Press Release: Farmworkers Launch Largest Organizing Campaign Since Chavez

For Immediate Release Contact: Justin Flores, FLOC, (704) 577- 3480 Farmworkers Launch Largest Organizing Campaign Since Chavez Effort will confront Reynolds American’s failure to guarantee basic labor rights DUDLEY, NC – the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) announced a multinational campaign to give a voice and much needed rights to thousands of tobacco farmworkers in …

FLOC and allies press BAT to do more to end human rights abuses

April 30, 2014–Today, at British American Tobacco’s annual shareholders meeting, Chairman Burrows spent a considerable amount of time during his remarks addressing the issue of labor rights in Reynolds’ supply chain. After several years of pressure from FLOC and its international allies, BAT clearly feels that this is an issue the company must address. As Reynolds American’s largest …

Join us on May Day in Raleigh!

120 years after the Haymarket Massacre, we continue to struggle for the guaranteed right to organize without fear of retaliation and for the eradication of child labor, especially in the North Carolina tobacco supply chain.

United for licenses and safer roads

Saturday, March 22, 2014–More than 200 people marched in downtown Raleigh, NC to demand driver licenses for all North Carolinians and safer roads in NC. Waving signs that read “United for licenses and safer roads,” and “Drivers licenses now” undocumented immigrants and allies marched together to demand that Governor Pat McCrory and the NC Legislature …