Bumble Bee asks court to dismiss lawsuit alleging forced labor in tuna supply chain

Bumble Bee asks court to dismiss lawsuit alleging forced labor in tuna supply chain

U.S. canned tuna producer Bumble Bee Foods has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it knowingly benefited from its suppliers’ use of forced labor by Indonesian workers. Earlier this year, four Indonesian men filed a complaint in federal court in San Diego, California, against Bumble Bee, alleging the company was aware of and profited from labor abuses and forced labor that they and other migrant sea workers endured aboard fishing ve…