CHIPOCRISY TOUR @ CHIPOTLE HEADQUARTER'S DOOR STEP

"Chipocrisy Tour" camps at Chipotle's doorstep in Denver!... Click here to see the pictures and report from Days 5 and 6 of the Tour -- as the Tour crew holds a 30-hour vigil outside Chipotle's corporate headquarers -- as well as all the reports from Denver, Austin, and Wichita...

Here's a taste of the update from the 30-hour vigil:

"The delegation spoke with Mr. Spong (Chipotle's VP for Loss Prevention) for a few minutes before inviting him to take a look at some of the more than 85,000 signatures from consumers across the country to the CIW's National Petition to End Sweatshops and Slavery in the Fields (including over 4,000 signatures from members of the farmworker community in Immokalee - shown stretched across the length of Chipotle's headquarters in the photo, above right).

Mr. Spong's response to the petitions? To tell encampment members that Chipotle executives had "made a decision" about how best to address the abuses faced by farmworkers in its tomato supply chain - demonstrating once again that the company still doesn't get it.

Chipotle, as it has shown time and again over the past several years, can't possibly know what's best for workers in Florida's fields. The company doesn't have a clue about the conditions workers face there every day, and they never will as long as they rely on the farm owners for information (or try to investigate conditions themselves, as farm supervisors are well practiced at the art of intimidation). Until they finally decide to work in true partnership with the people who know the reality of those abuses best -- the workers themselves -- Chipotle's efforts to end labor abuses where their tomatoes are picked will remain, at best, a public relations answer to a human rights crisis."



Note this is a re-print from the www.ciw-online.org, please visit the site for more exciting detailed reports of this struggle.