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Keep Mott's Worker Salaries in Place!
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    1. Dr. Pepper Snapple, CEO (+ 2 others)
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      • Dr. Pepper Snapple, CEO (Larry D. Young)
      • Dr. Pepper Snapple, Manager of Corp. Affairs (Chris Barnes)
      • Dr. Pepper Snapple, Senior Vice-President Manufacturing (Lain Hancock)
  2. Created By
    Jean Stevens
    NY, NY
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More than 300 workers continue to strike this week at a 100-year-old Mott's plant near Rochester, N.Y. to protest unnecessary salary and benefit cuts demanded by Mott's and parent company Dr Pepper Snapple. The companies claim that these food workers are simply paid too much compared to workers at other plants nationwide and need to level the playing field.

Not only does such reasoning sound particularly unjust at a time of economic hardship, but it offers another sad example of how far we've yet to go in creating a sustainable food system. Food companies continue to place profit over people and undervalue their workers.

We must demand better. Sign this petition below calling on Larry D. Young, the CEO of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, to agree to Mott's workers' demands to keep wages and benefits in place.

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Keep Mott's Workers Pay And Benefits in Place

Greetings,

In the new movement toward a sustainable, just food system, workers earn fair pay, supportive benefits, and are treated as priorities. As proven by your efforts to lower pay and cut benefits of striking Mott's workers, you are not part of that movement. Your argument that these cuts are necessary to make the factory more competitive prove only that you value profit over your own people working hard for you.

As a concerned consumer who values sustainable food, I join numerous politicians and unions and call on you to give up your efforts to renegotiate workers' contracts. Please do not cut their well-deserved pay and benefits.

[Your name]

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