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.