U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Processors Flock to Where the Huelgas Aren't
Back in the not-so-distant days when Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, the University of California, the Bank of America, and the Democratic Party successfully fought all attempts to organize their...
...a subsidiary of the San Francisco-based Di Giorgio Corp...
...machine-packed olives," while in Mexico the Heinz Co...
...Back in the not-so-distant days when Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, the University of California, the Bank of America, and the Democratic Party successfully fought all attempts to organize their field help to fight for decent wages and working conditions (see Ranar s Sept...
...border...
...fruit and vegetable processing giants could make ig profits by doing all the cultivation and processing work in the United States and then exporting the finished product...
...Public Law 78) was not renewed in 1965...
...NMo, however, victories of the farm labor movement in the United States are causing the Jolly Green Giants of Agribusiness to set up their operations in economically growing (that is, poor -ed...
...The "Bracero Program allowed food processors to bring low-paid Mexican help across the border, thus suppressing the wages and crippling the unionizing efforts of U.S...
...With their new internationalist approach Libby, et al are now able to exploit workers an the spot, without bringing them over the U.S...
...of Pittsburgh has begun a crash program to raise and market pineapples...
...workerr strikes and boycotts in the U.S...
...workers...
...To the Phillipines, to Malaya, and to Taiwan, there the cliate is lush and political insurgency has been suppressed, the Libby pineapple people are moving in order to preserve their fat profit margins...
...i.e., products cultivated and processed within the U.S...
...thich felt the pinch of far...
...countries" (Iall Street Journal "Exports of U.S...
...In Franoc's sunny Spain Libby has also noved to eploit "inexpensive Spanish labor to produce hand-packed Spanish green olives that are marketed here in competition with less-desirable US...
...NThewsletter, April '67 - 2 the hillipines and elseJwhere against their brothers in the United States ,;ho are leiaring ho to defend themselves in the political and economic arena...
...There is every reason to believe that the internationalist trernd in gribusiness union-busting will continue...
...In short, the corporate tyrants of field and factory are going abroad to retrieve the advantages they lost when the Bracero Program" (under U.S...
...ill flow back across the borders and compete fiercely rwith domestic products...
...Cr, as The Jall Street journal puts it "lleoerts believe American-owned plants in foreign countries ray oerate so efiicientll before long that foods processed outside the U.S...
...They can pit the non-unionized workers of Spain, Mexico and (continued on next page) Toil 1, No, 3 pril 1967tAGL...
...1965 ) U.S...
...The procurement director of SeW Fine Foods, Inc...
...Fruits, Vegetables Shrink as Food Processors Set Up Plants Abroad," nay 1, 167...
...recently said, "-e're looking at all corners of the globe at the moment...
Vol. 1 • April 1967 • No. 3
