Amy Harbison FL Joanne Tyler CA barbara smith KS Tammy Stewart TX Farmers need to be paid a fair wage, otherwise they'll go out of business and we won't have food. Ensure that Sakuma Brothers is paying fair wages Thomas Kelly NJ Sandy J. NY Miana Patterson VA Nancy Kneip IL Debra Koich WA I go out of my way in search of clean, fair trade products. so I am grateful to have had this situation brought to my attention. Ed Fiedler TX Linda Halvatzes NH Leah Fraser PE Gay Goden OH Trina Cooper WA Monika Guernsey NY Tina Myers MO Anita Manuel VA Elizabeth Eszterhas CA Please maintain a fair system of compensation for all workers, I have bought Driscolls berries before because of your stated practices. I might have to reconsider my purchase next time! anne stevens NJ Cassandra Rogerson DE carla karel MI Brenda Schack CT J will no longer buy my berries from Driscoll's since they are part of this disgraceful treatment of workers. Piero Soligo PR Aimee Gordon NY Mario Jakab ON Walter Terrell NY Mason Dillon TN Perry Lewis MI Pamela Kedderis CT Julie Griffith CO danny martin CA Niara Isley CO Melody Fish WV Steve Anderson CO Odin Townley NY Rich See DC Mary Allen NE Rita Riley KS Patrice Anita CA Tom Yahnke Sr MO
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Mary Cloutier TX Kimberly Shaub NJ Jeff Harrington MN David A Woolsey ME Gordon Wooten NC Glory Urbina PR Pamela Kjono ND Nora Quinn NJ Caroline Haines CO Al Peck OH Keira Baheti NJ James Skalsky OH Pete Garland TN gene chorostecki NM Angelika Davis UT Priscilla Chew MA Carol Smith IL Victor Webster NM Patricia Barclay OR It would be interesting if the Sakuma Brothers made an attempt to live on the same wages that they are paying their employees. They have forgotten the number one rule when it concerns having employees...the employees are the company. When you take care of your employees, you take care of your business. They are being extremely foolish and greedy. It will eventually work against them in a big way. Ruth Cassidy FL Maureen Egan OH I buy many Driscoll fruit products as many family and friends. None of us will purchase your products until a fair contact is negotiated for the employees of Sakuma Brothers. I truly regret eating these berries now knowing how the Sakuma Brothers mistreat their employees. Karen Herzog MI Marina Adams NY David Cavagnaro NJ Davorin Skender IN Doris Braley MN I think buying local and using a CSA will be a better choice anymore. Chris Ianuario SC I thought that people still had something called ..... "Morals and Dignity". Do something to show this company they can't treat people this way.
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Neil Hochman NY Halt purchases or lose my business Matthew Bansfield MA Ruth Sewell OH leigh---ann renz NC jc lerner CA Yvonne Hansen TX OK, no more Driscoll berries for me! Pat Osborn KY No more Driscoll's anything for my household, until unethical contract with sakuma is severed --- or workers basic rights are respected. Joe Muscara TX Tracy Maxwell CO I buy Driscoll berries quite often and find them to be of the highest quality. But I don't like thinking that my purchase supports a grower who treats workers unfairly or even abusively and won't negotiate with them. Please use your influence to get this grower to act responsibly. Ray Ellis IL neil glaser NY Anthony Antimuro WV Marsha Prezioso NV Kelly Turicchi TX Sharon Tepe KY Rebekah Fox WA I love berries and yours are the ones sold at my local grocery. I would hate to have to stop purchasing them... Billie Ambrose OR pat mace VA Sandra Tobin MD Alex Stromeyer CA Jack Duffie TX Agnes Lichtner MD Bob Stuart SK This is basic. People matter. Nancy Baughman NM Jenell Holt AZ P Jessup MI Lara Lorenz WA Sherri Silverman NM Carolyn Frederick CT Raymond Bachmannn MI Susan Stein PA Robert Falla ON Is this really how you want to be known to the public? Linda Mulder MI Carol S IA Paul Rogers CT J.C. Basurto CA You must do the right thing NOW! Joan Read MO Everybody deserves a livable wage! George Bourlotos NJ Noam Eisen NY Ronnie Moehrke GA Kirsten Stolle NC Christine Souris---Kosla MI Merrill Bitter UT Constance Simeri IN
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Lawrence Green NY Linda Moorcock TX ALL workers have the right to fair compensation for their labor. Driscoll organic berries are a staple for us, so we urge you to support the workers' cause. We would miss you. Fiona Kozuh TX Kathy Jones MN Eileen Prendiville CA I urge you to boycott Sakuma Brothers until their workers are given a fair wage. I will boycott Driscolls products if they do not settle with their workers Keith Hiestand WI Emily Beeson NC Paolo Ferrera FL Sushila Cherian FL What is so difficult about paying a fair wage for work performed? Rhonda Case IA Wanda Huelsman OH John Byland MA ann shea MA Cynthia Opderbeck CT Please do the right thing by Sakuma's workers! Thank you so much. Tina LaBrie CO Annetta Winkle WI I guess I won't be buying any berries at the grocery store. We are in country where the feudal lords rule and the rest of us are the surf's. GREED for the few rules this country and they sure feed a whole lot of myth's to the people. Evan Kroeker IL Barbara Marko CA Antonio Fernandez NY Lucas Klein IL Ronald Gelden CO claude chaumette QC Mary Orr NM I live in a valley of farm workers. Fair wages is justice. Douglas Sedon MD Joan Beer MI Cathy Gromer IL Nancy Allen OH Ruth Kneile IA The Driscoll reputation for quality must not ride on the backs of farm workers who are not fairly treated and compensated. Kerry Burkhardt NY Denise Lindow AZ Sue Schoenfelder MO Terrie Williams TX Jim Procyk MB charlene nash TN Driscoll's berries have no flavor---even organic. will boycott for sure! Stana Weisburd NY gene polis AZ Deirdre Wait CO Carol Skyrm NY Sherry Bowles WV Louise Quigley MA dennis johnson MN
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms david shore NY Paula Muth NY Ian Randolph IL Driscolls --- We fervently support Sakuma workers here in Chicago! Darin Somma DC James Lovich OH Robert Gammon MD William Nelson ME Tupefaavae Auelua CA Susan Cordova TX Mark Joy WA Yvette Schultenover MN We in our community RELY on the organic strawberries from Driscoll and hope you are able to stop purchasing from Sakuma Bros Janet Corbin OH Samuel Hathaway TX Charlotte Sines CO I eat a lot of strawberries and I will find another supplier unless you stop buying from the Sakuma Brothers. Jean Pagni NV Mary Sohl ME Ray & Linda Gaudette NC Valerie Lucero CO r c IL Ronald Khare IA Rita Carlier AZ Dr Kenneth Lim CO Siamak Vossoughi CA Donna Charlap MA Lynne Munro ON Mary Harrison NC I look for Driscoll berries because I value quality...but I also value justice, safety and fairness so please help since I really want to be able to continue buying your berries. Thank you. helen floyd IL Rainne Wells AL Kathy Weinstein FL Nancy Hediger IL brian cummings NV Maria Markowicz IL Driscoll strawberries are a main source of our diet. Please take care to buy berries that are fair to the workers that pick them. Valerie Hildebrand OH Stephanie Reed PA D Gerdeman FL Sonia Nordenson CA Fair is fair, folks. Lisa McCloskey AZ Knud Padborg CA mozelle white TX Mike Romano CA Driscoll's, get with it. Demand that Sakuma Bros negotiate a fair contract with their workers. Until then, I'll stay away from your berries. Yuriy Gerzon MA Jane Macdonald ON Elizabeth Gwynn IN
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Jim Shadoff WA Blake Labarbera WI I am not buying Driscoll products anywhere. Nancy Mayo MA Michael Ahimsa CT Daisy Keresey CO Kerry Berry MI Roberta LaFrance CA Tim Hayes CA leanne clarabut ON Mary Saunders WI KAROL JO KAPPEL CA WILL NOT BUY DRISCOLL UNTIL SAKUMA BECOMES REALISTIC WITH WORKERS RIGHTS. Paul Gunther MN Candace Doyle OR Robin Schaef PA charles mcmahan NC Suni Rose GA Joann Mitchell FL Aaron Beverly CA Janice Holkup WA Joan Selin NJ Martja M CA Tanya Taylor NC Barbara Moore PA Fred Lavy VA Elenara Joubert VT Sue McHenry CO Melissa Holt TX Lydia Kawaler NY Jessie Gordon OH Jon Barlow Hudson OH Maria Rivero CA Linda Berry PA Patricia Greytak MT Will no longer buy Driscoll, until you DO the right thing! lynn tyler FL stephanie lewis FL Isabel Castellvi NY Joanne Kinderwater PA Put yourself in the workers shoes. Then work out a fair wage for them to provide for their families. Care about people more than money!! Mary Smith NY erica kolar KS Jana Harker CA Penelope Carrier ot Marita Ravenhorst VA Aixa Chen IL I will boycott Driscoll strawberries, fair wages are a must. Wanda Crain NY Elizabeth Rainoldi MA barb bason DE
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Carmen Elisa Bonilla---Jones FL People need to earn a living wage for their labor. If people cannot pay for the basics in life --- decent food, clothing and a solid roof over their head --- with their hard work then what is the point of working? M. Struble PA j Vargas IL Juleigh Snell IL James Watson GA Marcella Vecchiotti NJ Dennis Liabenow UT Honor Labor Valerie McAndrews NY Jennifer Falk NY Laryssa Landale ON Jeffrey Hearn PA christian friedrich CA K Miller CA Jose Caballero CA Susan Smith VA Michele Paxson NY Bruce Morrison IA Nancy Perlman IL Donald Rittenhouse MI Frank Bodine FL Angela Jelinek AR Jackie Byars MI Susan Eck OH Joy Chambers MA Linville Doan MN Lens Lucas ot Lens Lucas ot Margaret Batty CO Kristi Collins TX Jennifer Paxton IL Sharon Jacobs---Salinas TX Aila Spinelli Babino CA Clare Nettleton GA
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Jean McFerson IA Mary Lasky MO Allison Sanders NM Rachel Korman NY Terry Navarrete AB Patty Campochiaro NM Beth FL I as a consumer have no problem Discontinuing purchasing any of your products unless changes are made . Libba Miller TN robert mickelson MI maureen ursery KY no more Driscoll strawberries for me
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Madelynn Frazier MO Fair wages and decent working conditions is NOT too much to ask ANY employer. Don't buy from suppliers who aren't willing to do this. Rita Heinz OR I have frequently bought Driscoll berries. I'm very disappointed that your company is not more socially conscious. Jennifer Estrada OH Terry Schaunaman ND Barbara Olencki MI To underpay farm workers while making good money off of their labor is similar to what the Nazis did to concentration camp workers. It is the same basic concept of disrespecting human life to fulfill one's low self--- esteem and ego. Whether in this world or at the pearly gate, karma will haunt Driscoll's for continuing to purchase from Sakuma Brother's. Where is your self respect?? How can you, Driscoll's continue to let this happen to human beings with families, who have human emotions, live and breath just like you and me? PLEASE STOP purchasing from Sukama Brother's!! Trish Salmon NC william guthrie VA David Caperton FL Jon Miller MI larry shaffer PA Patrick Taylor CA Damon Brinson TX Robert Applegate NE Jennifer Ruth IL Pat Gellert WI Sharon Miranda OH Not gonna buy them raspberries no more. Gabriella Nunez VA Blair Norman CO Amy Pavao FL Helen Baker RI Jerad Volkmar IL Geoffrey Guttmann TX Michael Anderson CO Linn Kier CA Marguerite Hamilton NJ James Corgan NY Linda Todd NM Jenny Jimenez CA Stella trudel VA Lori Misura CT Jill Tombari CA Jerome Kammermeyer NC Stop buying Sakuma Brothers Berries until they set up fair wages for their workers. It's the right thing to do! Joel McKinzey GA Please support a living wage for the people who do the hard work, thank you. Jewel Hall OR herman Hardy PA sarah owensby NC Janice Banks NH
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Belinda Paysinger CA Erich Bauman IL Stephen Dynako IL Hoda Tabet CA charles parent VT Shelley Alonso CA John Brunt PA Daniel Tham CT Carlene Estacion AZ Hollis Dolben MA Hillary Loring TX Amanda Schmidt CA Rita Raftery NJ Corey Mondello MA jackie verdugo AZ John Lopez NV Edith Mann NY Wendy Hutchins VT Mitchell Sendrowitz MA Don White FL Deborah W. Harris VA trina rowles BC LEE HIGH CO Carole Maley PA T Snyder PA Joan Lowe MI maral balian NY larry lewis TX I picked raspberries and strawberries for 2 summers as a young teen in Puyallup and will never forget how hard the work is. --- Treat those who do the real work in your company with respect. Costco does and their profitability has not suffered... roy petty TX Margaret Mathews NY Mary Franz CA Diana Atchley CA I don't want to save money on berries knowing someone is barely surviving and had harsh working conditions picking them. David Brultz WI Keri Bolain FL Julie Radzwion MI Barbara Johnson CO LILLIAN CUTSHALL LA We have Driscoll berres in our Krogers. I have bought their organic berries. I will stop doing even that until I hear that a fair contract with Famlias Unidas for la Justicia has a fair contract negotiated. Joanna Symmonds TX Kristine Robinson CO Laura Cornetta MA vilma Fotos FL Kirsten Romberg AZ Richard Chapman VA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Christel Markevich CO Peter Lee CA Bonnie BOCK PA And there is no need to raise the price of the berries --- just have the CEO's and top leadership take a pay cut in order to pay workers fairly! If you can't pay a fair wage you should not be in business! Rose Rooney WA Sakuma should negotiate with the workers! In this case, the bottom line is workers health and welfare vs corporate greed. I will not put my money in the pocket of any corporation that follows or supports that mindset. Jacinto Mogena NJ Tina Florell ot Kristen Kelly TX elizabeth koopman MD fairness/a place for labor at the bargaining table------must proceed berries on our dining tables!! John O'Connor NJ Stephen Dempsey PA Melissa Santiago NC Jeff Duitch IA Brenda Baron SC Driscoll, you need to stop purchasing from Sakuma Bros. until they will negotiate a fair contract. Arnold Patent CA Katrina Engelson CA Mary Stella CA Joseph Lawson NC John Bush PA K Richardson PA Judy Martens OH Joyce Weir WA Paul Martin OR Robert Kwiecinski NJ Linda Amity PA Linnell Krikorian NH Chandra Stephens CA Catherine Whiteside TX Nicole Stratton IL Paual McMinn OK Judie VL CA Vincent Quagliana FL Anthony Cowan FL Only an idiotic company would harm the workers making their business possible. Sakuma is a moral disgrace. Nanette Oggiono MA Jeffrey Phillips VT Barbara Simon PA Denice Peterson--- WA Greene gigi gaulin NM Heidi Scott FL Evelyn Ball MB
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Kathleen Maher NJ Lauro Jimenez CA Maurya McCall VI Marj kearns CA Susan Cox NY Jeannette Muzima MA Dear Driscoll's: --- We love your berries, and appreciate being able to enjoy them. However, the knowledge that you source these berries from Sakuma Brother's is very troubling because we have learned that they refuse to negotiate fair wages and conditions with their workers. ------Until Sakuma respects the workers and comes up with a fair wage and decent working conditions, we will have no choice but to stop buying from Driscoll's. I hope it won't come to this. ------Respectfully, --- Jeannette Muzima Patrice P.---Martel QC M D NJ To Driscoll's: --- I will not buy your products until and unless your sources treat their workers humanely. nancy zebracki MI Robert Miller MT Anne Erikson VT JULIE LORENZ IL chris danne FL Heather Perry CA judyth babst MN Matthew Stein OH Shirley & Bobbie McKibbin MT Irving Shapiro MD Mary Green IL Elsje van Munster NY Ruby McBride TX Ann Curtis WI margaret Rosenthal ID Mark Angel CA Sandra Goldsberry CT Margaret Cole WA Alex Mooney WA amy schumacher OH B.A. McClintock HI I do/did buy your products. I will not until this is resolved. Kim Fowler CA Leigh Barnett IL John Alley WA I buy Driscoll's products Alex Knapton UT Don Fonshill NJ martin Bernard TX Frances Jones IN Patti Tomasello NC david fleshmen VA just Do the right thing and all will be ok Agnes Gillespie MD CA Mark Dempsey CA Vickie McAlister OR
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Eileen Richter MN Lynda Larsen WA Lynda LaHue CA Alex Graas GA Jennifer Nelson MA Linda Bradbury AK Jeff Cannon FL Sue Miller OH I thought Driscoll's was the best berry brand of all, but having learned of your cooperation with the shameful practices of Sakuma Brothers, I've decided not to buy another Driscoll's product until you support a fair contract for the abused farmworkers. And I will tell friends and family about this------and my grocery stores. Laura Algiere NY I have often bought Driscoll's strawberries, but will not do so until you source from a company with just practices. Rebecca Collias WA david werenka AB I will not knowingly buy berries from Sakuma Brothers. jack bubenick SC Pay a fair wage or we will not buy your products Gerard Ziobro NJ Please stop buying and selling Sakuma Brothers berries until the treat their employees better and give them a descent working wage. Thamk you Angelica Regueiro NC Chris Klopp WI I will avoid your products until you make sure workers are treated fairly. These are people who deserve a reasonable life like anyone else. Janet Beck SC I LOVE strawberries, but your brand is off my radar until I know better. How about doing the right thing? Jary Stavely CA Jeffrey Findeis CA Marion Corbin NY Toni Menninger PA max evans CA Andrew Lenz MA Sabrina McKendrick AB Marc Conrad IL Connie Simmons FL Be fair with these important workers!! Peter Bovio MA Gloria Lionz WA Anne Osborne OH Your berries are good, but I do not want to support a company whose suppliers do not treat their workers fairly. Paul Palek OH This is an issue in many industries but particularly in farming. It is necessary to have good workers to harvest these products while protecting the plant and crop, so why not treat them fairly..? Amy Aponte IL Kathleen Bungarz CA Wendel Peterson CA florence Brown CT I will stop buying Driscoll berries. Marvin Stotz OH Yasiu Kruszynski IL
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Pauline Osofsky CA As a regular purchaser of Driscoll I'm ashamed of hearing about the bad working conditions of the very people that are the legs of the Company. Without workers, the business cannot thrive. Why even waste time, energy & money on things that can lead to a potential Boycott? Renegotiate a living wage for your laborers & their families. Karen B NC I buy your organic berries but will forgo them if your workers are not treated fairly. Ginny Lowey AZ I will not buy Driscoll berries until Sakuma bros. Pay their workers fairly and give them a good contract . Sandy Lawler NH Virginia Frantz OK All my friends ask "Are they Driscoll Berries" when a new shipment comes in. We consider them the BEST. Please make sure workers who produce them on theSakama Brothers farms receive fair wages and decent working conditions! Heather Steele ID Pat Johnston MN I purchase Driscoll's all the time. But that will stop is you continue to use products from Sakuma. J S WA Marie Knapp CA Patrice Geise PA Felpe Garcia CA bita edwards CA Eileen Weeks CA larry ebert NY Its only fair. We reap as we sow. Paul Kolak MI Judith Foote IN Kat Dancer AR Michael Gore CA Patricia marrero NY Mickie Meyer WA So sad to hear that Driscoll purchases berries from Sakuma Brother's, a company that refuses to negotiate fair wages for their workers. Until that happens, I will no longer purchase Driscoll products. Jon Harrell FL I buy Driscoll brand organic berries from whole foods. I believe that an important part of the organic movement is the fair compensation of the workers whose labor actually gets the products to us consumers. How can one enjoy or support a product when workers are being exploited? Susan Levine WA Desiree Chumbler IL Sarah Stewart MA Diane Gluck MI Glenn Bornsen CA Mir Domurath KY Charlie Biel IN I have seen Driscoll berries in stores all over the world. With that sort of volume, the cost per berry would be too small to effect marketing. Why should anyone be suffering in such a successful enterprise? Make it happen. Larry Hennis MN roy jones MN
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C. Moorehead NC christine schnebly ID Bethany Thompson ME Melanie Ritter CO Lynn Kearney CA Chris Ewing LA Marleen Neus AL Barbara Brooks NJ Labor made ths country great. Honor Labor! Jerome Rickert IL I buy lots of your fruit. I guess I will have to look elsewere. debra jaranowski SC Carol Barbee OR Joanne Addis CA Everyone deserves fair wages for fair work and humane working conditions! Do the right thing, Driscoll's!!! Jane Abrams TX Be advised I will no longer buy your products! Supporting Sakuma is supporting the slavery of their workers! Sydell Howitt FL Kierstin Carlson PA Almost all the berries I buy are from Driscoll's, but if the workers at Sakuma aren't treated fairly, I won't be buying anymore. Please take a stand. T Garmon GA John Noles CA We are deeply troubled by your partnership with Sakuma Brother's Farm in Washington State. Shinann Earnshaw OR Does Sakuma remember what happened to their Japanese ancestors during World War II? Now are they doing the same thing to their workers? Matthew Thompson CA Shannon Bullock MN Dorothy Neill WA Kelsey Jensen NV Jeanne Hevener NE Scott Green CA Kathi Robinson PA Everyone deserves a fair price for the work that they perform. It is one of the original statutes which has made this country as great as it is. While we do have our problems, situations like this can and should be alleviated by arbitration within the company itself. When the Co is not willing to arbitrate, it is only fair the workers have the right to ask to go beyond normal channels. Therefore, all they are asking is a temporary show of support. I believe we owe it to them. John Rybicki NY Paul Zendzian MA Carol Mone CA Karen Pylar MI David Yusem CA Martin Coffey PA Carole Lees CO Tammi Hvozda MD Tracy Callow WI Heike Behl CA Dave Evans ON
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Dicron Meneshian CT Karen Liao CA Cathy Wootan OH Diane Hardee WA Melanie Pasinski NY Margaret Mew CA Nalei Kahakalau HI Naomi Turbidy MA Jahnavi Stenflo CO NO MORE DIRTY AGRICULTURE!!! Leslie Mercer CA Joy Halpern WA I will stop buying your products until it is reported that you have changed your treatment of farm workers. Nancy Harlow CO Alaina Johnson NY Lawrence East NC Deborah Walsh MN Judy Pearson TN Crystal Wolf NM marie lucius WY Art Jessee OR Dudley Delany PA Teresa Fletcher OR Corinne Monk OH Dave Carlson MN Mike Paturel AB We will not buy your product until you negotiate with the working and give them a fare wage and decent working condition. Nancy Juskowich PA Andrea Smith OK stephanie hylton WA Frances Cruz PR steve adler IL Elizabeth Bartlett TX The people who make the products available for market deserve to make a safe and ecent living from their work. Driscoll should stop supporting and aiding their abusers. Michael McMahan CA Jan Sappington MO Isn't there something (in humanity) called minimum wage to help workers be able to take care of themselves? Liz Buckalew VI judith dove MD Janet Zampieri AZ Darcie Anderson MN Guy Lawson CO pay them fairly as you make HUGE profits Lena Lurie ON C Seuss NY Janet Louk CA Nancy Jacques WA Peter Cragg TX J Seuss NY Maureen Cox TX
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Jeanne Walton PA M Fatiuk NY Bruce Brinker CA Houston Wong WA L Fatiuk NY Jeane Buer MN Carolyn Heppner WY Debbie Mullins NC Mark Heald TN Gay Seuss NY Fred Barnes IL Carl Oerke Jr NJ I love Driscoll's raspberries but would boycott them for justice for farm workers as much as I would hate to do so. Andrew Trowbridge VA Rudy Salazar CO Jean Reiher OR I used to buy Driscoll berries at my local Safeway store. I will no linger purchase them unless your suppliers negotiate a fair contract with their employees. Larry Ulrey IN Marja Vom Dorp CA Laraine Steele CO Catherine Leach ON Please hold this company accountable and ethical or I and my family & friends will no longer purchase Driscoll berries, which we like. It's important: people before profits. Remember that. Michael Miller Jr PA Loretta Emanuele PA Cyrus Appell WA Michael Henderson CA Anne Jaramillo CA Harriet Mullaney CO As a Driscoll's customer, it troubles me that it is not grown and harvested in just and fair conditions. Leigh Begalske WI emma mead MI People matter, especially those that harvest food for the rest of us. Show them they matter. Account for part you take in the atrocities that plague our world and take the steps to fix them. JOAN Curran MA PLEASE NEGOTIATE A FAIR CONTRACT WITH YOUR WORKERS Soraya Homayouni MD Please treat your workers humanely. I pledge not to buy your brand of berries until you public ally commit to ending the abuse & then back up that commitment with visible action as proof. Alexander Clark PA Yasmin Leon CA Kelly Stefano GA Michael Mauldin NY I will no longer buy Driscoll's products and will discourage others from purchasing. This is absolutely disgusting. DAVID YOUNG MO Doraine Raichart WA Karen Stacey IL Rita Larkin IL Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia!!
