Amy's Kitchen workers boycott

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2. Worker safety -

Vegetarian dinners, burritos, and bowls from Amy's Kitchen have been staples of plant-based freezers for decades. Recently, a group of Amy’s employees has come forward with allegations of lapses in workplace safety and low wages at the facilities that produce those packaged foods - and now some vegan organizations are calling on supporters to join a boycott of the brand.

In January, workers from the company’s Santa Rosa, California plant spoke with NBC News, claiming that line speeds in the factories increased in an attempt to meet pandemic demand. Those heightened speeds, they say, were linked to employees being injured on the job. Some of the workers say they were asked to work without accommodations for their injuries and have had difficulty affording expensive health insurance.

"There are a lot of days that I think that I'm good for nothing, that my life will never be the same and that I'll never live without pain again," Ines De La Cruz, a former employee at Amy's, told NBC News.


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