Supervisors of Giumarra Vineyards in California hurl racist insults at indigenous farm workers from Mexico:
"Stupid Indians" .... "Indians are of no use" ..."Indians don’t understand anything or how to do anything"
Workers reported these statements as evidence of the harassment and discrimination based on "indigenous status" for a lawsuit involving the sexual harassment of a 17-year old girl.
The farm workers are organizing to get a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract so they can obtain some protection from the continual abuse and violation of their rights by Giumarra, but a UFW rep told me it will be some time before it is unionized.
We can help now with an e-mail letter campaign to ask Kroger (which buys the produce) to enforce its company rules that vendors can not discriminate against workers and "must operate in a manner that respects the rights of people."
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