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Cheryl Vigoda FL Marilyn Lamm KS Mike Weltman OR Shash Broxson FL Lyndsey Schwartz CA Christopher Dowling TX Larry Kavan MI Debra Van Way WV Stephanie Glover ot Rachel Cosgrove VT d ruger CA Jarred White CT Leslie Kowalczyk CA Alice Halbeisen MA Jeanne Koopman MA Diana Soleil CO Monica Ness CA Driscoll you are a trusted berry distributor and I am very disappointed to hear that you are involved in supporting Sakuma brother's farms. Please demand a fair wage for workers who support your business. B Marsted CA Diane Goldberg FL Workers deserve fair wages & good working conditions. David Singer NY alisha leviten WA Marlene Warkoczewski PA Deb Fritzler VA All people deserve the chance to have a fair wage, to be abuse free an d support themselves and family. Do the right thing Driscoll. Thank you. Jill Twark NC Pay your workers a fair wage, and I'll buy your berries again. Ray Bustos CA Megan Hayes OK Kathleen Gamet SD Lewis Kuhlman WI Denny Thorson MN Win Southworth NC I have trusted you in the past and look forward to trusting you again. Please help us all seek justice for all. Natalie potts IL Tom Reichel MI Joseph Stasey IN Jenna DiFeo NV Ward Stalnaker AZ We're counting on you Ronald Howard MI Heath Beaver CO We will choose other fruits as well as berries from other companies as long as Driscoll's supports Sakuma Brothers. Judith Commons CA amy pick NY Laura Rice MI Daniel Tiarks CA Barbara Zaha IL Rolf Taylor VA John Wesselink WA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms k.a. vazquez CA SEan Lancaster WI This goes without saying, and yet U.S. citizens still continue to sit on their hands and say this does not bother me or my family so why should I care. Oh the joy of those rose colored glasses wear. Robyn Menotti AL Cynthia Torelli NV Ann Sorenson WA I live in the Skagit Valley and will not be purchasing anything from Sakuma Brothers until workers have a fair contract. Danielle Sukkaew WA g p CO Joey Colbert OR Honor labor, Driscoll, stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers. Bethany Cates IL Heather Davidson WA Sant Subagh Khalsa WV Mary Finch CA Marion Douglas CA I buy your products every week. I'd hate to have to go looking for a new company but I will because I am passionate about workers rights. Michael E. Mizell TX This is unacceptable business practice. Workers must receive fair wages and work conditions. Zelamaria Garcia CA J. Dana Forbes IL vicki macina OH Rose Biancini MN Julie Shepard CT norman nelson CA Jennifer Long IL ed bell NY I buy your organic berries exclusively. Do the right thing or you lose a long time customer. Thanks Aimee Charbonneau LA Toni Swords CA cynthia fava TX Fred Grieco MN As a coop member for many years, it is important that my food is healthy and the workers who help bring food to my table are treated fairly. Please help in this situation. I would be disappointed if you did not act. And it would be my duty to then boycott Driscoll's. Alan Rathsam OR V McPeak OH Would you treat your Father, Mother, Brother or Sister this way? Or want someone else to treat them the way you are treating these workers? How about if YOU were treated this way? Would that work for you? Mary Ann Schmieding NE Please do the right thing and pressure Sakuma Brother's to negotiate with their workers. Pierce Delahunt NY Richard Elbert MN Terry Smith WI Please negotiate, in good faith, with Familias Unidas por la Justica!! Amy Conley NH Francesca Droll CA I buy Driscoll berries all the time. I'll stop purchasing Driscoll until Sakuma Brother's negotiate a fair contract with its workers. Roger Williams IN
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Bobbie Knight CO Angela M. Garcia---Johnson OH Fair treatment of employees is necessary for a company to have faithful customers. Count me out until I see proof that workers are fairly compensated. Chris Konieczka OR Juanita Hepler ID Robert Mc Keon OR Diane Pease NH Anita Mills TX I usually buy Driscoll over other berries because I know Driscoll means quality product. Now Driscoll needs to mean fair contracts! Mary Brady IA Farm labor is the most difficult labor, with the possible exception of underground mining, in the some of the very wealthiest most world. It is hard to believe that greedy CEO's want the farm laborers to work for literally no money, no benefits and worst of all, no respect. This is very, very bad Karma for corporation leaders who are guilty of this. They will find out the hard way, due to their savage greed, that bad Karma never forgets. Concetta Newman AZ IM Orenstein MA Linda Newkirk AL Mary E. Stone CA I buy Driscoll's berries all year long, every year. I won't be able to continue that habit this year, however, unless and until I learn that the dispute with Sakuma Brothers workers has been resolved equitably. Please do the right thing: field workers deserve fair wages & decent working conditions. Jake Burkey NV Steve Schweitzer CO James and Joan Tomczyk NJ Jemma Baitalmal CA Harla Partridge MN Susan Stout BC Peter Listino PA Our workers and our food. PAY THEM FAIRLY! Linda Kamp CT I buy only Driscoll's berries, but will forego them until this dispute is resolved. Alexis Moore FL Denise White FL Gabriella Dunlevy VA Diana Lunceford GA Mary Meischke WA Quality produce is important to my family and I will only pay the premium to obtain it from companies that do right throughout their supply chain. Gary Jansen WI lynn marcus CA David Walker PA Walker Everette NY Judith Webster MN d miller NM Janette Pink BC
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Nicholas Pestalozzi NM Cheryl McGraw NC julia genetti IL Leslie Gold NY Jamie Rosenblood CA Donna Neumann NM Matthew Perez AZ Janice Thompson IA Lynn Prine FL Janette Golden OH Bev Bryson BC James Mullen CA D. Javorka WA Ana Herold CA Janet Gedeon FL Karen Keene AZ Marianne Jimenez AZ I will not purchase Driscoll's berries until I hear that a FAIR contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia is signed. Rev. Dr. Ronald L. Sims MO
Aleks Kosowicz WI Joe Buhowsky CA Tom Guobis WA Laura Robinson WA I am willing to pay more for fruit that is picked by workers who are paid a fair wage and work under humane conditions Please ensure that your sources of berries are respecting workers' rights. Kim Norwood IL Kenny Vaher NY Kasey Crispin NV Samael P. Lamarre QC Steve Iverson CA Jules Howard MT I am asking you to support fair working conditions and wages by halting your purchases from a company that does not! Pamela Hatfield FL Anne Noire UT Are my organic raspberries poisoned by unfair work conditions and starvation wages? Well then, I'll be buy frozen berries I know are not until you only distribute fair trade fruit. Susan Kirkbride OR Barbara Wilks NY Steven Yanoff NM Geraldine Gregg NY Martha Goodale ME Ruth Apter WA Driscoll you have the power to help. Please do the right thing. The good PR you will receive and the message that other growers will get from this action will do all of us some good. We want healthy food and fair wages and conditions for farm workers. Beneth Browne CA Mia Elias CA dave kay FL
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Alexei Folger CA Karen Boethel TX Laurie Forbes BC Janet Kahle CA Mr.Shelley Dahlgren, PhD WA Debbie Puett MO Everyone in the US, if hired by a company, deserves to be paid a fair wage for work and to be provided decent working conditions. Please uphold this right by only purchasing from companies who do so as well. It is the right thing to do. Please stop purchasing from Sakuma Bros. until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Thank you... Andre Holmes NM WTF ! Jim Gleckler WA Chris Gray IL Wendy Olney---Rattel OR leslie klein CA Gina Giaccardo PA Kim Stein OR Our family buys hundreds of dollars of your berries each year. We want our money, and your brand, to support fair wages and treatment of farm workers. If you have to raise your prices slightly, do so, but make a profit and a just world! Peter McCumber WV Janet Lai CA Robert Console MA Matthew Pidgeon WA I buy Driscoll organic berries regularly, but unless you boycott Sakuma farms until they negotiate a fair labor contract, I will have to abstain from future purchases. I have many friends and family members who are with me on this. Joan Detrick WA Diane Hashem NH A Feig CT Douglas Petok CA diana white NY Do the right thing! Sharon Callahan NJ Tina Corbett MT J. Ammon OH Play fair...God and consumers are watching Tara Kerksick MO Beverly Levinson VA Please boycott Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate a fair contract. Laura Dafni CO Melissa Pust PA Kim Chamberlain CA Mahala Frye WA I am willing to pay a bit more for my berries knowing that workers are able to live. Glen Colwell CA Driscoll, please stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! Pat Dufau CA Robert Yazell CA James Felizola WA Susen Shapiro NJ
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Suzanne Tighe ON I refuse to buy Driscoll berries until the workers at Sakuma Brothers agree to pay their workers a fair wage and are treated with respect in good working conditions., It's disgraceful that the workers have to ask the public to boycott that which pays their 'livelihood'., Nicholas Wienholz OR Francine Miller NY deb doolittle RI Pamela Engler WA Helene Hall CO Mary Williamson TX Aaron Novack AZ Steve Yaffee CA lonna richmond CA everyone deserves to earn a living wage and farm workers are no exception. Kat Stephens CA Angelic Rubalcava CA S. Etherton NY Jane Bryony---Shaw BC We won't be buying any of your fruit until we hear that you are paying your workers appropriately. * Zentura WY Donna Heinlin IN jude misurelli DE Paul Servizio NM Richard Stuckey IL Jeanne Hickey IN No Driscoll's berries will make it into my home until this is resolved. lisa bornfriend CO Marc Hoffman PA kathy questo CA Will not buy any driscoll's.They have become some what tastless. anyway. Maria Gomes FL Kirk Shank Zehr VA Tom Hick IN amy flores CA Margaret A. Holt AZ As much as I love Driscoll berries (straw, blue, and rasp), I will not purchase their brand from this day on until I am informed that they are treating their employees in a humane and civil manner. Jonathan Sirotek CO Jennifer Luna---Repose CA DONNA GABEHART IL Suzanne Enser RI Kevin Richardson MD Helen Seiler IL Sharon Kumpf CA RONALDO VENGCO CA Faith Willcox ME Sarah Richardson WA R Rivera CA Barb Gilligan MN
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Anne Smith CA Fruit just rots in the field without the workers that pick it. Do the right thing: demand, support and pay fair wages. melissa li IL Richard d ME vicki hughes CA Nancy Alfuth MN B. Rodriguez CA karen garnett CA Philly Meyers GA sue mason CA danice miller WA Anne Sweeney ME You have the power and the influence to persuade Sakuma Brothers to treat their workers fairly. Please use it. We will resume buying your berries when you do that. Thank you. Michaela Kissinger CA Katherine Wuthrich IL Please boycott Sakuma Bros. We --- buy our berries from Whole Foods --- and Mariano's. If we must, we will --- boycott Driscoll. We are for unions and fair labor for all. Mary McMahon PA lois foster OR Current prices to consumers is well high enough to pay farmworkers a decent wage. I won't buy Driscoll until I hear they've done the right thing. Support human kindness and human survival. How would YOU like to live on the wages farmworkers make ? Pam O. CA Let's be fair to all. Javier Pinzon MA TA Adams NV Margaret Eells MA Martha Williams CA I will not purchase Driscoll berries until you stop purchasing them from Sakuma Brothers. Farmworkers deserve better! sara warriner MN Charles Martinez CA Sally S Taylor CA Driscoll: You are a very large company and therefore in a position to do a lot of good. Please do it. Thank you. Barbara St. Pierre CA diana kliche CA Susan Niese CA chirs kramer NC Llew Taylor PA elizabeth mullen NY michael woltering MO Edward Rengers NY Lisa Buehler MT Courtney Cole GA Mary Rowe ID Richard Doney BC Tifni Lynch WA Sabreena Barton AZ I stand with Familias Unidas por la Justicia and will not purchase any of your products until a fair living wage can be settled on. Kenyon Gross KS Support justice in the food industry!
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Alan Banks MD Sarah Wildwood CA diana smith NC PAUL TAUBLIEB NY Julie Ranieri CA Wendy Weldon FL ann halloway IL M. SMITH TX James DiMunno NY Negotiate squarely with your field workers or I don't buy Driscoll berries any longer! Patricia Jacobs FL jose luis CA Angela Schatz MA Christopher Schrader OH David Ramirez TX Mz Conner OH Corporate rules as the normal order of the day... ------Crime does not pay? It's paying the lobbyists. No justice in that. Barbara Stratton WA I love berries, but I most definitely won't buy yours, and will encourage everyone I know not to do so also unless you support Familias Unidas by refusing to buy from Sakuma Brothers until they reach a fair and binding agree ment with Familias Unidas. Susan Peirce CO Joan Clague TX stephen barr AZ Madeline Rivera CA Sarah Iannelli WA Jay McCaman MI Kara Deen CA j roebuck CA Phoebe Harding WA Joanna Bonnheim CA David Turgeon ON I will no longer purchase Driscoll berries until a fair settlement has been reached. Brynn Cullerton IL Rachel Wolf CA David McCallister ID Margaret Ellis NJ Charles Mitchell OH Martha Lammers TN James & Rita Grauer OR Barbaraw Williams WA Naomi Zarch CA Stephanie Taddeo CA Michelle Davis CA Ian Irving CA Barry D'Orazio AZ Michael Reitz OH Elke Hoppenbrouw CT ers www.fairworldproject.org 129
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms leslie babson IL Nancy Sosnove WA I buy lots of your berries, but I don't want to support exploitation of the workers who pick them. Todd Snyder CA Maria Moniz MA Richard Schwager CA Nancy Carey OR Donna Charter TX Doe Tabor OR Susan Dusharme CA I will not be buying any more Driscoll berries or other products until I am notified by Fair World Project that Driscolls has entered into a fair contract with Familias Unidas por las Justicia. I am willing to pay more for your berries to insure fair wages and working conditions for your workers. Viki Bissinger NY mary platten WI Fair pay and protection of my brothers and sisters working in the fields ! Doris Karnila MA Sakuma. Bitter berries? Arielle Zurzolo CA Markie Pringle NC Tacey Conover OR Julie Mitchell HI Demelza Costa OR Antanas Vainius PA Cris D'Angelo FL When are we finally going to get to the point where farm workers are treated fairly and humanely??? Carrie Barclay CA Nicole Jessup SC katie b CA John Sevanick CT Jennifer Lowry TN Rita Coriell CA Shauna Pickett---Gordon CA jerold huebner NY Paul Franzmann WA I've been a fan of Driscoll organic products for some years (Safeway Foods), but I'll wait to continue until you properly address this labor issue to the satisfaction of Sakuma Bros. farmworkers. They are our neighbors, families and friends and contribute to the communities where we live. Debi Wehrmann NJ Carol Gottesman OH rhoda seidler CA Robert Wohlberg MN Elena Rumiantseva WA Kathleen Turmaine BC Mark Hessman WA Ron Koenig WA Sandra Sandri ot
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Robert Wood MD Ensure a fair wage and decent working conditions. Consumers hold the power of purchase. Greed KILLS!!!! Joline Stone NM You need to do the right thing. Catherine Sikora TX Debra Anderson UT Fairness to those who work hard to provide our sustenance is necessary and right! Juli Jakub NY barbara maness FL Barbara Stefl CA Everyone deserve a fair wage and decent working conditions, especially farm workers. Please help this happen. Thank---you Angela Earp CO Mary TRUE HI Barbe Chambliss CO I buy Driscoll berries weekly, but I will discontinue doing until Sakuma Brother's negotiate better pay and decent working conditions, or until Driscoll choose to source their berries elsewhere. Keep me posted, please. David & Suzanne Florin WI
Amber Manske TX Rucha Harde ot Tom Hayes CO Not cool, Jason Kemple NJ Kata Orndorff AZ John Brewer OH Ellen Buikema AZ cate andrews WA Timothy Simmons WV Shari Bell VT Jill Burnham CA dean mcmillen BC Stop The Madness !!!!!!!!! Barbara Abels OH I have consumed literally hundreds of boxes of your berries. I will forego these until you stop purchasing from Sakuma bros, or until they treat workers in a humane manner. Yasmina Samahy TX Pamela Swallow NJ Nora Polk OR James & Darlene Jakusz WI cynthia murphy FL pa hess AZ SHALOM HARLOW NY Jan Hansen CA Don't do business with Sakuma Brothers until they agree to negotiation! Giselle Achecar WA Suzanne Omiatek FL magesh hariharan CA stella b. CA Paul Dougherty NJ Julia Mckenzie BC Patrick Hollis PA
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Kendal Kuneman MI Lucy Clark HI Nick Hood NC Christina Mericle WI Doree Lipson NY Jacob Ferriera CA Driscoll, I will not buy your berries anymore unless this current issues is addressed appropriately. Robin Wilson IL Jocelyn Keene CA crystal silver FL Stephanie Soquet OR Megan Lambrecht AB Judith E. CA Maureen Besancon CA Ann Rennacker CA Ann Lopez OR Anna Habetler CA Thomas Wolslegel MA Nathan Vogel CA Christine Pikala MN Ronald Zampa CA Michelle Gibson KY Please negotiate a fair wage with your farm workers. --- thank you! Janet Lipstreu OH I USED TO purchase Driscoll...I will boycott until something is done with the Sakuma Brothers. Jayleen Hatmaker OH becky marshall WA Fair wages for all!! Raina Phillips OR Yotam Lev NY Thomas Horsch VA Joan Chryst OH Ingrid Seidel CA Please do the right thing! We are all brothers. Thank you Juliana Benner ID Virginia Bormann WI Ernest Jones IN Beth Cagnoni OR Daniel Giesy VA Juanita Hull UT Betty Flinchbaugh PA Pamela Boyar HI I will boycott Driscoll berries for now. It's a shame. I so enjoy them. Gregory Traylor OH David Hermanns OR Naomi Candello CA Farm workers deserve fair pay. Are you profiting from their low wages? Eileen Naber CA This is shameful! I will no longer buy your berries until you act responsibly and treat your workers with the respect they deserve and a wage that is fair. Does anyone at Driscoll's or Sakuma's have any moral conscience? Doesn't appear that you do. Howard Spivak CA Leslie Washington GA
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Kathleen Burke NV Deb Millikan IN Melissa Riley CO These are important issues that effect all of us. --- Please do what is right for the individual and you do what is right for all. Art Krueger IL Will not buy Driscoll berries until you terminate purchases from Sakuma Brother's Farm until they allow a legal binding contract and Familias Unidas por la Justicia calls an end to the boycott. ana maria pimentel MI Angela Hillier FL Our family will find a new source for berries until Driscoll stops supporting Sakuma! Shame on you! Harry Freiberg OR Kimberly Walter CA Please do the right thing and boycott Sakuma Brothers! Aaryn Blain MA Janet Walton CA Anna Thurman CA Lisa Estrin OR I will not be buying any Sakuma Brother's produce this year. Driscoll I have put you on my boycott list, too. Darlene Schanfald WA I have long purchased Driscall's berries. I will stop until this is settled in favor of fair worker rights. While I can survive well without your berries, workers survival are more important. Janet Cavallo PA Jeffrey K. Klein IL Roger Nystrom WA Jaci Anson MD Everyone deserves a fair wage and descent working conditions. Julie Stradel---Graf MN James Burke MA Arkady Vyatchanin FL Claudia Gemmer MD Cheryl Shannon CA Irina Doronin WA Laetitia Benador CA elaine embrey CO Patricia Bigelow CT Frank Stieber WA Camilla Schneider CA I'm willing to pay for fair wages in the cost of my food. Kathryn Lemoine LA Judith Maron---Friend OR Hope Shand NC Susan Harrison NV Celeste Bianco CA I love Driscoll's berries, but I will no longer buy them until Sakuma negotiates with its workers for fair wages and safe working conditions Jennifer Sprague WA Hillary Werhane CA Driscoll's, do the right thing please!! Carol DeAntoni CO Gary Sanders CA Eileen Weisinger NY Heather Evans MO I often buy Driscoll's organic berries, but I will boycott until this issue is resolved. Shayne Bourque TX Everyone deserves fair wages and decent working conditions.
