Dairy Workers Reach Agreement With Ben & Jerry’s On Fair Wages, Working Conditions (October 3, 2017)
By: Kathleen Masterson, Vermont Public Radio
Ben & Jerry’s and Vermont dairy farmworkers have come to an agreement on a program they say will ensure “just and dignified working conditions” on the Vermont farms that supply milk for the ice cream company.
Representatives from the Vermont farmworker advocacy group Migrant Justice and Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim came together Tuesday in front of Ben & Jerry’s Burlington ice cream shop to sign the agreement.
“This is the first expansion that we’ve seen from the model of worker-driven social responsibly that was pioneered by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in the Florida tomato fields,” says Enrique Balcazar of Migrant Justice. “It is a great victory and an honor for us dairy workers to expand that model to the dairy industry of Vermont.”