Who picked my tea?
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- Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Once again, I need to ask for your help to support food workers in two different countries.
First, tea workers in India.
Many popular blends include tea from Assam in India, where the people who picked it - most of them women - are paid poverty wages and live in appalling conditions. The 'Big 6' British tea brands - PG Tips, Twinings, Typhoo, Yorkshire Tea, Tetley and Clipper - are well aware about this but aren't doing enough to challenge it. We won't let them get away with this anymore. Please add your voice by asking the big brands: 'Who picked my tea?'
Send a message to the big tea brands
Second, corn mill workers in Turkey
Fourteen union activists have been continually protesting after being unfairly dismissed from their jobs on 17 April 2018 while organizing a union at Cargill-Turkey's corn-milling facility in Bursa-Orhangazi. This is not the first time Cargill management in Turkey has fired workers for attempting to exercise their rights. In 2015, a court ruled that workers were unfairly dismissed for trying to organize a union at the same plant. Turkey's legal system, however, offers an escape route: as an alternative to reinstating workers who are sacked for forming or joining a union, companies can pay compensation. Cargill opted to pay for its human rights violations rather than reinstate the victimized workers. Cargill has been repeatedly informed of these blatant rights violations by the IUF and its affiliates with Cargill membership. The company, however, has failed to take any meaningful action to remedy the abuses.
Send a message to Cargill
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Eric Lee
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