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Vincent Nicoletti CO I prefer your brand but would be willing to boycott your product if your company doesn't respect workers. lauren Ornelas CA Heather Reynolds CA Pat Weaver CA Ginger Hill SC Sonia Dalley MA Laurence Roussel HI Shirley Hoyle WA Put yourself in their shoes! Susan Canning CA Karen Gray IN Heidi Hierl---Schulze ot James Zeman SD T. Welch CA ROBERT ATKINSON CA I buy your products weekly and appreciate the availability and quality. However, you do have competitors that I would prefer to support if some actions is not taken to address supporting the disrespected, underpaid and horribly treated workers who do the work to bring us these products. mary lasley OR it is only fair to negotiate Paul Naylor OR JoAnn Keller CO We want a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Mohammad Nazihi CA Alisa Adobajor ot Melody Englund OR Sylvan Grey OR Chris Paterson VT Disgusting, degrading ... James Brunton FL Nathan Burnell MI Linda Hee WA Please stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Melissa Middlebrook WA Mark Clipsham IA I used to buy Driscoll. I will again when things change. Jeanne Crowley OR Riki Heim NV Stan Hafferman ID Jeanette Thompson TX James Brunkow OR I want products I buy to be fairly traded. Wages and conditions that value all our contributions bring a standard of living that lifts us all up. Cristina Novelo ot Karen Lyke OH Dennis Wolff AR Roxane Dow NV Eddie Mckinney KS George Joseph AR Laura White AL Just do the right thing! Melissa Fleming MA Irene Huskisson AR Vaughan Shelby NY
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Anna Ralston AR Philip Rousseau CA Dale Russ WA I am a regular Driscoll Berry customer. Please stop doing business with this unethical company. Rose Easter AR Kim Lavigne UT William O'Rourke OH Gina Bradley CA Laura Hoffman CA Will Newman II OR Helen Bonaceto MA Elizabeth Evenson TX Kye Sangha CO I often buy Driscoll's organic berries for my partner & for work (I'm a private Chef). It's terribly sad to me that I need to stop doing that because people are being abused by those in power. But I don't want to use food that is laced with misery, poverty & corruption. So we are at an impasse. I hope you'll change that for the better. Valentina Snipes IL Amanda Gonzales CA Amy Cone MI Susan Lozoraitis MA Susan Joshua OR We are all one people. We are our brothers keeper. Liliana Diaz CA Suzanne Hamer WA Susan Baker IA cynthia bellini CO Evan Eisentrager MA Sarah Ryan FL Kathleen Kozlik FL Lynn and Roger Stapes OR Frances Strege IN Fairness for all! especially our farm workers! Nancy Earle ME Corey Wolfe ON Dot W. AZ malcolm wellington BC Patricia McKelvie CO J. Jackson PA Brian Gallagher VA Patricia Coffey WA Kelly Nichols NC Dennis Lesh ID JoAnn Uppena WI Kristina Fukuda---Schmid CA
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Deb Imershein SC Work should be a safe place that provides enough compensation for workers to live decently. Skylar Laham CA Andrea Kingston ot Allison Cox WA Melvin Taylor CA Angela Orozco CA Robert Blumenthal WA Robert Lyons TX Tom Falvey CA Alison Fortner MO Julia Pennington MI Kate Barnes CA Ravid Raphael CA Farm workers deserve a living wage. Susan Lydon CA Mark Avellan CA Stacie Budewitz CA I am a consumer. I will not purchase Driscoll's berries until farm worker's health and wages are addressed. mary Mastro ID ed napoleon VA Judi Williams CA joy kaye IL jane humphries CA Kirk Leonard OR George Hrebar IA Jim Thomas NC Joshua Gentile IL Mary Rooker MD I was buying your strawberries several times a week. Please negotiate a fair contract so I can enjoy Driscoll berries again! Rita Zielinski NY Tina Snyder NV Susan Combs TX patti spinelli NY David Allan CA Linda Hodson ot Laurie Lingemann CA Lorena Johns CA Ann Wilson MA James Fishgold AZ Georgia Fizdale CA Catherine Helmick OR Sarah Hafer OR nick leventis CA David L Stermer Sr PA Give these people a decent contract Jan Golick OR Tandy Thomas MI Joyce Angleberger MD Tammy Casteel MO Joyanna Shepherd IN www.fairworldproject.org 136
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Shelley Hedlund PA We buy your berries often--- We want to know they are fairly produced and people are being paid fairly. Putting this pressure on Sakuma brothers by not purchasing from them will require them to change. Judy Maravigli CA You can consider me a NON customer until I hear the workers are being treated fairly. --- Thank you for your attention. Susie Elleman CO Shame on those who take advantage of disempowered workers. Your behavior is directly comparable to that of slave owners. Can you really live with your shame? Ruth A. Yacko CA Gina Gilberto GA Edith Montgomery OR Sue Christiansen IA Paul Ryan CA Eva Vangi---Stern AZ Steve Aydelott OR Marguery Lee Zucker OR Leonard Thornton PA Susan Sebanc CO Catherine Gibbons MA Frances Blythe CA Carol nagle CA Support fairness for farmworkers! Victoria Wikle CA Nicole Moore ME While I love being able to buy delicious berries year---round, I cannot support a company that doesn't support the fair treatment of farm workers. They are providing your product, you should be willing to stand behind them in insisting they are paid a living wage. Charlene Graeber TX Daniel Lawrence FL C S FL Carolyn Coxon CA Andrew Axelrod NY normand dufresne HI Alan Beer FL Cece D CA Driscoll & Sakuma --- I'll omit these when I shop. Or --- be fair to your workers! Nancy Vienup NM sherry landsman NY Terry Tedesco--- AZ Kerrick Brenda Wilson NM Maria---Catharina Mura NE Pay workers fairly."The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck is repeating itself. It must stop. Harold T. Hodes NY Charlotte Arnold CT Karen Tucker FL Leo Ashton CA Ann Skibiski MA Darlene Walker AB Mark W. Mehl IN www.fairworldproject.org 137
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Tristan sophia MT Sheila Cook IL dean canter PA Gina Faro VT Jean Perry WA Amber Bonitatibus WV Arline Fass AZ Suzzanne Scauzillo WA shawn blaesing IA thompson Walter Bustos IL Robert Adams CO Until your suppliers negotiate honestly and openly with their workers, your products have no place on my table. Henry Weinberg CA Theresa Brooks AZ M F IN rachel imholte MN alma Romero CA Judy Brooks GU Chris Berg NC Michelle Clark NH Helena Stecher HI roberto leni CA Marta nerin CT sue davies CA carol mastan WA Anthony Tripp CA Melissa Nelson CA BOB HAGELE IL teresa raj AB dennis allen CA Ellen Singer OR Shelby Hood TN renee west CO Mari---Lyn Haarris CA I've always bought your berries as I know they are quality. By supporting farmworkers or any other workers abusively is not ok. Beatriz Pallanes CA Sarah Phillips WV Patricia Sorrell WI Nicole Smith CA Tim Butler CA William McHenry KS Sina Pierret CO Dorothy Tennies NM Colleen Pea IN Sarah Baker IL Cathei Christ IL I am a major berry consumer. However, I am driven by my ethics and cannot in good conscience consume a product made available through unfair labor practices. I hope you will do the same. www.fairworldproject.org 138
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Chris Madden PA If the workers who produce and process the food I eat are treated unfairly, I consider the food unfit to eat. Daniel Bernatowicz NY I actually used to use your product. It's a good product but not any longer in my household. Too bad. Randy Barlow MT Stephen Halpern NJ Gail Wilke CA Gilbert Boisvert ME Michael Oatman AZ Berry Bartolillo CA Kay McPherson MT Roger Staum NY Rick Anderson IL jason jackson OR Heather Peterson IL Sheila Robbings BC pervez paroo BC Will stop buying until conditions for workers improve. Andy Dral CA james bouvia OR Pay your workers. Phyllis Erwin VT KRISTA JOY NM AILEEN VEGA NJ Efrem Thomas AZ Barbara Bailey NE No more Driscoll berries for my family until this issue has been resolved. Tara Schmidlen PA Dallas Ige CA Rachel Kelley CA robert Lopez CA ric shimono WA al meyer ME Linda Masters MA Liza Martin WA julia jones ID Steve Oder OR Linda Kruhmin IL bob m NM Bonnie MacRaith CA sandra hyden MI Daryl Grant Lindsay DE Cyrus Sanchez CA Please stand up for fair pay Radha Patel NY Annmarie Lucchesi CA David O'Neill MD Peter Skelton MB Gerhard Borchers CA Laurence Margolis MN Barbara Dumas NY Renee Davidson IL tim thomas CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms barbara nathanson ME Jennifer Cox KY Sharyle Bell AK CE Corngold CA Ya---Nan Chou CA A. Todd OR Mark Marshall OR Do the right thing! Patricia Dishman TN Julio Sierra NY gerardo guarino FL Peter Cushen WA Nikki Duncan HI James Chaudoin FL Lou Ponig CA Kate Buttles AZ Please; could you just do the right thing and not buy from a company who in essence is using slave labor? Shame on them and shame on youl R. Susan Woods MA Helene Bank MA sharon simpson OH Jodi Mahan HI Richard Wilbur MT Dan Aurian---Blajeni MA Lynn Shoemaker WI Gregory Wayland TX Every person deserves a living wage for their work, no matter what the work is. John Ellison NY Michael Paglierani FL Kathleen Cunningham MA Richard Starry CA Beryl Beauchamp CO nancy scroggins CA Dmytro Schabla FL L. Parrish CA Phyllis Nwransky GA Have bought Driscoll's Strawberries for years, but no more until I know you will boycott Sakuma Brothers produce until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la justicia Ian Dogole CA Ann Marra WA Sandra Miller IN Becky Talyn CA Nick Tresko CA Rev. Edgar Brandt OR Paula Rosser TN Constance Bryden AZ Uta Crowder NC Rose Marie Stef PA Sarah Martinez CO David Doering CA
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Mary Rausch MN We avoided purchasing Driscoll's strawberries today despite the likelihood that they come from California rather than Washington's Sakuma Brothers. Food prepared at home is only 7% of the average American's income. We can do better. Please do your part and support healthy families instead of abuse. William Hofford OR Grey Issel CA Khalil Kinge MD laramie paxton CA Laurel Bishow PA Dale Blair PA Harlan Scott AZ Bonny Sallee WA Scott Carino CA Sarie Bryson CA Carl Sallee WA Betty Schuessler AZ Karen Fendrich NE Pan Row IN Linda Phillips WI G. Paxton NY George Blancas CA Patrick MacVittie FL Bev Thomas GA Sandra Lynn TX Robyn Cimerol PA Larry McChesney CT You guys boycott Sakuma Bros., or I'll boycott you! Everyone deserves a LIVING wage, not slave wages. Amalia Shebby CA Sara Holmes CT Carole Warner OR Patricia Daniels VA Elfriede doty NE Pay a livable wage. Cynthia George CA Zulma Gregory TX Zulma Gregory TX Zulma Gregory TX Margaret Landrum OH Elise Marks VT Joseph Pollock NY Patty Dolese AK Bob Jordan MO Sue E. Dean AZ Dee Potter OR Barbara King CA Ellen Gold CA Carol Corethers Box CA Driscoll's stop purchasin from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por Ia Justicia! Rosalie Canton TX
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Rick Auman NV Kostis Papaioannou ot Linda Turley TX Marian Baker Gierlach AZ Alison Denning CA Sarah Vrynios CO Guadalupe Brubaker CA Driscoll do not support Sakima's laborers' abuse. Times must change. Do not continue to support a harmful group to society. Carol Gray IN Rose M Matty CA Michael Magee AZ Vivianne Mosca---Clark OR Fair wages for a fair days work. What is the issue? Most likely greed. To not take care of the people making you money is sorta insane to me. Dory Young MA Lance Vilter CA Judy & Bob Gotthelf CO Joanne Horlbogen RI William Cline OH Betty Brooks ID Stan Hoffman OR Larry Karns WA Patricia O'Leary MD Wendy Silvius OH I want to know the products I am buying aren't cheap for me because someone else was exploited in the supply chain. Please honor your workers. pauline bedford CA colleen hausman FL DJ Curtis IL Evelyn Johnson CA alana ramsay BC jean molinari CA Chris Nadeau AB jeff mac donald ME AMY KONTRABECKI OH Leslie Jenkins NJ Donald W Fair PA Shaun Snyder CA Dan Meier IA Patricia Salvador FL joshua puterbaugh PA Donna Von Joo--- CA Tornell Rita Belford NJ A Beaulieu ON Mary Manuel NC We buy a lot of Driscoll's berries. My family was all farmers. Please treat the farmers fairly. robert smith OR
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Robert Heron CA We try to buy Driscoll berries whenever possible and they are often more expensive but always high quality. Please take necessary action to be sure that your growers are treating their workers fairly. Steve Vergara AZ Tom Henkel CO Frances Goff CA martin martinez AK you get good money for the fine product you sell. pay these people properly.. Rita Manning PA Kathy Walker ot Carol Weiss AZ Paul Leverone VA Janet L. Krawcke MI dennis barbier NJ Francisco Valle PR Jim Ruble NC diana Solomon CA Steven Tichenor OR James Matrix VA Emma Rivera Chaves MN Pamela Gardner FL Marygrace Hemme TN Joanne Halt FL Just wages please! Valeska Gann AZ Kenneth Tabachnick CA I will no longer buy your strawberries from Sprouts or Ralphs until you honor the labor dispute ongoing with Sakuma! Laura rose dailey NY Travis Sorensen WA Alex A Bobroff IL Mary Lou Buck NC Gary and judy ewald NY L Kuhar TN Benjamin A CA Linda Sheldon CA I always purchase Driscoll berries but now I have second thoughts. The quality is great but what's behind is not acceptable. No more Driscoll purchases until I hear they are doing something about this issue. Jeane Green CO I buy Driscolls, and will not buy any more till this is resolved. People need to make a living, Driscoll owes them for their work. Edwrd Blumstein IL mark Landers IL Wendy J VA B. Conelley MD Kaitlin Weisman CO Ari Meyer TX Jeffry Hanus NM JoAnne Soest IN d t ptak NY Nikolaos Milonas MA Christin Attebury CA
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Christy Cornelsen WA Patricia Thomas NV Donald Levesque IA Phyllis Freeman CA Rhonda Valdez NM Judy Pabst NY Sharyn White CA Anne del Prado TX I used to buy a lot of your blueberries and will buy them again, as soon as you stop buying from Sakuma Brothers, until they sign a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Thomas Maginniss VA Lindsay Schilling VT Albert Gamble RI Kerby Hyland WA This is pretty distressing that these issues with Sakuma Bros continues. I won't be purchasing Sakuma produce until they employ fair labor practices. It shouldn't take court orders to get Sakuma to be fair to their employees. Catherine McAfee AZ Robert Godes CA Debbie Ertola PA Sarah Reed CA Jeremy Shreve ID Noemi Pacheco CA Without the workers, there would be no Sakuma Brother's Berries. Please do what is right. Lionel Ortiz CA Dennis Oliver CA Suzan Clausen CA I buy your berries, but I intend to quit buying from you until I hear that you no longer use Sakuma Brother's berries or Sakuma negotiates a fair contract with their workers. Shirley Oberg MN Fair wages for the workers and their very --- important labor! Bhavani Indu OK Linda Nelson NY Amanda French MI Kelley Goodwin NH Vincent Maniscalco CT Bruce Burns CA kristen parrish TN B. K. NH Judith Ponder OR Nicole Tergeoglou HI Victoria Nevins CO Margaret Ungrodt AK I won't be buying Driscoll's berries from Fred Meyer stores until I read that you have stopped buying fro Sakuma Brothers or they have negotiated fair working conditions with the workers on their farms. Katherine Masotti WA janet rising NY Cory Shumaker CA Anita Watkins CA Joseph Harper NC
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Benjamin Lashbaugh CA Sandra Xenakis MI Rich Moser CA I buy Driscoll Organic Raspberries at Trader Joe's. Please don't give me a reason to stop. Toni Noll OR michelle gregory NV janet ievins OR Liz Sigel CA Susan Andre NC Willia & Dolores deezan@hotm FL ail.com Reilly Daniel NY Gregory miller NY Cindy Hildebrand IA C'mon, Driscoll, don't make me stop buying your products. Please do the right thing. De Ru NJ Ira Gerard IL Come on pay a decent wage, its only fair. susan r VT Philip Abrams MA Debra Berg HI Tom Sunlake IN sue colucci MI Julie Wissinger MN Kim L Harris NY Rebecca Lee FL Andrew Mix PA R. Moress WA Suzanne Law MD Ken Gorel MO Caitilin Terfloth SK Karen Johnson WA Maria Orzechowski NY Elissa Griffith--- MA Stop buying from SAKUMA BROTHER'S until there is a fair contract with Johnson workers. Help SAKUMA BROTHER'S to do the right thing! Nicole Mikals CA Thomas Giblin NY meg kettell NY Marion Marchese FL This is the 1st century------NO MORE SLAVERY! Patrick McIntosh CA Fra Burkell CA Lori Maas OR Barbara Money RI Frankie DeMarco NY cw curtis CA Erin Kelly OR Thomas Blanton NC Vickie Davis AR Everyone deserves fair wages,fair working conditions for a good days work! Rose Glass NV
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Kindy Kemp WA Elvie Elizer GA I won't buy Driscoll berries until this issue is resolved. caroline cotugno PA Sagar Patel MA John Miller CA Todd Swinton ME Please negotiate with your worker. I buy lots of your great berries and do not want to boycott your company and its fruits. Thank you. Penny Derleth WA Connie Hicks MO Michael Church MA Wanda Hughes KY Angela Gipple IA Alyssa Salitore CA William Roberson NY lynne patton NC Marie Baker WI Shevaun Meggitt WA Duane Hayduk FL Stop Buying Sakuma Brothers BERRIES Until the Negotiate and Sign a Legally Binding Contract to Ensure a Fair Wage and Decent Working Conditions! Marge Mills MI Farm workers are human too. Please treat them as you would want to be treated...fair wages, good working conditions, health and education services for families. irene alexander NY Alan Haggard CA Veronica stein NY KELLY RIDIO CA Laura a IL Daniel LaRubio PA Patricia White MA Wendy Burgess IL Leslie Calambro VA Corinne Pettey CA Barbara Holowczak IL Carolyn Crochet LA Susan Mackey CO Janet Almond WI Nicole Cherok CA Tami Linder NM Pam Lynn NJ Mark Martin CT A G OR Ken Greenwald CA Honest wages for honest work. That's not hard to do. You will still make a good profit from your product. Kathleen Murphy WA Persephone Maywald CA Lauralyn Bunn FL I will no longer buy your berries until I hear you have taken proper action to make sure workers are paid fairly Doores Brock VA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms roy karin CA Jeff McCollim OH Gregory Duncan IN Dawn Mashayekhi IL Dennis Kreiner IL Gavin Casalaina CO Give these human beings fair working conditions. Tina Leme Scott ot Michael Nutini FL Suzie Stoltz CA Kathleen Garcia WI steven morrow WA Marcus Lanskey OR Tara Ofisa OR Bonnie Kenny CO Kathleen McCarty CA Jeff Zabik ME Eddie Hayduk NJ Kelly Squires UT Judith Osterman NY I always buy Driscoll's in preference to other brands, but, no more, until you lend your support to the farm workers. Eva Marks NY Laurel Blomquist WI Kevin Weissman PA Donna Carey PA Hpw disappointing to learn that Driscoll's, one of my favorite and trusted food brands, would turn a blind eye to worker abuse. Hopefully, Driscoll's will do the right thing. I would hate to have to buy others' berries, but I will if necessary and I hope others do the same. Ann Collins MO Michael Lombardi PA The Higgins family FL We are big consumers of berry products, but I will make sure that we buy none ever again from Washington State's Sakuma farms or Driscoll unless and until it is confirmed that Sakuma is willing to negoptiate with the laborers. Esther Etchells ON Everyone needs a fair contract and enough wages to live on. Do the right thing, Driscoll's. James Fancy MI Lee Schmidt OR William Winters CA I buy Driscoll's brand, but I will stop. Kristin Pearson---Franks WA We often buy Driscoll's berries but will now refrain until better working conditions and wages are given the hard working farmworkers! Galen Abbott CA Logan Joseph NY Gayle Sullivan CO Nancy Wottrich PA Anneli Harlem ot Nicole Dausman CA Susan Darna CT Joy Kroeger--- MD Mappes www.fairworldproject.org 147
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Charles Dunlap WY Lynda McMurtrie ON Jennifer Toth CA Mary Hogan OH Sabrina Eckles TX jeffrey pfleger CO David Walker AZ Kate Lange CA I buy Driscoll's organic berries & from today on I promise to boycott any Driscoll's product until this request is completed. Barbara Wojtczak AZ David T. Parchem WI Aren Parisi WA Diane Fails OH K Lucas CA DIANE GREEN GA Kathleen Gibbs MA Reggie Smith GA Arlene Patoray NJ Ruth Kaczmarek TN Oh, so this is why I bought another brand of Organic raspberries today; yours weren't there. Patricia Moffett---Ward IL Esther Klegerman TX Jeremy Hershberger OR Scott Crockett OR Lauree Laurance OR Kathleen View NY p G IL The workers deserve a fair wage. Give it to them! Eileen Shupak PA Hard to find berries that aren't Driscoll but I guess I can do without until Sakuma does the right thing. Jen Bruni CA Ivan Nicoloff ON Laurence Skirvin GA Paige Johnston IL Elizabeth Murphy NM Flavia Valle CA Spencer Walsh WA Leslie Cerier MA S S NM Diane Biniecki NY Pamela Gentry CA Brandy Clary VA S T Cutter WA Patricia Testa NY J C NY Camille Gilbert CA John Schleicher NE Chelsea Dayfield CT Patricia Leverone MA Kathy Motsinger ID
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Marilyn R NV Angela Daidone IL Kirby Fairfax CA Patrice Davis WA I've seen Driscoll's berries in my local Costco. Won't be buying them again until this is settled. No Driscoll's, no Sakuma Brothers. I support our farm workers! Melanie Hart OH walker hibben CA Jonathan Cender HI Ron Berti OR Carol Bostick CA yvonne zarnowski MB Raylene Armour CA Arden Leslie BC V Thomas CO Amanda Wilcox CA Kathleen Fischer CO Sandi Vare CA Barbara Perdelwitz WI evi meuris CO Rob Wolfe AZ doug krause MB Kristyn Holub ON Nicole MacGregor MI C K WI Norm Stanley CA Steve Schildwachter FL Adrian Farnsworth WA Sheila Kojm MA Jose Diaz NY Ayesha Vavrek CA Blythe Clark---McKitrick OR
Marshal McKitrick CA Robyn McChesney NC Be Fair!!! It's the right thing to do!! --- Be careful that you aren't being too greedy and not doing the right thing by your employees/workers! Louis Asher MN Donna Estes IL Everyone deserves fair pay for a good days work! Give these workers decent conditions and fair pay! I buy Driscoll berries a lot, but I will forgo them for frozen if I have to. Do the right thing!! Letitia Noel IL William Hulme MI Louisette Pochat AR If this is not resolved I will NOT buy another strawberry ... I'm going to grow my own. Timothy Baures UT Victoria Miller CA Mary Tucker OH beverly rice NC Jenna Kennett NJ
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Roger Davis CA Marian White CO Jim Wolff VA Driscoll's has a moral responsibility to ensure Sakuma's treats their employees fairly or they should find another source for their berries. L L CT kevin slauson CA Bob Dean BC Sandra Wright ON Dawn Mourey CO Shellee Davis CA D Foster TX Wendy Mueller TX Linda Sullivan CA Eric E. Symborski Jr. NJ Slave wages!!!!! Freda Bentley TX Antonio Saurez OH Jill Bittner CA Ann Sullivan CA Marsha Adams WA C P NJ Lou'a Tuaima CA Kyle Freiler IL Tamara Dreier IL Celia Martin WA J D IL ravi s CA Ellyn Sutton WA Emily Andersen OR James Wutz NY Shryl Kidd Wimpy TX Kelly Fraser OK i buy your berries and feel you can make a difference by not purchasing from Sakuma Brother Farms. Please set an example and vote with your $$$ for fairness! Gretchen Valido OR I have been buying Driscoll berries for years, but will boycott unless these workers are treated fairly. Sissy Kinns NY Jeff Bishop IL melanie fisher CA N Terry CO I do purchase Driscoll's organic berries but may have to reconsider if farm workers are being exploited by your suppliers. Sondra Katz MD James H. Fitch KS Judy Landress TX m j perona CA Charles Wolfe CA Dolores Cohenour CA Jan Friel CA Doug Gibson OR
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Diane Hart CO Up the price of your berries so a worker can make a decent wage and have a better life. Michael Ripperger NM Jan Wilson MD clifford robinson CA Sky Yeager OR Anne W. VA Elvira Pachon CA Mimi Davis TX Ilene Kazak MI Dawn Kosec OH Mark White CT PATRICIA HARMON IL These people give you their blood and sweat with these back breaking jobs. The least you could do is pay them a fair wage for this labor intensive job they do. Ricardo Pacheco OH Hope Kolly RI Celinda Miller OR John Varnedoe GA Wilson Chin WA blake bentley VA Linda Chamberlin NM Looks like I won't be buying Driscoll berries for a while... Jane Alexander IA Nami Nocifera CA Patrica Brooks CA Lois Cheesman CA Please make sure the workers that supply your berries are treated fairly.
