Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On the Worker Rights Consortium Report on Palermo’s Pizza

by Gary Kopycinski on February 7, 2013

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2013. Yesterday, the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent labor rights watchdog organization issued a report affirming that Palermo Villa, Inc., the fourth largest frozen pizza manufacturer in the U.S. and a producer of University of Wisconsin licensed pizza, violated the University of Wisconsin’s labor standards code.