Mi Pueblo: Consumer Boycott

Mi Pueblo Food Center Dept: But with growth and success have come scrutiny from federal immigration authorities and clashes with a union that wants to represent Mi Pueblo's 3,200 workers and is leading a consumer boycott, according to Montreal Gazette. The company is under pressure from an ongoing immigration audit and its decision to use a controversial federal program that screens the eligibility of new employees to work in the United States and fRESNO, Calif. - Two decades ago, Mi Pueblo Food Center began modestly as a small butcher shop run by an illegal immigrant. Now, the supermarket that caters to the Latino immigrant community has grown into a popular chain of 21 stores in California. The predicament is thorny for a family-owned firm that relies almost exclusively on Latino immigrants for its workforce and its customer base. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.