Narcissa Enzmann CA charles weber NY D Hart CO Stayton Jones CO Molly Canto CA Don McKelvey OH Jean Lindgren CA Susan Kotowicz WY Germaine Ploos OR dan knockel IA This is a no brainer. Put people first! Patricia Nazzaro KY Peter Karlock CA These people work very hard and deserve fair wages. Bradley Mills CA Kathleen MacDowell TN Sandi Cornez OR Do the right thing for the workers. Harry Michaels, Jr. CO Jeffery Mobley TN Brian and Rita Cohen NV David ba IN Linda Granato PA Debbie Camp TX Alex S. CA
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Angela Moore NC N Pettingill CO carolyn givens CA Stephen Fochs WA Tiya House KY Sumit Shah TX Barbara Davies CA Kenneth Klemp WI Michelle Gale FL I am a customer of yours, and I will stop eating your incomparable strawberries until this is satisfactorily resolved. Tracey Putnam CA Janet H. OR Konstantyn Damas OR Carole Chouinard CA marc silverman CA Janette Perry CO Laurie sudol AZ Lenny Cavallaro MA Margot Pennington AZ Stop buying from Sakuma Brothers unless they negotiate a fair contract with Familias unidas for justice. It is only right to pay fair wages for fair work. Thank you Marleen Gillespie CA Alyssa Solazzo NY Douglas Estes CA Robert Betz IN jeannie carl OH Lana Touchstone CA Lesley Patton HI James Ward NV Jim Nordstrom NJ Pete DeLorenzo NJ Jayne Cutright WV christopher stacy NC C. Gribble WI Sigrid Asmus WA As a Washington State resident, I write to ask Driscoll's to STOP purchasing berries from the Sakuma Brothers company.------not increase your purchases as you have been doing --- until Sakuma negotitaes a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Until this happens, I will not buy any of Driscoll's other products. Workers need fair wages, not contempt for their valuable work. Susan Kopicki CA Brian Cole CA Steve Summers CA The awareness of people is changing rapidly. People are acting on their awareness. Don't suffer both the effects of an economic boycott and social reproval Gregory Neel IN
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Mariclaire Hession VA it's a sorry comment on any business to need a boycott to get them to do the right thing.it's good to know about this; --- I shop my politics and so do my friends and neighbors. They'll be happy to know about this too.
Teresa Arrowood OR I once worked (briefly) for Stemilt out of Wenatchee. It was the hardest, most physically demanding job I'd ever done. And had no benefits other than lots of overtime. But I was treated like dirt by the managers and most employees. Everyone was, it was an extremely unhappy place to spend 14 long hours. --- It's not right that they must work without a contract, these people work hard, I know they do. And they're doing a job that no one else wants. They deserve better. --- Treat your employees the way you'd like to be treated, with respect. And they will respect you in return. Never forget --- people with something to work for, tend to work harder and faster. You should keep that in mind next time your making cuts to pay. Larry Manter IL Another case of anything for a buck. When will these people learn that attitude is neanderthal? Anyway, just another case of someone being wrong ... and refusing to budge simply because they'll make less money (they think) if they can browbeat their employees into working for next to nothing. jacqueline jenkins OR Cindy Frankenberry WA Diana Somps CA STEVE LAHEY TX Michelle Pavcovich WA Bill Greener AZ Dolores Gonzalez CA Sean Dorsey MA Elliot Daniels VA Theresa Thornburg WV David Sherman CA Laura Zanic CA Jeffrey Bradian OH Amanda Esposito NV Peter J. Keiser NY Gary Morse NY Janna Burt CA Rebecca Crowder OR Diana Morgan---Hickey CA
Ryan Bradley MD Gary Purcell MI Margo Margolis WA Laura Lopez FL Heather McLean MO carole jokiel HI Penelope Johnstone CA Lynn Agar WA I am sick of unfair labor wages!!!! fair pay for a fair days work!!!!
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Dionne Brooks WA Dear Driscoll's: I buy your berries all the time, mainly from Costco. I won't be anymore unless Sakuma Bros. negotiates a fair contract with its workers. Thanks for listening. Frances Harriman RI Barbara Bennigson CA Kathleen Watson CA GINO PASTORINO TX Paul Light KS Dylan Jones MI Angelica Mercado IL Driscoll, I will no longer be purchasing your products as long as you continue to be a main buyer of Sakuma. Carol Lapetino IL Casey Smith CA irvey saltz NY Johan Last ot Chad Reddick CT Leah McIntosh TX Lloyd Jordan OH Fudging harvest math was not an elementary mistake. The fudging of the math was done to abuse and cheat workers out of earned: pay, wages, income and benefits. It is intolerable. Christopher Pringer WA Cindy Hatcher TN Heidi Palmer CA Karen Bond AZ Joe Lechuga CA Paul Moss MN Danielle King TX francis mastri CT Cecilia Gaston NY Paul Walton ot Mara Beldavs WI I will not buy Driscoll berries until a fair contract is negotiated. The public will be watching you! Dianne Wright OH Jean Walunis OH Joseph Saccal SC Charles Blanchard MO Nora Tullis GA Maria Griffin WI Dale Adcock MI Lowest price is a race to the bottom. Alessa dra Zuin NY Craig Einfeldt PA Susan Drucker ME Hannah Tideland ot d Laing ME j m' PA robin vogler MT Amber Ray AZ
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Toni Tempel VT Workers are the backbone of every industry; treating them fairly and as Navarro the valued and necessary link they are is what makes a successful business. Sorry Driscoll, but supporting cruddy labor practices like those used by Sakuma Brothers, won't win you loyal customers...just a bad reputation. Eamon Harnois MI David Fleagle MO Lydia DiMarcantonio NJ
Susan Asack NJ Robin Garber OH Jessica Aaron TX tim marshall IL Geraldine Card---Derr CA Michelle Flowers WA Nan Restid PA N. Refes NY Everyone deserves a fair wage in order to maintain the survival of their families. We do not want to purchase berries, or any other foods, from companies that abuse their workers with low wages. Please stop acquiring your berries from Sakuma Brother's farm. Patricia Muth NY John---Mark Pawlowski MN Maricela Garcia IL john bride SC Michelle Storms---Van MI I am a big consumer of Driscoll's berries, but I will change that now. I Howe MD worked in a migrant farmworkers clinic providing medical care in the past, and I saw the harms caused by unsafe farming practices. Treat farmworkers decently and all humanity benefits. Vanessa Palmer FL I hear of this happening in other countries, it's shocking to hear of this happening in the USA. Pretty shameful. William Zitsch WV No more Driscolls for me Ralf Lee NC Irene Tsakiris NJ Jeff Stornelli FL Betty Ann Duggan NJ Jennifer Scott FL Kathleen Holtz MI Roslynn Witte AZ Ivy Schmidt MI Rachel Detoro FL treat the farm workers with respect! TODAY Tom Sloan NY Marcia Halligan WI monica pisciani--- ot maggetti mercy myers MN Kallyn Krash NY Rachael Rhein CO Everyone deserve to be treated fairly.
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David Weible IL I can stop eating berries because of this injustice. Corporate bullying and abuse are unAmerican. I will pay attention to whether Driscoll's uses its buying power to win justice for workers, and will not buy Driscoll until I know. Lorraine Jericevic ot Leslie DiLorenzo NC Jory Froggatt NC Matthew Farraher MA Astrid Connolly PA will vida CO Joel Gagnon NY marilyn dailey OH Anna Boesch OR Carleen Daly MA Judy Krach IL Marie Nickell MN Letitia Dace FL Darnise Healy NC These practices must STOP. As much as I love your berries I will stop purchasing them, in the absence of news of an equitable deal between the workers and Sakuma Brothers. I participate in a multi---Family food purchasing arrangement. So this issue will be watched and acted on by our group. Please do what you can to exert influence over your supplier. --- We will be watching and will act (not buy) accordingly. John Gilbert WI We purchase Driscoll's Strawberry's often. However, good labor practices are something we stand for here in Wisconsin. I will seek other sources if this cannot be resolved. David Traugot MA I will boycott your products and encourage my friends to do the same until you stop sourcing from Sakuma Brothers. K. Braun WV Terra Oegema MI Shauna Riviere AB James Poe NC Tim Sunlake IN Chris O. PA Karly Landovskis NS Chad Stemm WA Vikas Haridas Mudavakkat TX Taryn Prevette WA M Hutchison TX Larry Burdette GA We will not eat any berries until we hear of a favorable outcome to this. Donna Kelley GA Katharine Roberts CA I will no longer buy Driscoll berries until I hear this is resolved. And I usually buy a LOT of berries. No more Sakuma Brothers. Pay a living wage! Daphne Randall BC Bryce Hleucka AB I am not so sure the farm is the issue. This leads me to further question Driscoll's business practices and their products will not longer be in our shopping cart.
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Virginia Johnston NH doug franklin NC Michelle Shelor TX Becky Troyer IN Rebecca Mathis NJ T. Strealy---Colom VA Jeanine V PA Diana Watters CT Jennifer Layton WV Renee Harger OR H Sherer OH Don Anderson OR I marched with Cesar Chavez after returning from Vietnam for this very purpose. Looks like we need to take to the streets again. Paola Collazo FL Tom Emdy CA SYLVIA RANJEL TX Sean McFeeley NJ Rashida Paul NY JOHN KEEVERT NY Your support of Sakuma Bros threatens your entire US market. Roberta Bushman NM Ronald Serviss AZ Do the right thing. Donna Holland CT Margaret Wetter WA Dianne Beaulieu QC joyce kegles MA Michelle Lorza WA Lauren Savadove CA Ellen McCormick CT Joan Huyser---Honig MI I regularly buy Driscoll's berries, but now I'm wondering whether I should switch brands until you stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers. ted dinton CO Denise Lytle NJ Peter Kardas WA Sandy Carroll OR Obiora Embry KY Carrie French NY Jeff Baures TX Kathi Heern MO Gail Harty MN N Johnson MN M Ross CA Lisa Cohen NY George Hall TX Leslie Drimel MN Gene and Dori Peters SD Sarah Rice CA Imagine how bad the situation must be for the workers to risk their livelihoods and losing the small income they receive. They deserve fair wages and consumers should join boycott Driscoll's for not supporting fair wages!
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Bev Huntsberger CA Mark Damon HI ALBERT CAMPOS TX Maggie Hanson WA Emma Lorge WI Cheryl Croteau ON Winston Sims NH Valerie Ralston CA Jessica Howard NY Christina Gallup WI Jeannette Bartelt MD If need be I will not purchase berries until the workers get Fair Wages and Conditions! Ed Elliott CA Cindy Whitehawk HI Pedrito Alfaro WA Suda Jones MI Robin Hersh NE Vikram Sikand NJ Mary Beth Versgrove IA devika eswaran OH Barbara Swartz MD Maria Garrigan ON bill karras TX treat the workers respectfully Michael Eufemia MA Leslie Silton CA The workers need backup in getting a fair contract. It's disheartening to me that in these modern times there are such blind, selfish and stupid companies --- and more, that these companies think that the American consumer doesn't care. Well, Caesar Chavez has an important street in Los Angeles named after him now ... so think twice. We do care. e kar NJ k ryder MA Jennifer Barbee MD Thank you so much for wanting to do the right thing for so many people. My family,friends,and community look forward to hearing from you and to see the action you decide to take. Hopefully it will be soon as we will all miss your berries until then!! S Russell MD We value good quality food and by extension we should value the people who are an important part of producing that food. Without them, it would rot in the fields. Pay a living wage. Lynne Teplin NY Nancy Herlinger TX suzanne muzechuk CT why in the name of common sense can't these people be treated fairly?????I don't buy Driscoll products. They are expensive. that tells me that you can afford to treat these workers better than your suppliers do . so open up your powerful mouths and demand humane treatment or stop buying from them. How smart is that???!!! Lisa Murray PA Lynn Kelly NY Vera Shaver NY Miguelina Rodriguez NY
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Constance Mancuso MA Kathleen Seeley CA John Provost MA The Bible says a worker is entitled to his meat. Don't make your customers parties to your miserly & unfair treatment. Everyone deserves fair wages for a hard day's work. Beverly Jahn CO Bruce Turnbull NC Daniel Nilsson AB Heidi Wacker NM Hue Beattie WA Yvonne Zaganelli--- NV Brown Steven Vandenberg OH I usually buy Driscoll berries here in Columbus, OH. I do have a choice in what I buy. Please do not buy berries from Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate with FUJ union. Joyce Dixon TX Sakuma Brothers, you should be ashamed. Francesca Blom---Cooper OR Please let Sakuna Bros. know that we will stop buying Driscoll's berries until we know fair wages have been agreed upon. Joanne Erskine AK Kendra Phipps OH Alida Franco CO Mary Johannsen MN Eileen McCorry NY Teresa Iovino TN Mary Scott MN I have been a very frequent buyer of your berries. Now that I know what's going on, I will boycott your berries until Sakuma Brother's negotiates a fair contract and provides fair pay to it's workers. If they don't, you must stop buying from Sakuma Brothers. Elijah Wade MO Wendy Clifton CA Elissa Gordon NJ MARY WEBER WI Deb Padilla MN Maria Rainho MA Carolyn Velez MA Paul Sanchez CA Daniela hermida FL vanessa valencia GA alana schwartz NY The workers that produce most of your fruit deserve fair wages! I buy your berries and now find them hard to swallow knowing how the farm workers are treated. carol rigrod CA Pasquale Carbone WA pam harbour OH Cheryl Grey KS Margaret Gallagher MD dinmani savla CA Please support the fight against unethical labor practices of Sakuma Brothers. Josie Satsuma CO www.fairworldproject.org 159
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MaryLynn Michaelis OH Sally Phelps NM I will not buy Driscoll berries until I am notified that they have negotiated a fair contract with Families Unida por la Justicia. Elissa Donlan MA Stop "this injustice and insanity!" Betty Scott OK Douglas Kennedy Esq. DC Sheila Malesko MI Emma Uk NJ wendy wamser MI Joyce Larsen CA Celia Mayo CA Thomas Cope OH Janice Haynes OR I always purchase your organic berries. Please help these workers S Kass NY Mike McVearry MD Susan Mayer CA C. Wilcox IL Jill Bohr Jacob AK Roberta Richardson CO Not gonna eat your berries til ya get yer act together. Janet Jacobs CT Molly Huff CO MIke b NH michael raffaeli AK Cherry Bachmeier OR Daniel Tourigny BC please, be ethical Linda Gazzola NY Geraldine Meyer IL Ardine Biggs IL charlie johnson CA Hope Newman MN April Theod OR Jane Zeimantz CA Do the right thing. Andrea Pennisi NY Susan Kuhn OR Mary Regan TX Janet Tirabosci SC sheila isenagle OR Robert Racine AZ Barbara Baur MD Jeanette Louis IL Genevieve Riber CA Barbara Landi CA Linda Mooney AZ Allan Campbell CA Mark Harris PA Maureen noble CA Mark Levengood WA Jennifer Stamm WA
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Rachel Young CA Sharon Anderson VT Wenona Scott VA Timothy Evans NY J.C. Rotunda VA Jillian Forschner MA Nicole Rushford CA christoph Ruegg CA Kindler Stout OR K. D. NC Nancy Spinella CA I am a regular customer of Driscoll's berries. Please honor your pledge to support for fair labor practices and demand the same from your suppliers. Christine Matthews DC Paying fair wages and honoring basic human rights is not only the ethical thing to do but is also smart business. Stop buying from Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate a fair contract. Annie Carbonneau QC Please learn to pay these workers a fair wage. After all, without them, you are nothing. Dan Brennan NJ James Sengheiser MO Iris Wullink ot Jackie Adam MB Jenine Moscove CT Laurie Chagnon WI Daniel Gwinn MO Susan Gage PA I buy your berries regularly, but the fair treatment of workers on Sakuma Brothers berry farm is more important than my berry purchase. Please boycott Sakuma berries or I will boycott Driscoll! Kara Cox MS Dan Leggett MD Angela Swift FL Thomas French NM Fair and stable wages creates a stable workforce and more stable prices for consumers. Nancy Mead CA Norman Rolfe NY Donald Gilreath FL Michael Hill WA do the right thing by your workers Lilly Stevens TX Fair wages, decent conditions. Driscoll's strawberries are commonly found here in Houston at Kroger but there's other choices. So until you can muster some fairness and decency, Ill be purchasing strawberries from other sources. Thanks. carol keck AZ Paul Rizzo VA Priscilla Nelson CO Cindy Black PA ted chrzan MI I buy these berries at Kroger but will not in the future because of slave labor Wendy Oakley MI
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Carol Taylor FL Steven Pautz AE Walter Schlosser CA Alan Jasper NY Phyllis St George MA I eat your blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries all the time here in New England. But I don't want to eat berries from slave labor. Gail Van Haren WI Jennifer Newton NC Shannon Krushel BC I love to purchase Driscoll's berries. They allow me to enjoy berries at times of the year when they aren't in season locally. I appreciate the quality. I will not purchase them again until the issue with Sakuma Brothers is resolved --- I favor Fair Trade products as well, and maybe we need a certification for products grown in North America!! Maxine Coyle MA Kaydi Farrar IL annick baud NY Stephen Cardwell ot Deborah Brady OR Frances Hinckley CA Act human: keep your promises and treat other people with respect AND demand that those you buy from --- namely Sakuma's --- do the same. I, for one, am boycotting Driscoll's, in support of Sakuma's workers. If you know they need to improve and buy from them anyway, you are condoning and abetting their behavior. Diane Mongno AR Sandra Clark MA I have been boycotting Gillette since the 1980's, and will boycott Driscoll as long as necessary. dawna towne ID Donald Mackay CA George Bason MD jo smith VT Linda Bescript AZ I've enjoyed your berries, but hearing this is troublesome. Melanie Eppens AZ Stacy Maher CA Connie Meadows OR Richard Van Aken PA Justice is what the workers deserve. Melisse Gamache OR Carol Good---Elliott IN Chris Watson TN Karen Tuveson NJ I've been buying your organic berries for years --- this is very troublesome. sandra lane TX carrie mullen NY Joyce A Kovelman, CA Start by being fair and negotiate a fir contract with your employees. Ph.D. Heriberto Rodriguez NY debby camille CA Janyce Johnson CA dan harris CA Royce Brenner PA www.fairworldproject.org 164
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Roberta Camp PA Nathan Hartman WA Susan Garcia CA Sanford & Laura Clarke NM We were very upset about your lack of compassion toward labor struggles since we buy your berries very often. Workers need fair wages to survive. Please help!!! Paul Mushrush MI Nicole Denison WI Brenda Kennard CA AMY CUSICK MN joe farrell OH Kathy Priola NM Cami Kassing WA Jenny Doughty CA h masih NY Jia Hui Lee CA Helene Becker VA Ken Gilmour ON Jill English CO Mark West OR Dianne Knoben MN GENA HESTER CA Phoebe Griffith CT Johnna Edmunds CA Cecilia Kiyanitza FL Edith Griffin MA I have frequently purchased Driscoll's berries in the past. I will no longer do so until this situation is remedied. Barbara Rippey OR Barbara Schmidt---Bailey IL
Anthony Kessler CA Wynne Corson IL Naomi Saunders CA Natalie Kalustian CA Catherine Kleinsmith CO I do buy Driscoll fruit. Hope I don't have to stop buying it. Scott Cady MN Anthony Capobianco PA Sheila Quenneville VT Everyone deserves a live able wage! We must have sustainable agriculture and economy for everyone. Rosalea Hostetler KS Lois Zeidman AZ Mary Cuchna OH Suz S. CO Salvatore Privitera NY I'm going to stop buying "Driscoll" berries until they stop purchasing from "Sakuma Brothers". Karen Olds FL Warren Foster CA Donna Hart TX Beatrice Simmonds NY www.fairworldproject.org 165
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Diane Roller OH Catherine OBrien CA Ruth Ann Barrett OR Supply chain issues involving mistreatment of labor tarnish your image and compromise your state principles and can lead to bigger PR problems as evidenced in the clothing and jewelry sectors to name just two. ------According to a Deloitte study, the vast majority of younger workers believe today's companies aren't placing enough focus on what can be done to help others and I'm sure a brand like Driscoll's wants a clear record on sustainability as reflected in not only environmental, but social and economic justice to attract employees and customers. Saul Arbess WA Paul Hogan MA Edie Ehlert WI Part of good food means a good living for those who do the work. Karen Loudon CA Delia Zapata CA Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with the families Unidas Por l Justicia. It is only Human. Alison Keehn NY I will no longer buy Driscoll berries because of this. Plus, I want a NJ company to grow berries in NJ, not Washington State. Period. Rachel Parnell NC Carey HAUSER CA Sabine Rocholl NY Carol Matshall OR Theresa Mccall CA Julie Nelson FL Teresa McBride CA Elizabeth Champagne VT Advance workplace justice! We don't want to eat berries while those who harvest them are cheated and their rights are denied!! --- Boycott Sakuma Brothers until workers have a good contract that pays fairly, provides basic rights and eliminates abuse, and respects the right of field workers to organize to protect their rights! Jan Krygowski FL C Conifer OR I and my family buy many Driscoll berry products but don't want to support this exploitation of workers. Please tell Sakuma they must negotiate and uphold agreements with their employees. Donna Young CT Jeanne Mackay MI Joy Oosten--- MA Hocking AnneMarie Marchello WI I refuse to purchase fruit from companies that do not pay a far wage and that do not respect their workers. Georgie Halpin WI Please think about what you are doing and for the peoples sake stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers Austin Ahola WI Andrew Rose NC E Pelz CT timothy stein CO Kathy Lynn Johnson FL Fair wages, benefits and working conditions NOW!
