Girl Scout urges Kellogg's to treat cookie makers better

Last month, employees at a Louisville, Kentucky factory that produces millions of Girl Scout cookies complained that they were being forced to work excessive hours.

Those complaints were heard - by an 8-year-old Girl Scout in upstate New York named Lily DeRosia. As the Democrat and Chronicle reports, DeRosia asked her Girl Scout troop to sign a petition that was later mailed to Kellogg's CEO John Bryant. Along with the petition was a letter DeRosia penned urging the company to respond to the cookie makers' grievance.

"We believe that all people should be treated fairly. We want to sell cookies made by a company that cares about their workers," she wrote on behalf of herself the members of Girl Scout Troop 60509. "You should change this. It would make the world a better world to live in."

A Kellogg's spokeswoman said in an email to the Louisville Courier-Journal that the company had not received the letter but that "we do appreciate their concerns about our workforce." The company told the newspaper that it was is recruiting workers to cover all the shifts at the factory.

Lily's mother told the Democrat and Chronicle that she's not surprised by her daughter's missive.

"She's very justice minded," Melissa DeRosia said. "She read that article and, from the perspective that it was written, felt that (the working conditions) weren't fair."