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UFW Calls for Krug / Mondavi Wine Boycott

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

As reported in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, the United Farm Workers have called for a boycott of Krug / Mondavi wines:

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Krug-Mondavi workers, facing job losses, to call for national boycott

Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Workers at the Krug-Mondavi Winery, one of the first Napa Valley vineyards to unionize, plan to call today for a nationwide boycott of the company’s wines, under the Charles Krug and C.K. Mondavi labels, officials with the United Farm Workers said Wednesday.

The 36 workers, whose contract expired at the end of 2005, face the loss of their jobs on July 1 when the company plans to contract out its farming operations to a land manager.

The UFW contends that the subcontracting move is illegal and has filed unfair labor practice charges with the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board.


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