Teamsters Strike Basic Vegetable Products - Brief Article

Progressive, The, Dec, 1999

King City, California

Lupe Vasquez, who has worked at Basic Vegetable Products for thirty-one years, has been on strike against the company since July 7. She and other members of Teamsters Local 890 opposed the garlic and onion dehydrating company when it imposed a wage freeze, a two-tier wage system, a change in the pension plan, and an increase in the co-pay for health insurance.

For more information, contact BVP Strikers, c/o Teamsters Local 890, 207 North Sanborn Rd., Salinas, CA 93905, or call (831) 424-5743, or visit the local's web site at www.teamsters890.org/strike.>

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