Vote PUBLIX for Scrooge of the Year!

Dear Friends,

Each year, Jobs with Justice gives an "award" to the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year. I urge you to please vote now for PUBLIX SUPERMARKETS in the tenth annual online contest to determine the national figure who does the most harm to working families. Visit the link below to vote and read about why Publix is so deserving of the title "Scrooge of the Year ".

http://www.jwj.org/scrooge/

Sincerely,

Emiko Soltis


Why vote for Publix?

Publix Supermarkets is the 9th largest privately-held corporation in the US with 2008 revenues of over $24 billion. Since 2007, Publix has resisted calls to be a part of the solution to the human rights crisis in Florida's fields.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their allies are calling on Publix to pay just one penny more per pound for its tomatoes to directly improve worker's wages, and to work with the CIW to implement a code of conduct to protect farmworkers' basic human rights. Other corporations including Taco Bell, McDonald's, Subway, and Publix competitor Whole Foods have already agreed to these terms.

Publix, on the other hand, continues to purchase tomatoes from two of the growers tainted by last year's modern-day slavery prosecution, sends out videographers to tape farmworkers and their families at peaceful pickets, and refuses to support the growing partnership among farmworkers, Florida tomato growers, and retail food giants aimed at ending decades of farm labor abuse in Florida. For more, read Publix vs. Publix, a must-read analysis on the two faces of Publix.