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Peter Robinson AZ In the past I have purchaed Driscoll berries at Costco and Fry's food stores. I will make a specific point to no longer buy any Driscoll berries and to tell the produce manager my opinion on this subject. Jackie Duba CO Allen Swift CA Shauna Haines CA Gloria Jarrell CA I like strawberries, but I can pass them up if I have to. Gerald Shaia CA Margaret Dyson---Cobb VA laurie clark CO Radha Vignola CA I PITY THE STRUGGLING WORKERS, WHO ARE SO DESPERATE FOR A FAIR CONTRACT. Jeralyn Mohr MN This is USERY, it needs to stop! Philip Koster FL Olga Petrou NY Marjorie Crockett MA Michael Guttman NM Kelli O'Neill GA JoAnn Gronbach CA I often buy Driscoll strawberries. Until Driscolls puts pressure on Sakuma Bros. t opay their workers a living wage and improve their working conditions, I'll not buy your strawberries in the future. Elsie Trawick GA Erika Osorio CA Victoria Worlidge ON carolyn flook CA Robert Perry TX lisa mcdonough CO it's a no---brainer, a living wage for a job needing to be done. Jeri Idso CA Kelley Wiley NC They are human beings, not animals. Pay them a fair, liveable wage! Jim Robson NY Carrie Cook IA Leslie Medina CT Rachelle Kelley KS Nancy Massar NY I purchase lots of Driscoll products, but I Will boycott them until I know they source their products with more ethical considerations. Janet Westlake NE I use a lot of berries and often they are Driscoll's. I will no longer buy your brand until you pay your worker's fairly. Teri Gunst SD Deanie Allen TX nick marling CA Aubrey Schwartz MD Valerie Berg PA Linda Ross VA Styron West MS Melissé Segesman CO Sandra Sullivan CA Lisa Andrade CA Patricia Hood CA Marcia Klugman NY
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David Busha CT No more Driscoll's for me unless fair wages are paid timothy peachee MO Karen Umbrello MA Brian Reid WA Maureen T Doran MA Greed is never justified Scott Fadanelli IL No more Driscoll's for me until Sakuma treats their employees fairly or Driscoll's sources from a company that does. Kathy Kristofice MI Will be stopping buying berries from Driscoll if I have to . Will pick my own and freeze a years supply . Anne Knoll TN Time to support the workers of Sakuma Bros. They are part of our community! Elizabeth Moore FL Lisa Witte MO Robert Yantzer AZ Robert Basker CO Lynn Worther ON Susan Wright OH Julia Joseph NY JILL MCFALL CA We don't want cheaper food at the expense of other people working for less. Sara Stopek NY Glenn Eklund WA Susan Heckler NY Heidi Collins CA volkan morkoc CA I am supporting their rights. Karen Mitchell WA Anna Putman OR Farmworkers have the right to be financially compensated for their time in wages suitable to care for a family! They preform backbreaking work, often are exposed to toxic agricultural chemicals, and long hours. ------Equality and justice for ALL! Pamela Lucas OR margaret hurley NY Patty Lange VT feliz nunez CA Judy Fisher CO Emily Schoenbeck ot Dan Vander Ploeg IL Dr. Kermit Welch TX Ligia Henriquez NY Driscoll's I buy lots of your "organic" berries, on avg once a week at Whole Foods. Because during winter many times there are no berry alternatives to your brand at WF. However, the use of plastic from your containers is already troubling me and now this. I can simply stop buying your berries and consume other produce with better labor/environmental standards if you don't make sure that your products offer these and not just an "organic" label. Elizabeth Fattah CA Joan Breit KS M SCHAR OR Joseph Cortinez TX
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Peter Boggess AK Suki Winship CA Joseph Coco IL MONTE ROY LA David Nix VA Please allow me to continue buying your delicious berries, knowing you respect the rights of the workers who produce your product! Thank You =) Paul Miller SD JoLynn Jarboe CO Glenda Smith AB I will no longer be buying your berries. Diane Kent AZ Dan Kegebein WA Jan Volz---Kelly CA Wim de Vries ON Pamela Paul NC Jonathan Doose NC Steve Wise GA B Hawkins MN Rick Butzberger WA I just saw some Driscoll berries in Costco yesterday, but decided not them because of this issue. I won't buy from someone who refuses to treat their workers fairly. Karen Hakun PA Cynthia Sherman---Jones MI
George Walberg WV Alexander Honigsblum IA Jane Greene FL David Berkshire TX Deborah Hemphill OH Bill Schwarz NY Kevin Davis OH Patt Keane MN Helen Russo CO Norrie Zaret NJ Denise Ketterer TN Kelly Tuttle CA Diane Beckett ON Meghan DeZinno MA Robert Brickler IN Marilyne Phelps NE Ann Kelly NJ Joanne Devereaux NJ Jon Hager UT Rick Macias CA anette stauske MD Honor labor and improve working conditions Teresa Brockman IL Sakuma should treat it's workers humanely! Driscoll, you need to boycott Sakuma. Franco Ortega OR karin peperstraete ot
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Doris Griffin MI Thomas Tong CA Stop the exploiting, raise prices if needed. Sandra Theodore AZ Diana Spencer FL Donald Walsh VA no Driscoll berries until stop JOANN SCHROPP MD Nhelson Jaramillo NY Laura Matturro NY Deborah Williams CO Francyne Willby GA Sharon Gillespie TX Mary Hostak NJ Tim Martz IL Erdag Ahmet Yilmaz ot Even here in Germany, we know what happens there and it is against humanity what happens there. If you are for human rights, than you are for this petition. Dave Frank IA Darwin Borthwick CA Common Sakuma Brothers these are people not machines. They have to live. Where is your humanity? Don't be a slave master. Mary Lobalsamo NY Beth Rudolf CA Lara Michele AZ Linda Hendrix OR Edgar R. Polanco MA Vincent Dunlap CA Carl Bowgren IL Renee Jacobs AZ Tina Said CA annee hall CA Danny Watson CO erin moore GA Gertrude Crowley MA JC Corcoran NM Go Vegan! Debora Parker WV Janet Gasbarro NJ janice murayama CA Jose Avetikyan ot Jane Silverman NC Laurel D PA Charles Richards AZ Renee Blostein TX Lisa Butterfield CA JOCELYNE GAMACHE QC Joe Gady IN Scott P Mast CO Catherine Beyer CO I only buy organic berries but that is not this issue. Pay these workers a living wage! Thomas Gourley CA Nancy Linder FL
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Kieran Smith BC Robert Aronson CA Martha Loving VT Gregg Gunther FL Denise Tugadi TN Jeffrey Belt WA Brad Knopf MD Christine Meyers OR Sumitra Joy CA Maria Stoll FL Holly Bucalos NY thomas clark CO Without their labor, we don't eat! Give them fair pay and honor their rights! Thanks! marla sukoff NY Kim Wenk VA Veronique Bucherre--- CA Frazier clinton kraft CA Alison Good CA Aubrey Haskill MI I purchase Driscoll organic berries regularly when they are available at Meijer in Gaylord, MI. Please consider hearing my voice on this important labor protection issue. J Gafur FL I will stop buying Driscoll's products from my local market Publix, until the workers receive a fair contract. Jitka Mencik AZ Greg Baskin MN Maritta Lee VA Gregory Ptucha CA Do the right thing, Driscoll, or my consumer dollars will go elsewhere. Rebecca Hetrick ID I will stop buying Driscoll's products from my local market, until the workers receive a fair contract. And I will spread the word to friends and family! Janis Todd NJ Rosetta Sanz NM please Cynthia Spencer NY Susan Sher CA I frequently purchase Driscoll's berries but will not do so again until I hear that Sakuma's workers are treated fairly. Jeanne Brooks ME Driscoll Company: Please stop being a customer of Sakuma Brothers until the latter supports its workers with decent working conditions. Thank you. There *are* limits to exploitation of labor! Thank you. Will Walton FL please for Sakuma brothers to negotiate a fair honest long term labor deal; until then I won't be buying your products Catherine Wahrenbrock NV Ian Allen AL Susan Snover WA Washington farmer and all farmers should treat the workers fairly. ------No more berry purchases until this happerns. Regina Flores CA April Dorey ot Julie Parcells MD Rose Hall AZ HONOR LABOR www.fairworldproject.org 171
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Caroline Battersby NH Joyce Bryan AZ K Devi WA Lydia Villescas CA Until Sakuma Brothers negotiates a legally binding contract with it workers I will boycott all Driscoll products and encourage others to do the same. Sakuma workers have the right to a fair wage and decent working conditions! It is time for Driscoll to stand up for the workers rights by putting pressure on Sakuma to treat their workers with respect!
Charles Myers MD Doris Wilson SC Tom Williams MO Sakuma Brothers must negotiate. Doug Rudholm CA Linda Brown FL Rod Irwin WA Judy Scriptunas PA Rena Lewis CA Carol Johnson IL Sidney Cholmar NY Monica McKey CA I buy Driscoll blueberries every week, but I will stop doing so until you pressure Sakuma Brothers to negotiate a fair contract with their workers. Christine Tendle MN Sarah Zimmerman CA Rosanna Butta NY Larry Blood CA Josh Biermann MO Natasha Pierce WI We buy berries weekly throughout the year, and often from Driscoll. We will stop buying Driscoll products until hearing that this labor issue has been resolved, it's that important to us. maria soares ot anthony montapert CA Elizabeth Voorhies FL Jan and Larry Slobin OR Timothy Downey IL Please do the right thing? Floyd O'Brien CA Paulette Smith VA Susan Barrons IL Tiffany Vair KY Mark Holoubek WI Linda Rivera FL Jon Phipps UT Bob Bailey OR Amy Lester PA Miriam Hillson CO Carla Pflasterer VA Marlo Gilbert FL Michael O'Neill WA Michael Van Riper NY
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Paula Zerzan CA Barbara Lamb CA Bonnie Pilcher ID Anneliese Schultz ME Shawnna Morrow OR sue lexier ME People deserve a living wage and decent woking conditions. Please do not buy berries from growers who do not follow these human rules. Clay Hawker KS Amitav Dash ON Joyce Lobato NM Rachel Pinto CA Duane Sebesta FL Deirdre fritts IL Mary Wellington AZ Diana Diekmann CA No more Sakuma Brothers!!!! Chris Kamlet NY Robert Beyer CO Arnold Welber FL No mas Driscoll berries until Sakuma Brother's negotiate fair contract Laurie Macrae ID Adarsh Ayyar AZ Maureen Peterson IL Eric Lemieux QC Katherine Kautz CO Cynthia Bower AZ I am deeply concerned about unfair labor practices in the U.S. agriculture and food industries. I also purchase tons of Driscoll berries (particularly your organic varieties) every year. Please stop sourcing berries from Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. I will boycott Driscoll products unless and until this occurs, and will urge my friends and family to do likewise. Timothy DeWitt WA Leona Bochantin MO Bill Brady IL S Feiven---Alleston CA
Rodney Lynch TN Lauren Swaim AR Mickele Thompson CO Driscoll berries are a staple. But not when I hear that you are supporting farms that provide for their workers so poorly that they are calling for a boycott of their own product. Sakuma Brothers need to be held accountable. Please do the right thing, and help these workers with your buying power. Thank you. Reeta Roo CA Wanda Berry IL Bonnie Poloner NM Please stop being a part of what's wrong..and stand up for what's right Marge Price---LaFace CA Laura Avant CO I won't be buying any of your berries until I hear that you will not get any more from Sakuma Brothers. Tanya Janish MD Stefani Puckett IN
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Barbara Lyon CA Kenneth Clark TN Margaret Hannan WA Rob Latousek WI Deborah Jeppson ID Stephanie Stubbs CA angelica wright IL Play fair….. --- Honest wages, honest work. Joanna Kennedy IL June Talley NJ I grew up in NJ so when I find Driscoll berries they are my first choice. However*after reading that this petition I will boycott Driscoll's until this unfair labor problem is solved. Carola Detrick CA Bryan Lukashevsky HI Grace Kelly VA I frequently purchase Driscoll Strawberries, but I will not do so in the future unless I hear that you have negotiated a fair contract. DOMINIQUE HOWARD AZ linda williams NJ Robin Miller WA Anthony Straka NY Ellen Kimball NV Elsy Shallman FL Luise Lichtenberg ME Mariah Rivera FL Susan Shaw IN Cheryl Forse MN I love your product, and always support companies that support fair labor practices. Please be one of those companies. Kim Murphey CA Sean Desmond MA Elena G NC Norma Stehle NJ Tatiana Torres CA Dawn Standley CA Sasha Delgado NY Aeyrie Silver Eagle CA Do you know how hard berry pickers work? If you did you would support their campaign for a fair contract. I'm not supporting your company with my purchasing power until you do. Dorothy Brazis FL Alison Roxby WA kristin love WA Elizabeth Schwartz NY Patricia Trout MO This is America --- treat people fairly. --- Fair wages and working conditions. --- How are you being treated? Sarah Cole CO Kyle Schmierer AZ Amy Cordero UT
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms ying cw ot I am not American, but I am support. paula pruner CA Beverly Bradshaw VA edith messer NJ Rochelle Briscoe CO daniel morneau FL Cathrine Estar AZ Wendy McGowan OR Amy Priest WA Sarah Mullins FL Rita Jackson PE I love Driscoll Berries! But I will vote with my dollars and not buy them until workers are treated fairly and paid a livable income. Ron McGill CA Jenny Jones SC Arden Andersen KS Before we go off boycotting we first need to know the facts of the case like what is the current wage and benefits package, hours worked, etc. Then we need to know what other similar farm workers wages are in this region. If Sakuma is in fact unfair, by all means boycott, but if they are being targeted like the petroleum industry in Houston where the union is striking because they want a 90/10 insurance package rather than the 80/20 they and most Americans already have then there won't be a boycott. David Miller NJ Carolyn Rodriguez CA Suzette Perles LA Sarah DiMeglio MA Dale Patterson MI Sheila Stone CO john landoll FL Debbie Martin TX randall haile IN Virginia Erickson NY All people deserve a livingwage ! shelby swayze NJ Rachael Neffshade PA Richard Burris MI Sandra Fortin CA John Albertini ME Judy Miu CA I live in San Francisco and purchase a lot of your berries but will stop doing so until you stop purchasing your berries from the Sakuma Brothers or pressure them to treat their workers fairly! Laura Read TN Kay Lowe CO David Starr HI Steven Gress IL Nancy Kuster NJ Liam Canavan ot Pilar Zorrilla CA Sue Ellen Camden---Lee NC pay a living wage, everyone deserves a living wage. misty mills TX
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Soren Pearson IA Timothy Reid GA Sara Kostek MA John Palmer BC We are regular customers,but want our fruit sourced from reputable farms. Todd Caine PA Nicole Crane VA Cheyenne Harris CA Eileen Smith IN please stock purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Nguyen Hall NY Phil Stott ON I buy a lot of your berries, which I greatly enjoy, but it would be better if I knew that the workers who picked them were treated fairly and paid a good wage, even if I had to pay a bit more. Gayle Janzen WA Very frustrated to hear that Driscoll's is doing business with Sakuma Brothers who treat their employees horribly. I generally buy a lot of Driscoll berries, but will no longer as long as you continue to purchase from them. Their workers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and paid a living wage. Karen Aicher CT Leanne Burns CA Mitsy Monroy---Flores WI
Laurie Higgins PA I buy Driscoll's all the time. If this abuse doesn't stop, I will stop buying Driscoll's. Barbara Bell AB Sandra Heisey PA Barbara Lafaver CA ALL WORKERS DESERVE A LIVING WAGE AND DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS. John Neumeister NY Christina Bueno IL Marie Walsh MA Michael Sponza QC Trula Barton CO nancy ernst richards ON Tom Halloran ot David Nemes WA Marie Snavely PA Krista Bentow WA Kathryn Lippert IL Christine Spaeth CO Jerry Porter IL Tomara Fleury IN I normally buy your organic berries on a weekly basis, but I will switch to another supplier until you start treating your labor better, paying them a fair wage, and giving them fair and safe working conditions. Linda Campbell ON I buy Driscoll's berries and I believed they were fair. I will no longer buy until has been resolved to the workers satisfaction. Stacy gannon FL I buy Driscoll berries all the time and will discountinue use until a fair labor conditions contract is negotiated.
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Violina Nater MA Rebecca chrusniak WI chase gallagher MA I buy a lot of berries with the Driscoll label. I am shocked to hear that one of their suppliers is not a fair employer to its workers. Driscoll's should stop buying from Sakuma until they evaluate and change their labor policies. Rana Schindler CA Victoria Scamehorn AZ Paula wiseman MA Heather Shryock OK Ralph Gazda FL Camille Williams NJ Jane Evans NC Sharon Wood CO I am not going to buy Driscoll's anymore until you tell Sakuma Brothers to give their worker better wages and living conditions. Olga Lenchenkova CA Richard DePrizio NJ Taza Guthrie AZ Debra Banner NV Teresa Tonnemaker WA shelly hall OH Joellen Coco AZ Judie Luisi NY Steven Westerman NY Sheila Smith CA Driscoll's can be proud of the great job it does delivering great berries to the public. It could be prouder if it only purchased from growers who care about the health of their employees and the environment. I love Driscoll's berries, and I would love to know that workers weren't suffering without fair pay and decent working conditions. Jamie Leal OK Fair humane ethical treatment of your workers! $15 an hour? Bonnie Olsson PA Kimberly Frey DE D'Arcy Goodrich NE Tony Villarreal TX Boycotting here in Texas. Carol Driscoll WI Since I am a Driscoll I want to be sure that my distant relatives do the right thing. Everyone deserves a good life, living wages and a place to live. Please consider changing your practices and dealing with Sakuma Brothers. Judy Davis CO Gloria sall CA Abby Dahlquist MN Sara Fisch AZ Rachel Yance ON Heather Hall WA Tim Glover FL Susanne Groenendaal PA Donna Berry MI Sandy Cornell UT Sheryl Marquez TX
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Wally Wegner MN Ruth Bright CA Michael Mack NY Why would you STEAL a workers labor or help another to steal? jennifer greer FL Joseph Magid PA monique pensis CT Eric brink CA Paula Cash AL TeriLyn Brown WA Ashley Patton GA Morgan Bean KS Pathos is one of the many reasons big business get bigger .we need to let them know terrie charlton WV please driscoll boycott sakuma brothers. Marie Ledwith AZ Mary Dunn ME Amber Wagner MO E Perrone NY Rosalinda Scott IL Jean Dieter NV Nenah Sylver AZ Joseph Young MA Araelia Murphy ON Eva Toutain FL Vicki Carlson MD Calle Ries AZ Rachel Resnikoff CA I want clean, safe, ORGANIC food grown by healthy happy farm workers paid a living wage. Laura Ganda OR Alan Weir ON diane adams TX Karl Lohrmann IN I buy your berries all the time. In the future I will check the label to determine where the berries came from in your packages. If you don't tell where they came from, I won't buy them If your lable say they're from Sakuma Brothers, I won't buy them. Karl Lohrmann Laurie Tomme PA Patt Roche WA Lisa Jack CA Justin tanguay ON Kristy Cardoza MA Lindsey Jolly OR Boycott Sakuma Brother's until the contract is offering adequate compensation and bargaining power to the Farm Labor Workers, or I will boycott DRISCOLL'S. In fact, I am now going to Boycott your product. Pfffftt!!!!! Barbara Collins FL carmen Valencia CT Andree Shidlovsky OR These are the people willing to do what white America will not. Why not pay them their due? They work hard! kate corcoran MO cynthia kinzel---brown NC BE FAIR!!!!! --- BE KIND!!!!!
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Patricia Panitz WA I won't buy Driscoll's until the workers are treated decently. Why are so many employers such bastards? Fresia Guerra FL Angie Harguess OH Gretchen Klein NC No more Driscoll fruit for our house. Darn Albert Zook CO Alysa Drummond VA Connie Sullivan NH Andres Aguirre MA dana orlich NE Jen Robinson MT We haven't shopped at Walmart in years for this very reason. PLEASE boycott anyone who treats employees unfairly. Sharon Wendt UT Jacquelyn Bass KY Linda Tabb CA STOP Purchasing from Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate a fair contract Familias Unida por la Justicia!!!!!!!!!!! William Leavenworth ME baily Clevenger IA Those workers deserve respect! Candace Nagle CA Lisa Iannucci NJ Toma Davis CA Organic, GMO free and no bYneonicotinoids too! Save the bees! Lizette Anderson CO Fair pay & rights for our farm workers!!! --- No more Driscoll products in this household until a fair contract is negotiated & put in place. Paula Rochelle CA weldon fitzgerald MI Heberto Hernandez FL i buy a lot of these products, please treat with respect these workers Karen Joslin FL susan salter IN Renee Brown CO Mary Russell MI Lisa Kuzviwanza NJ Ronald Ratner SD Allison Higgins NJ Anasa lewis MO Lee Hayward CO Laura Lopez IN Arleen Hanks ot Kimberley Burg NY Love your berries, but not at the expense of human lives. Jessica Reese CA Kathleen Noonan CO Kellie Krasovec CO Mary Garcia OR Bonnie Hough AK Mary Ann Gerry WI Rosemarie Florizone BC Carletta Brown SC Cindy Eby MI Paula Meyer CA Heather Guilin AZ www.fairworldproject.org 180
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Ken Farley FL Jessica Blum MN Paying people fairly is sustainable. Robyn Gottlieb OR Monique Davila TX I can't believe this happening again, let's help the workers who bring food to the table. John Converset NJ Those who cultivate and pack our food deserve a living wage. Lisa setian FL Do the right thing Michael Jenesse MO Alice Bartholomew NY Kate Anderson, PhD ID
Andrea Jefferson MD E Redmond PA Erika Flores CA Be fair, pay fair wages. Carol Olson CA I buy your organic berries every week. Do I need to stop? I hope not. Michele Spector NJ Jessica Bonaparte NY Stephen Brockmann IN Steven Fenster NJ I regularly buy Driscoll's strawberries at Whole Foods, but will be joining in the boycott. Merri Isom TX Eileen Moyer---Mertz AZ labor deserves a fair wage Florence Kelly CA Jonathan Weiner CA Julie Behmer NJ jan keith TX Chris Simpson IL I just bought Dricoll stawberries yesterday. I will no longer buy them until i hear that Driscoll follows therough on this. --- I am spreading this word to all my friends as well. Cynthia Q MN Sandra Rosania IA Karen Campbell FL Hilary Quinn NE Stephanie whitmore MI I buy at least 3lbs of your organic fruit weekly, but until you take action I will choose another brand even if the only option is frozen! Stephen Greenberg CA Sharon Jenkins IA Helen Hamilton NJ Donna Knipp NY Richard Falzone OH Annamaria Laverty CO Nicole Dallal NJ David Crawford KY Jose de Arteaga DC Michelle Byron NY Jean Claude Delettrez NY Bobbie Harrison TX
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Martha Strother AR Driscoll's is the brand of fresh berries I normally buy. I was unhappy to learn that one of your main suppliers, Sakuma, mistreats its workers. Please stop buying from them unless and until they change their treatment of farm workers. Until this is publicized, I will stop buying Driscoll's berries. Peter Hannah BC jean holveck PA a fare wage is the least you can do. Sara Giammanco OR Peggy Kriebel WI Judy hiscock NB Pay a fair wage. Susan K. MN Joe Salazar CA Lily Sandoval CA BRIAN FLYNN VT DO THE RIGHT THING. cat bartik---sweeney CA
Leslie Robbins Martin IL Kathi wermter WI Laura Miner NY Janet Oliver OH Theresa Rogers NV Meredith Jones PA Gregory Bliss CT Marilyn Overton WA Boycott until a fair contract is in place! Fred Faust NY James lee GA kathy lopez NJ Shannon rose NC Theresa Speizio NY ghalia zelfo NJ Lori Krane NY Christine Fidler CO Carolyn Klein Harland AB Amy jackson IL Start treating people right! Deborah Mc Donnell OR Darcey Snow WA Sarah Fickling TX Catherine Lambeau WV Donald Nadeau MA Jane Watkins WA Robyn Crawford OK Leslie Miller ME Francesca rossellini OR
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Darcey Zwicky WI Fair pay for fair work, that is what I ask. I enjoy Driscoll Berries (Raspberries, Strawberries & Blueberries) but I certainly can not continue to purchase berries from someone who doesn't care about fair wages for workers that pick the food we eat. Please put you foot down for those in need of it. Tell Sakuma Brother's that you wont purchase from them until they pay their workers a fair wage. It's hard enough to make it by in this world without your own employers honoring your work.
