Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s home district includes San Francisco. StarKist Tuna’s headquarters are in San Francisco , Pelosi’s home district. StarKist is owned by Del Monte Foods. StarKist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. She said this was done at the behest of the local democrat representative, who not surprisingly has been heavily funded by Starkist. Rumor has it that Pelosi and husband hold a large amount of Starkist stock, but this is difficult to prove and records of it have not yet been found.