“No company should limit who you can talk to. Those days have ended. Workers are no one’s property, they are human beings. The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office has a decision to make: will they be complicit in harassing and prohibiting workers from defending their rights or will they defend and protect the people?”
Join world-renowned author and poet, Sandra Cisneros, at NC State University on August 2nd for a public reading followed by a lively discussion on the experience of working class immigrants in the US today. This event is FREE and open to the public. Donations will be accepted to support farm workers and their union, FLOC.
Until Reynolds signs an agreement guaranteeing farmworkers freedom of association and the right to collectively negotiate for safe and humane working and living conditions and for a fair return on their work, join us in boycotting the VUSE e-cigarette brand!
Members of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), which represents thousands of seasonal farm workers, have gone to court over a state law that stripped 100,000 people working on North Carolina farms of their constitutional rights.
Legislators should be ashamed of themselves for this sneak attack on some of our state’s most vulnerable working people.
Triangle Friends of Farmworkers is sponsoring a benefit dinner on Saturday, October 29 in Durham to raise money for farmworker organizing in North Carolina. A menu of homemade Mexican food and live music by Sue Gilbertson, Charlie Thompson, & Friends will accompany updates from farmworker union members, leadership, and youth organizers.
Senator Jackson remains silent on charges he stole thousands of dollars in wages and blacklisted farmworkers who complained of abuses.
Join us Thursday, May 26th at 10:00 AM outside the legislative building in Raleigh to help us hand deliver nearly 10,000 petition signatures and a message to state Senator Brent Jackson to end the abuse, retaliation against, and blacklisting of farmworkers on his family farm.
Indy Week reports that the powerful, 3-term North Carolina state senator Brent Jackson, his son, and his farm will have some explaining to do before a federal court.
Join Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO members and allies in Winston-Salem May 5th at Reynolds American’s annual shareholders meeting to call on the company to sign an agreement with FLOC guaranteeing freedom of association to all farmworkers in their supply chain!
Join us on May 7th as we march and demonstrate for justice in NC tobacco fields outside the Reynolds American Headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC!
This will be the third year in a row since farm laborers and their supporters escalated their campaign to get Reynolds American to end the abuses in its tobacco supply chain by taking the matter up with the company that sells more Reynolds tobacco products than any other.
On May 8th, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) joined forces with faith leaders, fast food workers, and hundreds of community supporters in Winston-Salem to fight for living wages and union rights for farm workers at Reynolds American.
The report documents serious health problems among the children working in the fields, dangerous working conditions, long hours and low pay. Too bad for them state Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry has refused to do anything about it.
Supporters of tobacco farm laborers in North Carolina will march May 8th in Winston-Salem to demand Reynolds American take responsibility for human rights abuses in its supply chain.