Lisa Breidenbach NC etienne cadotte AB Talia Wight WV ersyla nellajiy CA Karen tanous MA Kimber Yanke MI Cheryl Rigby MA David G HI Heather Drago IL Grace Ruth CA I buy Driscoll berries EVERY week. I will stop until I hear that you stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers. Maria Pelova NT Pamela Utterback PA Marina Zlatin NH Cindy Koch CA Pls. do what's right! Janet Street MA Delora Hill PA Abbey Ash OR Jayna Treen OH Stop supporting human rights violations. Demand fair, legally established working wages and conditions for every person who helps produce your berries. And go all organic while you're at it. You'll sleep better at night knowing you are doing the right thing. Joyce ONeill CT Vita Lawson OR I will NOT purchase any Driscoll berry products until they stand up to Sakuma Brothers and insist that workers are given all legal and human rights as farm workers, along with FAIR, LIVING wages! Jerrilynn Nall OR Christine Turner TX Jude Hillier CA Wanda Ballentine MN gerardo moreno MA Cathy maynard CT Danielle Mountain IL Angenett Taft CA Jeannette Austin MS LeeAnn DuVall WI Lora Looman OR LK Tuominen MN Will not eat Driscoll's---branded products starting now until I hear confirmation. Heather Vind WI Ben Mullen NC
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Kinds Crannell TX Linda Niho WI Carol Cansler CA anonymous anonymous AZ Ava Coleman NY Jack Burg WA Meg bakey NJ Maureen Scheuenstuhl CA Scott Hales CA Let's treat our farm workers fairly.. without them, what would we eat? Edwin Bergmann NY I appreciate the quality of Driscoll---branded berries, but I'll have to stop buying them, if Driscoll continues to buy Sakuma's berries before a fair contract is reached with Familias Unidas por la Justitia. Linda Harrour CA Hannah MacLaren CA T Baker CA Rebecca Lundberg ot Oweni Morring IA i won't be buying Driscoll's until this situation is fairly remedied. Nona Ruth CO History repeats itself because too many think there is no such thing as a win / win. Why would I work my ass off so you can drive a new car and live in a nice house? Because I need money, too. Is there a place to meet in the middle. Berries are so expensive and so good for us --- I normally don't buy. But, if I do, I won't be buying from YOU!!! Share the wealth, you greedy sons of guns ...... It isn't always about "me, me, me". Look in the mirror each day and ask yourself --- would I do this work for what I pay? We know the answer ..... Where is Caesar Chavez when we need him? Diana Brown OR Common Sakuma Brothers...wake up! Shideh hojat CA Julie Jordan CA Alexander D Santiago NY let us love one another Tina Bastajian CA Steven wilson IN Ronald Maxson CA Any company that abuses its employees in such a fashion does not deserve having its products purchased. Margean Kastner MO Elen Kentnor AZ Amy Chu BC Tara Chambers NY Anthony Huljev CA Lauree Eastman WA Edward McClaugherty MD Kristi Blackwell WA Wake--- up Farm work is hard long out in elements etc . Pay should be good etc. working place should have descent running water and sanitation with hand cleaner !! Call Labor Industries & see !! Tim Wong WI C'mon, Driscoll's, please cooperate and treat your workers like the human beings you are. I won't be buying your stuff until you do. Krissy Hughes OR Roland Lindorfer ot
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B. Donelle Stephens CA We don't want berries from farmers who are not paying their workers a living wage and not providing for their other needs in the fields. We won't buy your berries until Sakuma Brothers give their workers fair pay and decent working conditions! Carolyn De Mirjian CA Misty Britskaya BC Timothy Johnson MI Farmworkers at the Sakuma Brothers berry farm in Washington state have been in a years---long struggle for fair pay and rights protection with farm owners. Workers, under the banner of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (United Families for Justice) have been trying to obtain a legally binding contract that ensures a fair wage and decent working conditions.
Jo Pfeffer MO jan noyes NH Monique Verlato CA T.F. Lonte ot Brenda Wallis FL P Carrier NY Please provide fair wages, this is America! Help us be proud. Marianne McNallen CT Dawn Phippen ON I buy Driscolls Organic berries all the time...I will stop Steve O'Neil NC Ross Orr ON john richards ot Amy Trudeau MI Tina Hamilton MD Jeremy Seeger VT Nancy Frisbie NJ Cinzia Caporali ot Sally Anderson MA Loren Lewisohn HI Support workers rights to fair wages...stop workers exploitation! Ann Murdock VA Mary hamilton PA its a sad state of affairs whenever and wherever in justices exists... Melissa Weaver AZ Sylvia Gries ot Mark Bastian ot Simone Oliver CA A F WA Rosemarie Grubba FL Erin Quintana CO Adrian Shanker PA Melissa Chios NY Sharon Keller NY Jason Storlie CA Melanie Wildfong FL patricia dube ME we buy your berries every week but will boycott if needed Heather Mistry NC Caroline E NJ Ana Pairet NJ Who wants bitter sweat berries? marlys mcgarvey MN
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms jeanne Hitchman MA S Tochterman NH Is it that difficult for a company to respect their workers? Sterling Sharp CA If this continues I will also Boycott the Driscoll brand. k. gorman CT Jennifer Anderegg MI Christa Weiss IL Theodore Zook VA Thomas E. McKenna NY Jillian Bogle PA Deb Moon ND I often buy your organic strawberries, but will discontinue buying them if you continue relations with Sakuma Brothers. Hussein Mourtada FL Jairo Molina MN Valerie Sherrill OH Anne Skowron---Floyd OH
Karin Shea FL Terry Heiss MI Pay a living wage ! Doreen Pretty ON Kathleen Espamer PA Elizabeth Mosquera NY Dorothy Neff MI carole caplan MI Ferne Clements OH Michael Conroy CT Pilar Goldstein---Dea MA Milycen De Leon VA Shannon Rea OH Love your berries, but will be boycotting, and informing citizens in the berry aisle when i see them buying Driscolls. Let's do what is right for your company and the world! Fair wages! Lisa Wiese WI olga iva NY Doug Ford BC Beth rees CA injustice flavors the berries in the worst way------with guilt Linda Daubert TX Diana Farsai CA Sheryl Benning WI Kirsten Reid ON Farrell Riley OR Jill Bleyer DE scott vicenzi TX Sarah Hamilton NY Laura Murphy CT William Schroeter NH Earl Ruffner VA LH Langstaff VT My family is a big consumer of Driscoll berries, but we won't be buying them till they "honor labor." John Wolfe NC Carmen Andrews FL
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Diane Arnal UT John MacLean NY John M Milton TX James Kerr CA Tanya Cowperthwaite VA
Gabriele Sillah ot Nancy Dayton NE Brian Isham TX lori campbell ON Mike howell GA Phyllis Schneider TX Jennifer Durham UT j Dreyer CT Richard Arensman MA William Grosh CA Melissa Paquette AB Karen Snowball VA mihoko skabelund KS I don't want fruits harvested in slaving abuse. Please do not taint your good name with that. Erika Faust CA rik sherry PA I refuse to buy anymore of your products until changes are made to improve workers rights & conditions! remember they are the ones that got you where you are!!! mariangela mottola ot We eant a fair world where workers are treated with respect. Do what is right or accept a loss of profit. Robin Cooper CT I USED TO buy your products, but will no longer. Adele E Zimmermann NM Nicola Strum CA Cathy Deptula FL Mary Anne Andrews VA rose zbyzenski CA Jessica McQuarter MI Jack Hurley NY Susan Detato VT I've never really cared for Driscoll's berries, now I know why! Eileen Dailey AZ Alison Winslow GA Tara Zinn TX dylan delay PA Pami Taylor OH Deana Jewett NH Linda Deslauriers CO Mary Ann Hanson--- AZ Germond Tamara Scully NJ Farm workers deserve the best pay and conditions. We deserve food that is wholesome for the workers, the environment and for our health. I won't ever by from Driscolls, and I will be asking local farm markets that sell your products to stop doing so. We'd all be better off if we ate locally, from small farmers, anyway. www.fairworldproject.org 189
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Kerry Kempinski MI Deb French ON Elizabeth Acosta CA Jodie vanderwerf BC Susana C IL Sally Pimpernel ID Maureen Gianinio NJ Mary Kirkpatrick IA I want to buy food that was raised by workers who were fairly paid! Karen Vosburg ON naomi guzman CA Elizabeth M Ferranti MA I'm a long---time customer of your organic berries. I do not know if Sakuma Brothers provides organic berries, but I will be watching to see if you decide to stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! EVERY worker deserves a living wage! Carolyn Clark NY Deborah Schweizer TX Jennifer Sepulveda CA Susan Evans CO I would willingly pay a little more if I knew the people who were picking the fruit were being treated reslpectfully and paid a fair wage. Please do not deal with Sakuma Brothers until they revise their treatment of workers. Jessica norton TX Julie Rhodes TX I just don't understand how you can treat people like this. They are human beings not animals. amy koch OH Melynda Elbennane WA Fair wages for hard workers. Laurene Lambertino--- IL Urquizo Jodi Smart FL Diane Knowles MI valerie rush WI Judith Harrison ME I'll buy your berries again when this is resolved. I previously bought them at Hannaford. Not now. deborah mccall OH Sharon Jabens NE anel diaz IL Carla McDougle TX EVERTONE DESERVES LIVING WAGES.. BE FAIR PLEASE Diane E Medearis IL Marla Holbrook OH domingo e gapuz jr NY Kayleigh Sheckler WA Amy Dall UT Michael lacario FL Robin McGehee NC Carissa Clarke AE Susan Milone NJ Ashlie Timm IL janice twomey CA www.fairworldproject.org 190
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Sherry Russell MD Jessica Tegtmeyer IN No more berries for our family until this is resolved. Be fair. Ally Gopi CA Dora Winwood BC Cassie Long ID LaRene Wolfe CO Fair pay and humane treatment of workers is basic. I am very sad to hear that Sakuma Brothers do not do this. Bailey Parkhurst HI When you treat our workers with respect I will be able to respectfully buy your products again. Heather Anderson CA Rachele Ryan CA Lorraine Gruca VA Driscoll you should be ashamed of associating yourself with Sakuma. I think I'll be looking to other sources for my berries. rosa Loureiro KY janice carson CO Vicki Wonacott CA Mark Lozano CA Paul Villa CO Christine ONeil NC Margaret Redfearn CA I enjoy your products! Esp your raspberries. I hope you will support living wages for your workers! peggy parker TX John Brzostoski PA Josephine Holcomb FL Fernando Cerezal ot Katherine Iosif WA Misti Meehan IN Roslyn Metchis TX Patricia Patten NY Margaret Orcutt CA Please be fair to fruit pickers. Ashley Ramous OH Driscoll --- Until you stop supporting Sakuma, I will stop supporting you. elizabeth de young CA i have bought your organic rasberries for years from costco. I will not buy anymore until you stop buying frpm sakuma bros while they are negating basic rights and wages. Michael Marcella OK susan leonardi CA Nancy Lacy IL jane weller NC respect these people! pay them fairly! Pamela Kniffin NY sarah cottingham MD Done buying berries Robert Kuhns OH Fix this issue or I'll stop buying your berries from Costco and Kroger Nicolas Bernal CA Fairness is key. Rosie Cardenas TX Everybody's voice should be heard ! Sheila. McCandlish WA Betsy Webb NS Mario castronovo FL Paola Hack NH Seema Islam ot jan marsden TX everyone needs fair pay and good working conditions,
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Sher Grotts CA jay newman TX Jennifer Colletti NC Susan Estabrook ME Cathy Bassett OR Sharon Garlena MD People deserve a fair living wage and safe work enviroments. Courtney Fay NY How can anyone not pay another a living wage? It is the ultimate disrespect and hypocrisy. angelica palomo IL Karen Bukis WA I will watch for updates before purchasing Driscoll labeled berries. caroline Hunter AZ stop exploiting these people! Gail MacInnis ME Lynne simmerman KS Alainna dePoalo NJ Claire Josefine CA Purchasing organic food is meaningless if the people growing and harvesting it are being exploited. If you do not boycott Sakuma until they negotiate with their workers in good faith and uphold their promises, then I will boycott Driscoll. Amy Leroy CA Tara Prashad ON geoffrey whittles MA sharon ledbetter OR I buy lots of your berries, unknowingly supporting this type of behavior.I will no longer buy your product, until I hear from Fairworld that Sakuma Brothers have signed a fair contract with and treating the people who pick the berries with respect. laura ryan WA do right by these people or face a boycott of your berries elisha trujillo AZ Martha Nochimson NY Treating American workers fairly matters to me as a consumer. Lisa Twomey CA Mark McAdams CA I eat Driscoll berries that I purchase at both Ralph's and Trader Joe.s. I will no longer purchase them. jeanne wheeler NM I don't want sad berries & so I'll no longer buy any of yours until proper labor practices are implemented by your source companies…. Martha Adams VA Vibeke Vale ON I only buy food for my family that is organic, non---gmo, and cruelty free. Elizabeth Numann OR I have bought your organic strawberries for quite a few years but will discontinue doing so until I know for certain that the people picking and processing those strawberries are being paid a living wage. Diana Koutinas TX Mora Dewey OR Anton Nemeth CA Armando gallegos CA Denise McEntee NC Patricia Steiner MA Donna Waltman OK Ana White WA
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Adrian Romero UT Have a heart. These workers strife and suffer in ways that most Americans. could never imagine and for barely anything, all in the name of profit and big business. Do you really think that's okay? I will get people to boycott your products if you keep doing business with slave drivers. Linda Bartko PA Stephanie Schubert CO Andrew Schoeberl MN Lisa Gardner CA Driscoll, a trusted brand I buy weekly from, can do better. Debbie Brown NC keep the improvements coming, it'll enhance your 'image', increase your sales & the world will be a better place. Diane Liss NY Michelle Chambers CA James Bransfield IL Elizabeth McNally ON I won't purchase Driscoll Products until I hear that all workers receive fair pay. Deborah Butler MA I will boycott Driscoll's until they kick Sukuma to the curve! carol cavanaugh PA i do not want to purchase berries from a co who is not fair to employees Susannah Knox SC Ayesha Dawley MN carolyn white FL samantha nyberg MN dahlia nichols NY Roger Woodcock ME Gloria Levitt NJ mollie smith WA yvonne demeter CA Barb Ackerman CA Todd Sargent OR Linda D BC I am boycotting your berries and encouraging family and friends to do the same until you do the right thing and pay these people a fair wage and give them decent working conditions. Ali becker GA dale durland CO I buy a lot of your berries. I will boycott them until your supplier treats their workers fairly. Chris stellhorn TX Marylyn Nolan CT elli navid CA Amanda Ashoo NM Jon Wilk CA Mike niemchak NC Katherine Zsolt CA Love your berries....will miss them .... I trust I will again be eating them in the future. Rebeca Arredondo MI Its time to end "modern slavery". Please be fair to the ones that make your food profits possible , with out them, you have no business and you know it, thank you. Lauren Edmond NC alyssa deck IN Loretta mento NJ
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Annie Eliopoulos IL Barry Swedlow VA Marie Yerardi MA Gaston Perez TX jeannine ufford UT Jenny McClanahan OH Please stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias!!! colleen beck CA We consume your berries all year long! Please do the right thing for workers. Neva Berry TX Christy Wilkinson SC Barbara Beam IL I buy a container of Driscoll berries every other week. I will boycott if necessary. Kelleen Farrell CA Alyse Dichiara CA S Mumford ot lori peniche TX Penny Crooks TX Remember what respect is? These are people too as you and I are, and they deserve to get paid minimum wage or more. Remember Karma , it applies to all. Honor your labor force and stop being greedy. Greed comes from attachment. diane swerman MN Vicki Parker IL Edward Dorundo PA Lori Laurette ON Nora Leslie GA Maryann atlas CT Driscoll, stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers!!!! Lance Hansen CA Carla Dummerauf AK Lisa Stanley OR Donna Katz IL Elizabeth Patten NH Shame on you Driscoll's. Pamela Olson MA Rose Roussett CA We won't be buying your berries Stephanie Demos CA buy organic and fair trade only Rodrigo Eguez CA Meagan Morais MA Marcella Martinson OR Paul Rasmussen RI Miriam Santana PR Everyone should be paid fair wages. If it weren't for the workers, the companies wouldn't be making millions. David Palacios GA Sylvia Cavener TX Sara cho CA Ara Johnson CA Allison Anderson MS Chris Cosbey NM sharon paull IL Elizabeth Hope MN
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Teri Eaves OR su johnson IA Will Yeager CA Lar Rogers IL Shelly Worob AZ Steve Nepi CO Rachel Harmon IN Jennifer Downing NJ Cinda royse VA darlene bursch CA I have always bought driscoll's berries, because I have trusted the name and quality of their product. But thinking of how unfairly these workers are being treated, has made me choose to look for another source from which to buy my berries. And I will do so until driscoll's honors the rights of the farmworkers. Tia Triplett CA christine Smart VT Love your fruit. .. You have leverage in this business. I would pay more for your product to help ensure that these human beings get a fair deal. Brenda Elizondo TX Tricia Olson FL June Douglas OH Vanda Brkicova ot Tamara kneisel CO Keith Loomis NY Honor labor Honor promises Honor agreements and Honor and protect your good name Lisa Zelko PA Treat people properly and the money will properly flow. james lutz TN Jodi Macdonald MA Sarah Lerda CA I will no longer purchase Driscoll's products until this is resolved. Steve De Sanctis CA Janet Jedlicka WI I will not buy Driscoll berries until I hear that progress has been made to give the pickers fair wages and working conditions. Veronica Rehne ot Timothy Burns AZ Sharon Zayac IL susan pokorny CA lisa readance OH I LOVE STRAWBERRIES, BUT ONLY ORGANIC ONES. STRAWBERRY LOVERS DON'T WANT DIRTY STRAWBERRIES! Danielle Foster VA Jim Pence NV Brooke Sampson TX Rebecca Thompson NV
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Gina Pantier WA Theresa Titone CO I buy you berries all the time, but I don't want to support a company that won't do the right thing. Deborah Latham OH Susan Kutz NM Miss Novella Adoue NY Dalia Zatkin CA barbara craven VA Kicken Westerlund WA Colleen Johnson BC savanah kite GA Susan Anderson CA ALEXIANDRA KAZSANOV NY Kathleen Carlin MT Lauren Reiner OR Leigh O'Brien NY Rosalie Schneider CA Dan Feinstein NY Susan Waldman NJ Patricia Torrecillas SC Do the right thing Driscoll!! We are watching you Robert Taylor NC aprl snyder CA James Young HI C. Warren Pope NC Jessica Polacheck WI Diana Sanderson ME Teri Simpson OR Anna Hawkes OR elana levy CA in an area where many driscoll berries are sold, i will no longer --- purchase any with the driscoll labor until this issue is resolved. élana levy Maureen Mahoney MA Marjorie kirk OH david gates CA It saddens me to hear this news. I will no longer purchase Driscoll brand anything; it was my preferred choice of packaged berry. ------Unless there is a big news story indicating a favorable labor contract between Sakuma Brothers and their employees, I shall not be returning to your brand. ------This effectively means you have lost a customer, permanently. ------I make over 100k per year, and feed my young children POUNDS of fresh, expensive berries every week; no longer shall they be Driscoll's.
