Calls for Change: Demonstrators march to Reynolds American, protesting farmworkers' conditions
(Winston-Salem Journal) - Summer days for Jesus Jimenez started about 5 a.m., when he went into a field near Thomasville to pick tobacco. There were times when he felt sick from the nicotine that he absorbed from the dew-covered plants.
Nicotine sickness sent four fellow tobacco workers in Sanford to the hospital during the summer, Jiminez said through an interpreter.
Jiminez was one of about 200 union representatives, farm workers and religious leaders who marched from Lloyd Presbyterian Church to the Reynolds American headquarters building downtown yesterday calling for better conditions for farmworkers.
Nicotine sickness sent four fellow tobacco workers in Sanford to the hospital during the summer, Jiminez said through an interpreter.
Jiminez was one of about 200 union representatives, farm workers and religious leaders who marched from Lloyd Presbyterian Church to the Reynolds American headquarters building downtown yesterday calling for better conditions for farmworkers.
posted by BP News Bureau | 12:49 PM
1 Comments:
Jimenez needs to take this up with the farmers. Reynolds American simply buys tobacco from them, it doesn't create the conditions under which the work is done.
Then again, since Reynolds' lawyers are well known for folding like a cheap suit any time someone whispers boo in their general direction, maybe Jimenez does have the right target.
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