Tag: Fruit packers strike

Fruit packers celebrate gains in strike in Yakima Valley

Vol. 84/No. 25 - June 29, 2020

SEATTLE — Workers rallied outside fruit processor Columbia Reach Pack in Yakima, Washington, June 11 to celebrate their strike victory. “The most important thing we won is that the company recognized and signed an agreement with the committee” elected by…

Yakima fruit packers fight for wages, hours, safety

Vol. 84/No. 23 - June 15, 2020

YAKIMA, Wash. — Fruit packing plant workers continue their weekslong strikes for higher wages and safer working conditions at Columbia Reach Pack here and at Matson Fruit in Selah, Washington. Strikers at Matson returned to work after the bosses said…