Amy's Kitchen workers speak up about workplace injuries, mistreatment, and union busting
b'Few frozen food brands are as well known in the United States as Amy\\u2019s Kitchen, a privately owned, California-based company that makes organic, vegetarian meals that can be found in most frozen-food aisles. Amy\\u2019s Kitchen has also long been reputed for, and markets itself as, a socially conscientious manufacturer and employer.
Some workers at Amy\\u2019s Kitchen, however, tell a different story. As Joshua Bote recently reported for SFGate, \\u201cWorkers at the Amy\\u2019s Kitchen factory in Santa Rosa have filed a complaint with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, with allegations that have put the beloved Bay Area food brand\\u2019s feel-good credo to \\u2018share in the love\\u2019 into question. The Cal/OSHA complaint, filed Jan. 20, follows an NBC News investigation in which Amy\\u2019s workers at the Santa Rosa plant allege unrelenting managers, poor working conditions and demanding production mandates.\\u201d
In this interview, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Carmen Angiano and MariCruz Meza, two workers at the Santa Rosa plant, about working conditions at the plant and how management has responded to workers\\u2019 attempt to organize. \\ufeffCarmen Angiano is an 18-year Amy\'s Kitchen worker who was injured at work; she has family members working at the same plant and is tired of being mistreated and of lies coming from the company. MariCruz Meza has worked at Amy\'s Kitchen for eight years. She has endured several incidents when the company health insurance wouldn\\u2019t pay her family\'s medical bills and has even been sent collections.
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/amys-kitchen-workers-speak-up-about-workplace-injuries-mistreatment-and-union-busting
Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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