Safeway, the nation’s second-largest retail food chain, has signed an agreement with United Farm Workers supporting human rights for 20,000 California berry pickers. They join the 27 retail food companies covering 4,630 stores in 41 states and parts of Canada that currently support strawberry workers.
By signing the UFW agreement, Safeway is endorsing the rights of the workers to unionize, to bargain without discrimination, and to demand the enforcement of field and water sanitation laws. This is the first time in over 30 years that UFW and Safeway have worked together on issues concerning agricultural workers.
