Demand corporate responsibility for Oregon dairy workers

From the UFW

For a year, workers at Oregon’s Threemile Canyon Farms have called on Sorrento Lactalis, maker of Precious and Sorrento brand cheeses, to take responsibility for deplorable conditions at this giant dairy. Sorrento Lactalis processes milk from Threemile Canyon Farms.

Sorrento has ignored the 12,000 signatures gathered online and additional thousands of emails demanding it does the right thing by denouncing sexual discrimination at the dairy and taking action to ensure these workers are represented by the United Farm Workers, the workers' union.

Sorrento Lactalis is owned by the French multi-national Groupe Lactalis. In France, small dairy farmers have been protesting Groupe Lactalis' policy of continuously lowering prices it pays for milk to the point that dairy farmers are not even receiving the cost of production.

On Sept. 7, the UFW will join these small dairy farmers in France in an international action to call attention to this multi-national company's indifference to the plight of farm workers at Threemile Canyon Farms as well as the increasingly desperate circumstances of small French dairy farmers.

We have the power to make Groupe Lactalis be a responsible corperate citizan for both Threemile Canyon farm workers and French dairy farmers. Join us in demanding stores that sell Groupe Lactalis' products hold them accountable for their actions.

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