Maria Angeles Ojero ot Melissa Wenzel MN I will not buy Driscoll's berries until this situation is improved. I will try to only buy local produce when I can. Barbara Pomierski IL Elizabeth Murphy TX Susan Wade NC Riff Millar WA Conni Varela OR
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Cristina Fiorillo NY Stephen Rebello CA James L Wolcott IN Susan N Todd OR rachael Fernandez CT Evelyn Och PA Lauren Bonnema NJ Yonit Yogev WA L. Alvarado CA Shirley Crenshaw MO Gayle Grana AZ I usually buy your organic berries. Please stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers. I care about my food and the people who grow it. mari Martínez CA Jo Roseborough ID Lyssa Witbeck CA Curious how people making these decisions sleep at night? When you know they are underpaying the workers that work so hard, why would you increase your purchases from a greedy company with terrible morals? Do the right thing, someone taught you how I am sure, don't be a part of unethical greed! Sergi Goldman---Hull CA Emily McGill BC Miriam Kaplan NY Rhian Morris CA Sandra Hall MA elizabeth tyler NJ Laura Soriano TX Mary Skirving OH Andrew Dunbar NH Elaine Giammetta NJ Lani Reinhart CA Jodi burg CO Tim Rose FL Linda Schermer AZ Michelle Algiere CT Joanne Ross OR I will not buy any more of your products until you make sure that the people you buy from are paying their workers a decent wage and giving them the benefits they deserve. Elizabeth Peterson NY Connie Garber ME Terri Zgolli OR Amanda graham MA Anna Rossell TX Dana Geffner OR Rhonda Snyder CA Terri Beebe AZ Eva pettersson CA
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Mary Oakley WA We used to enjoy Sakuma Bros. berries, purchased at the farm and at Central Market, but until they treat their workers fairly I'll be boycotting them and telling my friends to boycott also. Next up: a letter to Central Market in Mill Creek to let them know why they shouldn't be patronizing Sakuma Bros. Edwin DeMott III VT david lesniak NY Negotiate and pay a fare wage!!! We will stop buying your products if you don't. ------David Yolanda Markle WA michael eason AZ Judee Guilmette CO Theresa Kelly NY mr blackberri CA Kat Osorio MD Kawehi Kaikaina HI Darcy Erickson MN Susan Grey CO liz murphy CT Janine Jones KS Will not purchase products from Driscolli Michelle Anderson CO Christine Park MA I always purchase Driscoll Strawberries but I cannot continue to do so in light of the way the workers are being treated! Fair is fair! nick quinlan MI no more Driscolls berries for me or my family Carolina Machado MA Fair wages now Terrie Frye CA Carolyn Merrill OR I love berries but I WILL stop buying them to support the workers. Good luck finding replacement workers as no one in their right mind will do this back breaking work for such unfair wages. Andrea Boone CA I live in Santa Cruz County, where Driscoll has many fields of berries. I will not buy Driscoll berries and will let local papers know about this if you do not help workers get a fair wage. Scott Warwick CA Hildy Ismail FL David Argall ot Increase credibility and support the boycott Driscolls elizabeth Kieding AZ Leah McKain PA k aamodt WI These workers deserve respect and fair pay. James Thompson NV Unmani Sarasvati CA Sharon Szabados CO Dona Rhoads PA We often buy and enjoy Driscoll products. Please support the workers at Sakuma Bros. berry farm. They deserve to be treated fairly. We will, sadly, boycott Driscoll products until we hear that appropriate changes have been made. Rachel Portela NJ cynthia carter VA Alison Bowe WI John and Joan Casey OR
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Lynn Colwell WA What's the big deal? So you make a little less and the people who are doing the work make a little more. Put on the pressure so those of us who buy know we buying from a company that does the right thing. Lauren Dentzman IL Please do not buy from places that do not respect human dignity. I also value community and sustainability and sincerely hope that you make the best decision. Thank you. Brandi Reinhardt TX Colleen Habrecht CA Barbara Fiscarel NY Sharon Wren IL Leslie Smith FL Please stand up with the farm workers. We want all people to be treated with respect, and paid a fair wage. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Joy Aleccia MI mary braunger WA Leann Dupre CA yvette guarracino NJ Deb Escobar NY Diane Wixted FL Beverly Barton OK Laurie Murphy TX Laura Smith NC P Galbavy AZ Kim Holmberg MN Stop doing business with a company that misTreats those that work their a$$es off for you!! Ingrid Belenson ON Support the workers and stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! Gertrude Kelly NM Emily Carter IA Kenna Elizabeth CA At $5.99 for a small (6 oz) package of organic raspberries, I would certainly think that already justifies paying the workers that pick them a decent wage and reasonable working conditions. Michele Wojnar NY Christina Austin FL Katherine Myskowski CA Linda Culler CA Melissa Meyers OH Zeeshan Majeed TX Tracy glenn FL Lara Derasary UT Flora Gallagher NJ Deborah Baker NC Holly Listopad IL Thuy Nguyen MA Monica Reis NY Rachel McDonnell MN Michelle Trent FL
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Joan Polzin CT Patricia Siri IN Julie Greenfield CA Lisa Hopper CA Sybille Hartmann GA Amy Reese CA Joe Schott IA Michelle Beauchamp OH Donisa Harris FL Deniz A---McCoy MN Molly Hauck MD Sonia Blais FL Joanne White MA Desirae Rodriguez TX I stand for fair wages!! Kate Fleenor AK I won't be buying your fruit until this is resolved! paulina ospina CA Pat Makowski MN Alex Nagy NJ Marian Grebanier OR Until you stop buying berries from Sakuma Brother while they mistreat their workers, I cannot, in good conscience, buy anymore of your fruit. Hopefully, you can put the necessary pressure on Sakuma Brothers to stop their abuse. Paul bigelow WA fair trade is very important!!! Chelcey Akins MO Sibby Houghton MA philippe bellavance QC Corrina Lindblom CA Tori Coto CA I won't be buying Driscoll raspberries until you clean this up. don cooke HI justice Sharon parfitt ot Richita Anderson NY I am switching from Driscoll berrys which i used to always bur. Shame on them.. Telling all my friends!! Claire Chambers CA Dean Mindock IL Please be fair to fellow humans. Phil Newton OR David Addison VA Valerie Carter OK Kimberly Wiley NY karen Johnson MN Lourdes Garcia CA kathy chamers CT Maggie Kupec ON Traci Dunkel CA I will no loger buy your berries until you do right by these people! Diane Whitlock MO Catherine Marden CA Karol King TX Catherine Fontanazza WI Betty Carroll CA Kai Nau CA
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Cheryl vosburg VA sara resh PA Robert Sorich TX Dawn Johnson MI Heather Quinlan CA Cecilia Jones MO Raelene Roth CA Angelina Ieraci ON I can't enjoy these foods knowing that the people who harvest them are treated unfairly. Boycotting for now. Andrea Green MA Driscoll, --- Your really good berries are tainted with unfair labor practices. Do the right thing and pressure Sakuma! Maria bautista CA Dave Vose MA Glenn Smith FL Madge Torres CA I'm boycotting Driscoll's until Sakuma Brothers treat the workers with dignity and fairness. alicia dion QC carol kobetitsch NY Matt Brown DE Deborah Emin NY Lylianna Allala WA Ellen Johnson OR Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justica. Cheryl Walker MD carol mariani GA I do buy your berries and will stop if I have to. Lynette Schmidt CA I am and organic farmer and grow raspberries. It takes great hands to feel the ripe one. Honor the Labor you use to make you money for you. Annie Foy WA Karen Butts IL I will no longer buy the Driscoll brand. sharon lomomaco CA Christine Villeneuve ON I am a regular customer of Driscoll's and until today, did not know that they work with a company that exploits workers. As long as they work with Sakuma Brothers and do not put in place a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia, I will NEVER purchase from Driscoll's!!!! Patricia Blochowiak OH Julie Ozias MI Sarah Covert---Bowlds WA vlado ketch NJ paul maysonave CA Linda Scott MD I will not purchase Driscoll products until you stop dealing with Sukuma, until the have fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justica... Justice for family's ... I will also post this and urge all my family and friends to do the same... Jane Dillard TX Let it be known that Driscoll will not take this kind of abuse towards farm workers! Community and sustainablity are supposed to be #1!!! Janet Lister KS Sherry Fletcher NC Julie Stevenson GA Mary Kay Benson CA
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms amy george CA Rebekkah L---Moodje NY Delores Tollas IL Karen Bump MA Sherry todd TX i pay a lot for your organic berries and I expect that you share that with your workers in an equitable fashion! Gordon Wagner CA BE JUST AND FEAR NOT Konstantine Mavromatis CA Do the right thing, don't be greedy, do unto others as you would have them treat you! Ayaana Toure VA Albert Utzig CA Carla Head MS Mary Orlich MO peter samson IL Lauren MACK TX Elizabeth Howell NY Joy Keeping TX Sarah Schwartz OH Esther Webber CA wendy gardner NM Cathy Ream MT Rakesh Chandranatha CO paul stein NY berenice munoz CA Lauren Renaud CA James K Hadcroft MA I am a Veteran, Active Voter and TaxPayer. As a Veteran I put my life on the line for Democracy. This missive is Democracy in action. Please help stop the plutocratic take over and save American Democracy and the middle class. Re---instating the Glass–Steagall Act is a good place to begin. It is a sad fact that national socialist philosophy now drives the republican party. Melissa Martinez CA Howard White DC Kathe Garbrick KS Glenn Gawinowicz PA Sheri Bresson CT d lap NJ Richard DeSantis CA I am a Driscoll's loyal buyer, I was dismayed to read about this. Timothy Taylor CA Lorraine Swanson NE Michelle McClendon TX Pay workers what they are WORTH, not the lowest amount you feel you can get away with! Diane Cribley CO Bill Polesnak MI I quit buying Driscoll's. Bruce S. Kessler MN Workers work hard and hardly get paid. Pay workers well and while you are at it treat them well as well. Thank you for treating workers equitably and fairly. John Meserve MA Howard Cohen CA
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Anna Connolly CA Lois Banks ON Victoria Loudis NY Brenda Balanda CA Do the right thing. You and your suppliers can still make profits while providing fair wages and decent working conditions for the labor that makes your business possible. Maureen Sullivan VA J Macfarland AZ Victor Becerra IA Robert Helm OR Laura Britto CA i have been a customer of Driscoll Berries for years. however, i am suspending further purchases until you stop your affiliation with Sakuma Brothers Farms. i will also be informing my local grocer of this. Please do the right thing. Randall Outland NC Nicole Ray TX Ingrid Pichel CA Benjamin McKean OH moira woods OR Miles Linklater BC We buy a LOT of Driscoll berries in our household every week. That behavior will cease until this situation is recitifed by Driscoll. Martina Barnard MI Alessandra Sorrentino ot Diana David CO Stephen Smith PA Joan Melton NC Joe Bergmann BC Driscoll's berries are available here in BC, and I will not purchase them again while this dispute lasts. Julia Weaver CA Mark Levin PA Susan Hurwitz NJ Linda Kniolek TX irene romulo IL Tony Bolo CA NO SLAVES! Beth Senn NV Come on... really??!! Bye bye to your business! Randall Yrjanson MN Taking care of your workers --- such as giving safe working conditions and treating them with respect, has been proven to be the best business practice time and time again. Diana Crane TX ann sprayregen NY Sally DeHart CA Driscoll stop punishing your workers and support sustainable clean berries. Sandra Goodwin CA Ricki de Wolff CA Dorothy Mikos MA Fielding Yost MI I buy a lot of driscoll's berries so I'll be sad to stop if it comes to a boycott. Farm labor is hard labor. Compensate fairly. Margaret Pengelly ON I am not going to buy any more products from Driscoll's until they get on board and support UFJ and stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers.
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Debra Covert---Bowlds WA I am spreading the word throughout Seattle via the efforts of the Seattle Farm Worker Solidarity Committee. Jill Remsey FL barbara chase FL Shira Lebovich NY Madeline Goodman CA Margaret Ohlheiser CO Nancy Bengtson AZ lora lopez CA rebecca winters OR One serious issue is exposure to pesticides. That is why I buy organic. Emily O'Hare NC It is only just to pay farmworkers an honest wage and to treat them with the respect they deserve. I am boycotting Driscoll. Joy Wall HI Candace Shadbolt OR Arthur Rossignol QC Karen Dindia OR Anthony Husarenko NJ Todd Scofield WA patti Tringhese OH Egidijus Musvickas ot Charlotte Shnaider VA Cathy Goodrich CA Carol Aspinwall NC It really does matter that all of the people who are involved in the production of products that you sell be treated just like you want to be treated. Denise Thomas MN Chuck Ungs Ungs IA Doris (Jody) Wilson WA Driscoll strawberries are my favorite! But I shall not be buying any more of them until Sakuma Brothers negotiates a fair contract with its berrypickers. Debra Bradford TX Sandra Optenberg WI ann mayo CA Patricia McCarron CA Margaret White FL Dana Maria WA Kelsey Copeland ID Rebecca Wolf CA Sylvia Vikingstad WA Debra Hanson WI Greg Lunger NV Margaret Moncy MA Julie Reisner OR I will not be purchasing Driscoll's berries until I am assured that Sakuma Brothers berry farm in Washington State have signed a legally binding contract that ensures fair wages and decent working conditions for the field workers. I expect Driscoll to insure that Sakuma yields to pressure to treat --- labor fairly and with respect. Thank you. Sara Hinchey ON Eimear Gallagher ot
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Ann LeClaire NY Hoping the boycott is successful. Farmworkers deserve fair treatment. Carolyn Myres TX Angelica Garcia CA Simon Barrett ON Peppi Enos MN Joan Stone CA Gary Bettega IL Marti Wesley MI Wouldn't you like to start something,? Buying from farms that respect the dignity of their workers? If you advertised this you would double your sales! People are adking for more when they shop. Please think about it. Manisha Patel NJ Virginia Collins CA Please! ALFRED PAPILLON SC Victoria Velasco CA G. Wayne Hild TX Thea Wang CA Pieter Hull NM chelsea haskell OR Kathy Simons CA sara shaw VA I will not be buying anymore Driscolls berries from now on. its unfortunate because they are for sale in nearly every supermarket. marcus nerone FL Diana R CA Please treat your workers fairly, so we can continue to buy your berries! Shirlee Miller NC Rev Gregory Yaroslow CA Jacqueline Casillas AR Barbara Mader NM Julie Toman WI Giacomo Reggente NJ Belzahi Badell FL Joe De Hoyos CA Breeanna Rolison CA The Rev. Mary Dimand CO Ann Sean G NJ Olympia Foster CA Cheryl Stone IA Gloria---Jean Berberich NY N. Schneider MD Tracy moch IL Neelam Saggere IL Sarah Gawboy CA Raymond Kanarick WA Martha Hauer CO I'll not buy ANY of your products until you have taken care of those that allow you to make money: your workers. Marylyle McCue PA Helga Wells NC Paula Rowe CA
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Robbie Duren GA Luise Levy AZ Fair wages for honest work. Stop supporting Sakuma Brothers until they make their contract fair. Deborah Crocker MN Angela Cortese CA Lisa Esposito NC Amanda Miller AK Bruce Berkbigler WA Berries are essential to our health. How can Sakuma Brother's be so arrogant to not give good treatment to the workers that bring in the Berries? Meya Law MD Lisa R. OH Babara Schrier NY Melinda Oslie CA For Goodness Sake, Folks! Do the Right Thing! susan heaver PA S. Donofrie IL Teresa Poku NJ Alejandra Olivos WA Marylouise Eckhart OH K Lucas CA Ardis Macaulay OH Cristal Pena WA Samantha Taylor OR Wyatt Hale PA Maryanne MacLeod MA Workers need to be treated fairly and our berries need to be clean. I am boycotting Driscoll products until this situation is resolved favorably Ida Brinkschroeder IA
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Mario Zdybel IL Mercedes Delgado WA Heber Garcia WA Linda Birch l FL I will wait to see what your company does before I purchase your products. Raquel Rojo CA Miriam Wolf VT Lucy Mason MO LOW PAY IS NOT OKAY! Steve Bohrer MA Linda Baker TX Don Waller CO Julie Smith CA Scott Workinger CA Roger Butterfield FL Justicia por los trabajadores! Bonnie Morton WI Valerie Watts CA
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Louise Gagné QC Katlyn Morris VT Dave King OR we have always loved your berries. But.... Suzanne Sherwood KS Elizabeth Thomson MA Yama Hasheem CA Barbara Kavanaugh WA Driscoll, ------Do the right thing, boycott Sakuma until they treat their workers with respect. ------Life is short, be amazing, ------Barbara Mason Costantino WA Frances Hinkins UT Ethel Karavasileiadis MA Martha McMahon WA Jack Stansfield WA Joseph Ciddio NM Linda Censorio MA Nanlouise Wolfe CA Nanlouise Wolfe CA Lori Snyder PA chris davis CA please do the right thing, it will be easy for you and it will make the world a better place Jessica Given GA judy mertz PA Rosalie Malter AZ Bryan Marton PA qamar takhyan IN Allanah Anderson UT Mallory Musser WA Patricia Ruelas WA Ana M Garza TX Susan Rivo MA Oudrey Monzon CA terry ellis CA Jennifer Morris BC Ann Hallowell NY William Batson WA Linda Stein CA David Judd MO Ella Mack CA Junko Card CA Regina Kolber NY I buy Driscoll all the time. Do the right thing or you'll lose a customer. Patrick Jean NC Jessica Ramirez WA boycott the berries! Victoria Gavia CA aida suidan GA A.L. Rinfret BC I commit to not buying any Driscoll produce until I hear some good news; that they stop purchasing from Sakuma Bros. until a fair contract is obtained. Bruce Coston CA Stop the insanity . Linda Hubbard CA
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Rik Masterson OR Tara Gilmaher CA Michele Pellman NE Karen Price WA Maryann LaNew CA jessica a HI Regina SAntora IL Be fair, decent, and compassionate. All people deserve to live a good life. Give them a decent days wage for their work and decent working conditions. I find this deplorable that anyone could deny these rights to others. Elisabeth Richter ot Jeff Schroeder IL Sunita Prasad NY matt malina NY BeBe Daeffler FL Patrica Brickner NC Heather Weightman CA Ankit Vadher IL richard binns AB M D ot Ann Clark CA Will no longer buy Driscoll !! Sharla Pierick CA Charise Estrada CA Alicia Rubi NY Honor the labor of the fruit pickers by paying them a decent living salary!!! --- Boycotting your products is the way to go if we don't see results!!! Jean Kuntz MO DANIA DIAZ CA Nicolette Barr CA Joy Elkin SK Christina Volgyesi OR Mike Stacy CA Lani Ready CA Elaine Albertson WA GRANT VAN PESKI CA nina vujko CA martin kenney CA GAIL TRIPP CA Sharon Casey CA Down with Driscoll's :( Nancy Noloboff WA John Sodrel IN Ellen Ribolla CT Susanna Avila CA Marjorie Schwartz CA Darcy Shiber---Knowles CA All trade should be fair and just.
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Regina Diaz CA shauna olmos CA Joanne Luongo WA Fair pay is not an option, it is mandatory!! Erika Lundahl WA Lilia Vergara CA Joan Stigliani NM Lisa Sons IL Miguel Santiago CA Heather Christianson WA Stop purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia! Mary King OH zulemy navarrete CA Julie Stephens IA BERTINE KABELLIS CA Karina Black CO Megan Chambers WA sylvia bello CA Barbara Vico CA Michael Aubert FL Dan Faucher QC Melissa Kosmicki PA Naomi Mazy CA Sharon Bahl MO Christine Magnusson IL Virginia Frausto WA Gina Coccari CA Annie Clarke CA Celeste Henry PA Hamada Yehya IL Thiago Valle OR Karen O'Loughlin CO Kathy Mason PA Now I have to stop buying berries from Driscol and anyone else who sources from Washington State. And I love my berries. Cindy skrent MI David Bronner CA Max Pappas CO Would you work for these wages and working conditions? Jack Finkenberg NY Come on America. We can do better. Mike Bronner CA Come on Driscoll! Make sure you walk your talk!! Vicki Alcoset CA Keith Stewart NV Theresa Martinez FL Karina Tettero CA I will no longer buy your products until you stop supporting farms such as the Sakuma Brothers! rodger graham II CA Mary Seeber CO Barbara Fink MD Alessandro Raganato CA Julie Heinrich VA lisa moore NY
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms carolyn bain WA Nerissa Morgan TX This is asinine we need to protect all workers on farms who are providing organic food to keep us healthy. It takes all of US to help each other and to do what is right. One Earth Kurtz IN So sorry because We buy and eat a lot of berries! Gallery M. T. CA Amna Akbar OH Every Citizen WA This is not a matter of profit and loss; it's a matter of life with dignity and equity or not. Shame on Sakuma Brother's Farms for their bad deeds. I not only boycott Sakuma, I boycott Driscoll because of it's support of Sakuma. And I tell my friends and family to do so, as well. ------You have an opportunity to do the right thing. Is the price to Driscoll's reputation worth it? I encourage you to suspend purchases from Sakuma Brother's until such time they treat the human being who work for them fairly and equitably. Stephanie McCarter TX Mary A Dykes WI For those who provide the food for our tables let us provide adequate wages and working conditions. It is a matter of justice. John Laughlin WI Heather Jackson WA Thye are human too, fair wages! Susaan Aram CA Gurbeen Bhasin ON K M Dickman PA S Siegel NY Marco Fanari NM Ruthie Loeffelbein CA Ginger Affolter CA Diane Jelen VA Willoe Traver NM Ernest Thayer CA Marie ramirez TX Marta Schipporeit WI Daniel Campbell IL Josephine Carbone IL ayanna smith MI Kathy Adams IN Fair treatment for all workers in USA. Even those were not born here or are here without a green card. Everyone who works in America deserves fair wages, healthcare and a respect. Are you true Americans Sakuma Brothers? We ended slavery over a hundred years ago. Did you know that? President Lincoln would not proud of the way you treat your workers. I will not buy any products from this company until it improves workers conditions. Time to own up Driscoll's. Do not do business with Sakuma Brothers Berries. miquiztli Ts'aal TX Evelyn Cruz CA K Arnheiter NJ Christian Major QC
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Robert Barcenas TX Marie Randall FL Alexis Strickling AZ Amanda Evens WI Riley Lawrence NV Bernadette Maness AR Please follow your heart and refuse to buy from the Sakuma Brothers Farms unless they treat their workers fairly! My family buys Driscoll berries every week, but I will look for other brands until this is resolved.. Please do what is right! Donna Etheridge NC Vanessa Favero NY LINDA HILLMAN CA Jayne McCubbin ot naurlene canterman AZ Rhonda Danner OH Janet Barr KS JoAnn Melgar CA I am also going to ask our local grocery stores to stop carrying your berries. Your company has the power to stop abuses like this. Please think of these workers and not just about the bottom line. Linda Bryce NY Artsy Poets CO We won't use your berries until you get your act together. Sakuma Brothers needs to pay their workers fairly! Julie Sparks CA I just watched "Food Chains," and I had to ask, why do we still have the kind of exploitation depicted in "Harvest of Shame" more than a half--- century ago? It's time to live up to our ideals, people! Gail Camhi CA You MUST honor these workers~!!! Alexandra Bradbury NY Lynnea Donai TN I LOVE berries, ORGANIC ones...I will not buy any berries from Driscolls until you change this policy. John Currie BC Lisa Sass Zaragoza MN Katia Chapman NY Labor rights are human rights! You have the power, and financial capacity, to make a change. Karlene Gunter NY Erin Murphy CA Connor Keese CA Naomi Bosch CA Chas Hayes ot Stan Squires BC These workers need a union so that they won't be treated like slaves. Andre Rousseau ot jill tulchinsky IN Therese de Vet AZ Driscall: I buy tons of your berries, but will stop if you force me to.... shigueru tsuha CA sherryann pardee CA Rachel Scarlata CO H. Fleishon MA Bettemae Johnson NM Ben M DC G.W. Cheney NC
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Joe sanders NY Steven Stansbery CA Hugh Kessel WA Jerry Rivers NY Liz Lee OH Lisa Gosnell DE Ruh Roh! Your moral compass is broken... J Jancovich ot Nicoleta Sava ot ashley rafalow NY Paula McDermott TX I will be contacting my local food coop as an owner about voting on a possible boycott of Driscoll's, if they continue to buy from Sakuma Brothers before they resolve this labor dispute and provide fair pay and working conditions. Ruth Fast IL Denise Romesburg AZ Debbie Schultze NY I love your strawberries. They are my berry of choice at my supermarket. I will no longer purchase them until I hear that you have stopped supporting this abuse by way of discontinuing your relationship with Sakuma Brother's until they do right by their workers. Thank you for listening. TED HARRISON MI Mark Winne NM Let's pay our food workers fairly. Their lives and ours depend on it. Thank you. Mark Winne Oscar Landé ot Joe Galati ON Vasu Murti CA Venedel Herbito CA William Morris OR Jeanette Traudt CO David Kricker MA Jose Guzman NB Justicia para los trabajadores ahora bob gallagher PA Adrienne Tripp CA Dear Driscoll: Show your leadership and maintain relevance in a growing, necessary, sustainable food/production system by supporting only fair, just, and sustainable labor practices. Roger Blackwell ot Piet Noppen ot g g WA Phyllis Bodin MD Deanna Knickerbocker CA Becky Daiss VA Dave Hendrickson BC Claire McNeill Yorktown When I buy strawberries I don't want my purchase to hurt the farm Hts workers. Buying organic is about the whole system! Bruno Eckert ot Mark Cappetta CA Gail Battaglia OR You should see the conditions at the Driscoll trawberry farms down in Mexico. Horrific!!! mary oconnell ot I'm Austrailian but I bought Driscoll berries (Australian) yesterday www.fairworldproject.org 214
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Melissa Arvin MD Norman Traub ot Victor Delgado Jr TX jessi stitt NC Kristy Sokol OR Jane Wood ot Rocio Carranza WA Kelly Grant CA
Annabelle Keene NE john cevasco MA Don Samaniego NV You are now officially on the peoples radar. Your actions will determine your success or failure....Do what's right, morally and you will not only save others....but yourselves as well...... Elizabeth Abrantes ON Rev.Jim Conn CA Joel Kay OR Vivian Schatz PA S Jitreun ot Sally Simpson TX Maggie Gray NY Betty Marr VA Deborah Montgomery FL pat turney CA Peter Townsend ot Fair pay and working rights together with dignity at work should be available to all. E B IL mi ferrro MA Rupert Kugler ot Kathleen O'Nan CA Jack Hamilton IN Dolores Pieper IN Tusi Ritachild MA Fairness is far more important than greed. Carol---Lynn Jones ON Julieann Palumbo WA james roberts CA Ann Huynh WA Christina Fong MI diana betancourt WA Marcia Gordon PA I buy your organic products, but will buy Cascade's products until I hear your workers are treated fairly. Tram Ho WA Sandra Koppel NY blanche wilcox MN Gro Standal ot Michael Wolff MA Brian Deane ot Harry Richey FL JAMES PAPANDREA NY
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Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Carolyn Murdock NC Driscoll products are in the markets I use and until their pickers are treated with justice via United Families for Justice I'm going to stop my purchases and contact the heads of each of the markets to educate them about your lack of corporate conscience. Jeffrey Gaskins MD Egli Veronika und ot Andreas lee moore ON have purchased a lot of these berries --- am going to contact my grocery stores Christina DiJulio CA Monica Waligorski IL James DeSeranno WA Susan Duhig MO Samantha Siler OH Theresa Fusco ME Mr and Mrs Huff IN Richard N Meg Smeltzer VA Steven Fladhammer MT I am the produce manager at the Community Food Co---op in Bozeman, MT. We will not be purchasing Driscoll berries until we are assured that these labor disputes are resolved. Kathryn Gill CA Peter Silbereisen ot John Bhend MI Janice Myers PA Arthur Thomas MI Adam Walker ot sarah sacci gay MT sarah Petersen MN Julia Wilber MN letizia balsamo ot Erico Martins ot Kileann Uhlenhopp MN debbie mannion MO Natalie Nevera FL Samantha Maffeo IL Gayle Smith CA Carole Huelsberg WA Ann Maijala CA Heather Hale MI Mary Vogel NM Talk is cheap. Workers deserve fair wages. Please stand by your stated commitments. Susan Masiak MI I've bought Driscoll's berries frequently but will not again until this is resolved. Yun Chen TX Deborah Barner CT Lee McFarlane ot Penelope Lord ME J. Mooren ot www.fairworldproject.org 216
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Teresa Reno OH c c NJ John Richkus NJ Alice Hendrix CA Linda Adsit NY Cam Krosnoff TX Please cease purchasing from Sakuma Brother's until they have a fair contract with Families Unidas por la Justica. elisha naylor GA Rosie Sirek WA People need a living wage. Sue Broeren WI jerrine brugh NE Courtney Patterson IN please help all the workers who provide your products to live with decent pay. stuart comen CT Miriah Reynolds PA Linda Sharkey SC Barbara Jackson CO Michael Ho CA matthew dean FL Barbara Brandler NY Susan Racine MA Lara del Rio ot Ronald Richardson IA STACIE CHARLEBOIS CA Janet Wingert PA Be just for those who do the work. sylvia r FL Marla Flores---Jauregui CA Caesar Chavez is rolling in his grave. Why are we here again?
