APRIL
2001












 

Turn Your Back on These Products

UAW members can strike a blow for social justice by refusing to buy pickles and relishes processed by Mt. Olive--an anti-union company under official boycott sanction by the AFL-CIO.

More than 2,000 migrant and seasonal workers who pick cucumbers that become Mt. Olive pickles and relish signed union cards during an organizing drive in North Carolina by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee.

But Mt. Olive refuses to recognize FLOC and negotiate a contract to help these workers in their efforts to secure decent pay, benefits, working conditions, and basic respect.

That’s why pickles and relishes sold by Mt. Olive, the nation’s second-largest pickle packer, are now on the AFL-CIO boycott list. Behind every boycott is a similar story.

Here is a current list of products and services on the AFL-CIO “Do Not Buy” list.

Building Materials
DoItYourself brand home
wire by Southwire Co.
CF&I and Oregon Steel
Mills products

Entertainment
Troika Entertainment’s
national tour of “Sound
of Music”

Food
Mt. Olive pickles & relishes
Diamond-brand walnuts
Dehydrated foods by
Basic Vegetable Products/
Basic American Foods Farmland-brand milk

Furniture
Canbrough Oak
Collection, Downing
Street Collection,
Cherry Creek Collection,
Hood, and Straits by
Straits Furniture

Hotels
Best Western Grosvenor
Resort in Lake Buena
Vista, Florida
Sheraton Four Points in
Waterbury, Conn.
Holiday Inn, Sunspree in
Kapaa, Hawaii
New Otani in
Los Angeles, Calif.

Television
BET cable television

Tobacco
R.J. Reynolds cigarettes
including Camel, Salem,
Winston and others

Tools
Brown & Sharp Mfg. tools
JET-brand metal and
woodworking tools

You can also check the AFL-CIO's Union Label web site for the latest information on boycotts.

 


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