Events and Highlights Archive – Page 5 – Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO

FLOC Members and youth deliver 20,000 signatures to Reynolds American Inc.

by FLOCEvents and Highlights Archive, Reynolds Campaign September 8, 2015June 15, 2016No Comments

FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez led a group of FLOC members, FLOC Homies Union members, and other activists in a march to Reynolds American Inc. headquarters in Washington D.C to deliver a petition with 20,000 signatures. The petition calls on Reynolds American to end human rights violations by signing an agreement that guarantees the farmworkers in …

FLOC Receives Labor Rights Defenders Award from ILRF

by FLOCEvents and Highlights Archive, Front Page Slides June 12, 2015September 14, 2015No Comments

On June 3, FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez and FLOC received the Labor Rights Defenders Award for U.S. Grassroots Organizing.

FLOC Presents Alternative Shareholders Report at BAT Annual Meeting, Outlining Labor Abuses in North Carolina

by FLOCEvents and Highlights Archive, Reynolds Campaign April 29, 2015June 15, 2016No Comments

U.S. tobacco farmworkers return to BAT AGM for fourth year.

US Tobacco Farm Workers Return for the Fourth Year to BAT AGM

by FLOCEvents and Highlights Archive, Reynolds Campaign April 28, 2015September 14, 2015No Comments

LONDON, UK- Baldemar Velasquez, the President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a union that represents tobacco farm workers in North Carolina and the American South, told stockholders at the British American Tobacco (BAT) Annual General Meeting (AGM), held today at the Milton Court Concert Hall, Guild Hall School of Music and Drama, to stop …

Union Members Intensify Commitment to Fight for Union Recognition in Southern Tobacco Fields

by FLOCArchive, Cross Border Organizing, Events and Highlights Archive, Mexico Organizing March 20, 2015June 15, 2016No Comments

On March 14th and 15th, close to 50 rank-and-file union leaders convened in Monterrey, Mexico for the 7th National Congress for H2A Guest Workers.

Songs For Justice

by FLOCEvents and Highlights Archive December 19, 2014September 14, 2015No Comments

On December 12th, FLOC was honored to be able to recognize Sesario and Lucy Duran, for their lifetime of service to FLOC and farm workers throughout North Carolina and Ohio, at the Songs for Justice Benefit Concert. The evening was a complete success as FLOC was able to meet its fundraising goal. All the money …

Songs For Justice Benefit Concert

by FLOCEvents and Highlights Archive November 5, 2014April 2, 2015No Comments

FLOC’s annual benefit concert will be held on December 12th at Forrester’s on the River in Toledo, OH. This year FLOC president, Baldemar Velasquez, will be joined by the Aguila Negra Band as they play a series of movement songs and Mexican folk music. All proceeds from the evening will go towards FLOC’s ongoing fight …

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