Hundreds Rally at Reynolds After Audit Finds Serious Abuses on Reynolds Farms

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FLOC members and allies took over Winston Salem streets for the eighth time at Reynolds American’s annual shareholders meeting, calling on the company to guarantee freedom of association throughout their supply chain and ensure farmworkers have a safe grievance procedure to voice and remedy complaints. This year, FLOC’s focus was on a recent report of child labor and other serious violations on Reynolds contract farms.

PRESS RELEASE: HUNDREDS TO PROTEST AT REYNOLDS AMERICAN SHAREHOLDERS MEETING AFTER AUDIT EXPOSES CHILD LABOR, HAZARDOUS WORKING CONDITIONS, OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES ON CONTRACT FARMS

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2016 CONTACT: Briana Kemp; bkemp.sc@gmail.com; 763-229-5970 HUNDREDS TO PROTEST AT REYNOLDS AMERICAN SHAREHOLDERS MEETING AFTER AUDIT EXPOSES CHILD LABOR, HAZARDOUS WORKING CONDITIONS, OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES ON CONTRACT FARMS Winston Salem, NC- Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI) released its 2015 farm audit report yesterday, which evaluates contract farms on compliance with …

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Action Alert! Seven farmworkers blacklisted for speaking out: tell Senator Jackson and tobacco companies we won’t stand for retaliation against farmworkers

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Seven farmworkers at State Senator Brent Jackson’s family farm in Autryville, NC have been blacklisted after filing a law suit against Jackson for unpaid wages and an unfair termination. Read more and send a letter in support of these workers!

REMEMBER THE FARMWORKERS AND OTHERS WHO DIED WHILE WORKING FOR A BETTER LIFE

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By Sintia Castillo, farmworker and member organizer, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) I am the daughter of single farmworker mother. I began working in the fields when I was 8, selling food with my mom on the weekends and summers. When I turned 13, I started to work with my friends from middle school, picking …

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FLOC TRAVELS FROM US TO UK FOR 5TH TIME DENOUNCING BAT INACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

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For the past five years, President Velasquez has attended the British American Tobacco (BAT) Annual General Meeting along with US and UK allies. This year a group will once again attend the meeting to press BAT do more to end human rights abuses in the tobacco fields in the American South. Read more and see the full statement from FLOC.