Our offices are always hopping and especially so now. Here is what is going on! 1. Our organizers drive all over North Carolina and beyond and need a place to stay. Our North Carolina organizers are wondering if those in the Triangle area would allow them to sleep on a couch or in spare room …
July 3-5 2019 Presidente Velasquez and Vice Presidente Justin Flores are in Kampala Uganda. Presidente is a co-chair of a meeting with the International Labor Organization. FLOC is joining other farm workers and unions and organizations to fight global exploitation in the tobacco sector. Here are a few snippets lifted out of Presidente’s remarks earlier …
FLOC is featured in this video along with our other friends throughout the world. Thank you to @rosalux_global and @IUFglobal for putting this important footage together. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung “Although farm workers provide a large portion of all food produced globally, they themselves earn extremely low wages, oftentimes go hungry, and suffer from poor working and living …
‘Be very careful’: the dangers for Mexicans working legally on US farms Exploitation in focusUS news For Mexican farmworkers, seasonal employment in the US is an opportunity to earn more – but those who make the journey can be easily exploited by recruitersExploitation in focus is supported by Read the rest by clicking the link …
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Where in the world is FLOC and what are we doing? A few snap shots of a recent week – this is not an exhaustive list but is a great sample of one of our weeks. 1. Our VP Justin Flores was in Berlin Germany meeting with other union leaders and members from all over …
Our organizer Jackkie writes, “Our organizers in North Carolina welcomed 6 Virginia Tech students to visit a labor camp and to interact with members who come from Mexico for 7-8 months to harvest our crops-leaving behind loved ones & bringing hopes and dreams to keep working our fields while injustices go on in their daily …
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When members and other migrant workers arrive on buses from Mexico to plant and harvest our tobacco and much of our food supply, we are there! Our organizers explain about labor rights and other human rights that each worker possesses. FLOC has fought to secure many of these rights and continues to ensure that our …
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Recently, Presidente Velazquez, VP Flores, and staff members Leticia and Meliton met in Mexico City with our attorney there to tackle human rights abuses at the border- abuses faced by our members and other migrant workers.
Recently, our Vice President Justin Flores was interviewed by the Raleigh’s The News & Observer newspaper about Trump’s immigration crackdown. Here is a snippet of Vice President Flores’s comments: “Flores said the root of the farm worker problem is a failure to support the role of foreign seasonal laborers. “The refusal to admit that the …