Nancy Curott CO Nnacy Chisholm AB Nancy Lagunas TX Michelle Blanch GA Clay Brantley TX Sara Polo NJ Jane Tavener ot Darlene Young HI Jennifer Vassil VA I have purchased many packages of Driscoll's berries in the past, but after having learned of this ongoing situation with one of your suppliers, I am boycotting Driscoll's starting now. Your company needs to stand up for the workers employed by your supplier. Support these people by demanding that Sakuma Brothers provides livable wages, upholds reasonable and safe working conditions and allows employees to organize and negotiate for better working conditions. I'll be waiting for you, Driscoll's, to do the right thing in this situation. Lindsay Craig CA Gabriela Flores--- WA Rabinowitz ruth barrett ME Do the honorable thing. Live with your conscious. Susana C IL www.fairworldproject.org 217
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Heather Glenn CA Kadie Graham CO We really like raspberries in my house. We like fair labor considerably more! Jane Abernathy ME Please support fair work practices and a living wage. Marianna Rakhuba CA Mark Thompson OH CEOs get paid an outrageous amount of money. A fair system will provide an adequate amount of pay for workers to have a decent standard of living. chris gaddess NY If its not fair I'll look elsewhere --- period! Veronica Hannah MI C Herlihy NY be fair do the right thing. then we will buy again. organic, of course! Anthony Fresquez NM fair pay and rights protection with farm owners. Workers, under the banner of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (United Families for Justice) have been trying to obtain a legally binding contract that ensures a fair wage and decent working conditions. Robin Green MI Jerry Zellers CA donald dodge CA We buy your raspberries every week. Please pay your workers a fair wage, we will pay any increased cost! Denise Blake FL As a loyal Driscoll's customer (I buy your berries every. single. week.) this really dismays me. My feelings about workers receiving a fair wage far outweighs my need for berries from Driscoll's. Count me out until I've hear you have either stop purchasing from Sakuma Brothers or that Sakuma Brothers have negotiated a fair contract. I'm serious. My Driscoll berry days are sadly over until I hear a change in policy regarding Sakuma Brothers. I will NOT support any company that abuses their workers, as it is those workers that bring my berries to me. I respect them. You should too. Henry Burt WA Sarah Wigg NY Cheri VanSant AZ Pamela Goodson OR Roberta Savo PA Cheryle Clarke CO Sharareh Gharib RI Gayla Fredrick TX Barbara Catherine VA M Scott CA Yvonne Hartman NY Rachael Cole OR Shelly Seales FL Jo Ann Huffman CA Gary Phipps IL Leanne Clarkson AB Nicole kyner CA I love your berries and buy multiple packages at a time. But I will switch brands in order to support workers. Please make this change !!! ryan farrey IL David Geiger MI
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Lori Ravitz FL Treat your workers like your family, would you want your children to work in the conditions of your company??? jessica ebner PA Mike kurilich CA Raye Hodgson CT Kit Sherman CA Marcelle Carreau MA Cynthia Sell PA These are hard workers. They deserve fair pay and decent treatment. This is the way we treat people in America --- with decency. Debra Pierce NH Jeanette Regalado CA They work so hard for so little money!! They deserve descent working conditions just like everybody else!! Karen McSwain WA Mary Jo lent CT Gina M MI Karen Lang---Ferrell TX robert mackie CA candy guzman IN I am a loyal customer, finding this out I will shop other distributors. Suzanne Walter AZ teresa lee CA Joel Johnson CA Lydia shvydky MD Terri Lamb MI I am an excellent customer of Driscoll berries, but will not buy Driscoll berries again until their workers are compensated fairly. Darla Kauppila ON Gianluca viale CA Thea Howard CA Michele BuShea GA Kathleen Rogers FL Virginia Snow RI A DeMatteo NY Joanne Sorrentino TX Jennifer May MA Dianna Ellis VA Linda Lawson BC Candice Howard FL Wanda Branum AL vick raz TX Ana Degea---Coombs MD
Diane St George CA jim dale OH jim dale OH Andrew Graham NB Please do the right thing, pay what is fair and you'll build a better business. Patricia Tingley NB mary houle QC I will remember your name Driscoll's and not purchase your products. Intukant Kelley AL Sharon Magliulo MN
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Adelina Keshishian MA Brad Nahill OR Mary Gustafson CA Jane Gerbig CA I will not buy any Driscoll strawberries until their suppliers are fair to their employees. Pam Traylor AZ colleen shannon MD Cathy Morgan FL I only buy organic berries. I will boycot Driscoll Berries if they don't buy from fair trade farms. Akiba Davis ME anne potter MN I try to not buy from them anyway as their berries don't rot. .. something is wrong with that ! Will boycott always now. Megan Davidson NY Sharon Batcheller BC Pc kasberg MD Richard Kohsiek GA I won't buy Driscoll products till the problem's resolved. Florence Jobin MI Mila Valenta OR MaryEllen Seehafer MD Denee Scribner WA susan giesau WI Sean Derrington CA Sharol Garber AZ I love your raspberries, I would hate to have to look somewhere else. Tiffany Shaklee CO David Raupach PA Kendra Johnson OR Betty Malone SC Bertha Quintero AZ Stop endorsing worker exploitation and demand better treatment for these workers David Cook MN Jenny krueger IN Arieanna Kuehn IL Carey Harris CA Martha southgate IL Tamrey brock TX Suzanne Duignan NJ Cydney Jackson FL Amanda Hunt CA I actually just bought some of these raspberries, and thought how nice and wholesome the labeling looked, that's too bad they encourage such unfair working conditions, I won't be buying these anymore. Bethany Braley AZ I'm so sorry to learn about this mistreatment of workers. Driscoll Organic raspberries are my favorite treat and now I'll have to give them up!
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Natalie Helman PA Don't under appreciate the people who make your business possible. Never forget just like a captain a boss is nothing without their crew! Julie Javrotsky CA Jennifer Barretto HI paul tom NY renee van dam ot April Stephens CA Priscilla Garcia CA Douglas Propp CO This issue could influence my decision to buy Driscoll berry products, which is 2 to 3 cartons a week. Lori Wikdahl BC Jessica Ford IL christa bates CA chelsea thomas CA toni walsh CA carin vlasveld ot Josėe Schilders CA Play it fair PLEASE!! Thanx Jo DiLallo PA Julie Beauchain VT Kim Trosper FL David Middlemiss ot Christina Legree ON Melissa Buffaloe CA I buy Driscoll berries all the time... or did until now. I'm so tired of having to cut things from my diet because of political reasons but I will continue to do so until companies such as Driscoll and Sakuma Brothers start doing the right thing for people, not profits. Ashley mccormick MN ken barrientos FL Norma Uible MO Beatris Gomez IN Chantelle McPherson BC Lori Underwood TX Ella Magstadt MN Paula Putnam OH Judith Bodie IL christine johnson CA Everyone deserves a living wage! rev scott karns VA Carolina Samayoa CA Why are they prejudice to this poor people, all they want is to earn a honest decent living, to support their families & their children Cynthia Hunt PA Marianne Mathieson OR I only feed my kids Driscoll's organics but will stop immediately unless this situation is remedied. Do not become the Walmart of farming------pay people what they need, a living wage. It's not like you get lower market prices because you have an organic product, but the exact opposite. Please don't make us stand around in front of Albertson's etc. with no Driscoll signs. Teresa Moore CA Ann King MT
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Gayanah Krasnyanskiy CA I hope Driscoll's will take it seriously and press on Sakuma Brother's to fix the problem and pay the workers so they can support families. Barbara April MA Ann Riordan IL Carol Metcalf CA Mario Troiani MA maureen clancy CA We buy 5 pints of raspberries organic from you every week. Please tell Sakuma Bros to be kind to their workers. It is the right thing to do. ------Thank you! Linda Moore GA Driscoll, I love your berries but if you continue to support practices like those at Sakuma Bros? I'll be looking for other brands or buying frozen berries! yasmine nerone NC Ramuntxo Bartolomé ot Dannie Austin CA Marta Acosta CA Edith Colon TX sylvia graham MI Cathy Leece MN Sally Bouknight SC Alyssa Sahlstrom CA Crystal Wakoa FL Sanda J. ot Kathleen Feathers OH libby johnson ot Diana Boeke VA I love berries. But I have not bought Driscoll berries for over five years because of your practices. I pay more to buy from my local small farmer. I would buy from you if you respected your workers and transitioned to organic. Chris Boever SD kelli walinske MI ross walinske MI addison walinske MI logan walinske MI Carolina Walther CA Kathy McFarlane CA Catherine Griffin CT Nora dries IL Patricia Long IN B P MN Mary Cross WA I regularly purchase Driscoll berries but will now honor the Sakuma Brothers farmworkers' request and boycott Driscoll berries until OCA tells me that you are no longer selling Sakuma Brothers berries. Christine Moreno CA Angela Gardner CA Nancy Lewis MN Judith Helburn TX Lisa Farley MD Lynn Abbott WI
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Kathy Guidi CA Pay people a fair wage for the work they do! Kathryn Moore WI G Hardiman GA Bonita Rose MI Greed will get you in the end. Jamie Papandrea NY Donna Lozano TX Kim Eckrote IL Mallory Morken DC Allison Meyer MN Sera Cook MA Rachel Winograd PA I am going to continue to boycott Driscoll berries until you suspend your supply from Sakuma Brother's Berries while they negotiate a fair settlement with the workers' union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Lisa Middeke MO Dharmesh Mandalia CA Joan Lemont OR Lindsay Mahony WA aura lane CA Mary Cousineau MN Joy Schochet IL Everyone, no matter what their profession or job, deserves a good wage, decent living conditions and good treatment. Not to provide these to workers is inhumane and unconscionable. Robin Sekerak FL David Gardner CA Ronald Martin GA Brent Y Harrison WA support fair labor Addie Lucas FL Ryan Lloyd AL Catherine Pottinger WA Stop buying berries from Sakuma Brothers until the negotiate a fair contract with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Kristina Long CA Brian Fink OH debra poscharscky OR Amy Olsson NC Consuelo Valenzuela CA Terry Poplawski CA Priscilla Kramer OH Jim Altree CO renzi vb NY Janet Marchione CT Hope this works or have to cross Driscoll off my shopping list Jane Fox MT Andreas Brongkoll FL Mike Roberts ot Sally Bianco CA Julie Swensgard AZ karen teeple PA Stop buying from this farm until they take care of their employees Katarina Parker MA Anne Hutson TX Megan Stark NE www.fairworldproject.org 223
Consumers Asking Driscoll's to Insist on a Fair Contract for Farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms Staci Martineau MD Jodie Bean ME Elizabeth Sloan Freel CA I have been a long---time customer of Whole Foods and I enjoy buying the fresh organic Driscoll's berries when they arrive in the stores. Having read how your suppliers treat their workers, that will be the last time I buy anything from your company until the situation improves for the workers. I will also tell the manager at Whole Foods why I am no longer buying them. I vote with my wallet. Aileen Kane WA I live in the same county. They have gotten away with lots of bad treatment of the workers. Betty Robidas NH Catherine Poynter---Elfers FL I purchase Driscoll berries, well until now I did, won't anymore until these workers are compensated fairly and their fair requests are honored! Barry Norman FL Elizabeth Watts NY Diane Bees OK Jen S CO Maria Svechkova CT Diana McGlynn OH Anthony Breslin OH I buy lots of berries from Driscoll's. But am going to stop now based on this. I will share this with my FB friends. Anne Nordquist CA Pamela rucker CA i live in an ag area. Our workers need to make a living wage.... Janice DiCiuccio CA Breeanna Taylor CA Patricia Newell CA Candyce Hanus CO Niloufer Adil MA Susan Brown CA janice wellman OR BE FAIR OR PICK YOUR OWN BERRIES fred avery FL Jewel Shell HI Lynn Ospina FL do the right thing. Lois Klempner MI It's not all about your pocket. Helen Edwards IL Will not be buying any Dirscoll berries until this is corrected. JOANNE FETTING WI Marg Thiessen ON Ryan and Melissa Bodiam ON We will not buy until there's a change. Treat your workers with some respect. Carmen Matallana AZ Iraida alvarado VA Marcie Usselman OR jeanette Fonseca IL Be a little more humane . And treat ur employees with dignity and respect . Not good. I'm not purchasing ant more of ur products until your policies change . Steve Viau ON Jean Williams MA I will be boycotting Driscoll until I hear that Sakuma Brother's steps up to the plate and negotiates a fair contract for it's workers. www.fairworldproject.org 224
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AUDREY MATIAS NY Dimka Adrienne MI Gaye Kelly CA Do the right thing!!! Elisha Trujillo AZ joey lynn OR Susan Sheldon MA Gayle Pilat VT Will boycott your berries until you do the right thing. Joyce Dupuis ME Tara shankar MA I buy strawberries, raspberries and blackberries regularly from driscoll's but would not like to support a farm that is treating labor poorly. Bill Marsh CA Common folks, pay a living wage, take care of the workers, cut the mgmt salary to help. Kathy Keough CA Gen Bondy ON Shame on you! I will boycott your brand until you stop buying from abusers. Janet Simpson IL Vanessa Ryan CA Julianna pilafian OR Sheila Mandell FL Adam Rollins MA I will never buy your berries ever. You are on the wrong side of history and humanity. You lose permanently. I suggest you sell your business while you can get a good price for it, just do not sell it to big agro or monsanto. --- . Mary Burke PA Surprised at this from a Blue State Natasha Guel TX lenny prins OR i always buy driscoll berries!! never again!! E. Kang CA april whittier OH brenda mccants MI amparo martinez TX be fair with the worker's families cody layton CA Krista Mahoney CA April Carey CA anibal sanz PR Driscoll Berries are sold at Ft. Buchannan Grocery Store, Wallmart,Sam's, Cotsco, PuebloSupermarket and other food store trough the Island.
Scott Powers ME Jennifer knapp CA Tami Phelps CA Sheri Kennedy MO Get with human rights. No one should be treated less than another. I will boycott and product you sweep and tell everyone I know to do the same.
Clare R MT Nina A CA Disgusting behavior. I will not suport this. Dora Herrera CA Amoreena Paddock MI ashley bromberg WA Janine Davis PA Kyra psncheko NJ
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Steve barone MA Andrea Lavezzo MD Drop Sakuma Brother's if they do not negotiate a fair contract. Show your customers where you stand! Elvin Stewart NY Melissa Shanholtzer VT Elaine Cecchinelli MA Louise Savard QC Linda Claussen CO Cathy Gonsalves NJ Heidi Eisenhauer ON I buy this brand weekly. I will now stop until I hear news. Martha Ehlman WV Pam Leland MN Haylee Fox CA Jaemy Mazuelos TN Pam Fischer WI Nan Streicker CO MK Ranii PA Tara Clay PA Kathleen Bort OH Kimberly Johnson WA Virginia Greenwald CA Mary Menger CO Fred Tymeson IL Diane brown FL i will stop buying Driscolls berries until workers are paid fair wages Susan Armistead FL Laetitia Won MA Chris Jankiewicz AB Marie Chase MA Brenda Garman NY Wendi Claar ID Heather Davis WA Brandi Baldwin CO Come on, do the right thing and investigate where you are sourcing from. Be sure the product is doing things the right way from start to finish. You're better than this. :---) Patti Windeknecht TN Charles Lamb MB Salena Bateman AL Let us love one another for love is from God. He who does not love does not know God. Lori Meyer MN Amanda Hartt IL laurie swanberg CA be fair to your employees, please Yvonne Simons MN Adelle Gruett CA Do the right thing, Driscoll. There are a lot of other organic choices out there. Barbara Laxon FL catarina tomas CA Gabriele M Heidemann NJ candice ellis MA Lisa Selleck CA
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Carol s WI I passed up purchasing Driscoll's berries yesterday Linden Coleman AZ Barbara Skinner KY Michelle Anderson IN Denise Stubberfield NY I will stop buying your berries if you don't negotiate a fair contract. Stefan Knott CO DONE BUYING YOUR EXPENSIVE BERRIES UNTIL WORKERS GET PAID AND TREATED FAIRLY! YOUR BERRIES AT $5 A POP IN SOME STORES AND YOU CAN'T GET YOUR WORKERS PAID?! GREED!!!!! Maureen Murphy OR Pay workers a fair wage. I won't be buying any Driscoll berries until I see that you have changed your policies to your workers. Treat people FAIRLY! Laura Biggerstaff MD Teresa morris MA Kerry Vistisen MI Mary Beth Lynch CO Michelle Taylor MT Jannelle Hurney NH Kathryn Mosher MN Barbara Chamberlin KS Linda Evans CA Lois Henson OH too bad------I like Driscoll's but will stop buying them. berries aren't worth giving up justice. Good bye, Driscoll! Mary Filer VA Ramon Barajas CA we all have rights in this country, fair work for fair pay. In other countries you can get away with that but not in this country. The American dream allows for fair pay for all. god bless America! thank you Briana Sturgill KY Eileen Aquiningoc--- WA Schwake Anna imber KY patricia henley CA regina walther NY Edward van Aelstyn OR Sue King IN jaimee brooks PA Deirdre Coval AK Jennifer Jordan TX catherine callaghan IL Derek Main ot Amanda Nichols GA Gregory Morton WA Beverly Gardner MA michael vickner NY hey, i hope that you never find your self in the position of these workers and yes i will not be buying Driscoll products.... Debby Michaelson ID William DiMartino NJ Kirk Heim WA Lupita Medina CA Natalie Burke TX
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Elaine Fredrick MN Austin Chehrazi CA Kim Tetman OR Micah Landau NY kris brubaker UT I have been a committed Driscoll berry buyer for over 8 years, yet unless they honor the rights of works to fair labor laws by refraining from buy from Sakuma Brothers, unitl Sakum Brothers resolves their labor dispute in way that honors workers rights, I will not purchase from Driscoll.
Rolonne Ross BC We have Driscoll's strawberries at our local market in Surrey, B,C. I will not buy them now!Regards R.Ross Mary Rossi CA Joel Gold HI I buy their organic berries regularly but will boycott them now until I hear or read Driscoll has boycotted Sakuma. Rhonda Sites VA Jennifer Henderson FL Georgeanne Matranga NY Elizabeth Robinson OR As a customer who has favored Driscoll berries when purchasing in the grocery store, I must regretfully say, Ican no longer purchase them until the Sakuma farm gives its workers a proper contract Doris Adebanjo PA Rafael Stephen FL Brenda Robinson ON Equal rights for all. Les Moore BC Sherrie Day OR Treat others as you would be treated!
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