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On Monday, close to 200 people gathered in front of Darigold’s headquarters in Seattle. Labor leaders, including the Secretary-Treasurer of the WA State Labor Federation and Michael Beranbaum of the Joint Council of Teamsters, who represents Darigold employees at their processing plants, joined the call for justice for Ruby Ridge workers.

That’s right, Darigold processing plant workers have a union; the workers who milk the cows don’t.

These voices joined those of national religious leaders who called on Darigold in August to take action when they marched to the company’s Portland, OR location.

Yet Darigold remains silent. Instead of coming out to talk, they greeted folks with security guards.

Workers are disappointed with Darigold. As former Ruby Ridge employee Jose Zamora said: One gets there with the hope that they will speak to us and what we see is a bunch of security guards all over the place like if we were to do harm to them. They treat us like criminals.