About 20 protesters turned out on Freedom Street and in front of Mi Pueblo in Watsonville, a grocery store that sells Driscoll's products, which is a leading berry supplier. "To end the child slavery as well as the sexual exploitation slavery," said Tina Lemoine, with the Sacramento Brown Berets... 

On its website Driscoll’s says it has zero tolerance for practices that include child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, among other things. Protesters also claim Driscoll's is paying workers unfair wages...

Protesters also said they are speaking out against unsanitary working conditions. "Farm workers are living inside of shacks with no running water, no toiletry, no nothing like that," said Michael Garcia with the Watsonville Brown Berets.

Driscoll’s CEO Kevin Murphy [said]... "...protest efforts led by Ms. Gracida Martinez continues to unfairly target Driscoll’s with secondary boycotts, dissemination of misinformation and false accusations, including those regarding the heavily regulated use of pesticides, child labor and abuse of workers. We take our responsibility seriously when it comes to how our independent growers treat their farm workers... 

Driscoll’s has and will continue to demonstrate leadership in the agriculture industry by facilitating initiatives and standards which support socially responsible business practices, including worker welfare. Our worker welfare standards, which place a premium on worker safety and feature a zero tolerance policy towards the use of child labor and the abuse of workers, are built upon those introduced by global labor organizations and can be found at www.Driscolls.com/workerwelfare..."