Send a letter to Reynolds American, Inc. to let the company know that you are concerned about the conditions in NC tobacco fields, and that they should sign an agreement with FLOC guaranteeing the right to freedom of association to farmworkers who harvest the company’s tobacco! Farmworkers deserve safe and fair working and living conditions …
FLOC members hailing from ten Mexican states- many of them journeying ten hours or more to attend- converged in Monterrey March 15 and 16th for the 6th Annual FLOC Leadership Training.
More than 25 concerned customers attended Kangaroo’s shareholders meeting to ask company leaders why they hadn’t responded to their concerns regarding human rights violations in Southern tobacco fields.
Last year was jam packed with membership meetings, marches and rallies, contract administration and building solidarity in the labor movement, topped off with a very successful Constitutional Convention! Check out our 2013 newsletter to see more of the exciting things FLOC members and staff have been working on.
“Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.” James 5:4 Join us on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:30pm at West Raleigh Presbyterian Church 27 Horne St. Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 Raleigh, …
Rosalinda experienced for the first time this summer what working under a union contract means. A single mother of three teenagers ages 14, 17 and 18, Rosalinda and her kids had worked for the previous 9 years for a grower in NW Ohio without a collective bargaining agreement. The treatment was OK, she says, although …
It is no secret that many Mexican families migrate and work in the fields of the United Sates to sustain themselves. The Cabrera family is no exception. Albino Cruz Bueno first came to work in the fields of North Carolina in 2004. A few years after that his son, Abel Cruz Cabrera, followed in his …
Beginning in 2012, Triangle Friends of Farmwokers, a group founded to support farmworker organizing campaigns, has been leading the charge on organizing monthly visits at Kangaroo stores in and around Raleigh, North Carolina. Each month the group organizes local community members to deliver a letter to the store manager, and briefly picket outside of the …
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In December 2011, a group of North Carolina organizations led by the Beloved Community Center (BCC) wrote Kangaroo Chairman of the Board Ed Holman asking for a meeting to discuss how the NC based chain can help end human rights abuses in the tobacco fields of its home state. FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez also reached …
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On December 13, 2013, Members of the British Parliament received an unusual briefing, when FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez met with Members at the Westminster to report on the serious human rights abuses occurring in tobacco fields throughout the South. The meeting was a collaborative effort of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), American Federation of Labor and …
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