June 29, 2017
Statement on Anti-Union Amendment to Farm Bill (S615)
Legislators should be ashamed of themselves for this sneak attack on some of our state’s most vulnerable working people.
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Read MoreTriangle 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.
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Read MoreSenator Jackson remains silent on charges he stole thousands of dollars in wages and blacklisted farmworkers who complained of abuses.
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Read MoreJoin 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.
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Read MoreIndy 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.
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April 15, 2016
FLOC’s March on Reynolds returns May 5th
Read MoreJoin 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!
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April 24, 2015
2015 March on Reynolds May 7th!
Read MoreJoin us on May 7th as we march and demonstrate for justice in NC tobacco fields outside the Reynolds American Headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC!
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February 13, 2015
Support tobacco farmworkers at Pantry shareholder meeting (3/10)
Read MoreThis 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.
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May 16, 2014
Farm and fast food workers unite
Read MoreOn 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.
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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.
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April 23, 2014
Join the 2014 March on Reynolds in Winston-Salem
Read MoreSupporters 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.
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April 17, 2014
North Carolina CEOs got paid HOW MUCH in 2013?!
Read MoreThe average CEO of a company based in North Carolina in 2013 made $4.2 million, 108 times more than the average worker and 277 times more than a worker earning minimum wages. But Reynolds CEO may take the cake for most egregious income disparity compared to the tobacco farm workers who harvest his golden crop.
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Read MoreUnion Summer is a paid internship for activists who want to be a part of helping to build a movement for farm laborers in North Carolina.
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March 3, 2014
Justin Flores: How farm workers win in the South
Read More“Farm workers never had the right to organize,” says Justin Flores with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), but they are doing it anyway and doing it in the South.
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February 27, 2014
Putting faith into action for farm workers in NC (3/18)
Read MoreAttend a forum for people of faith about farm workers’ struggle in North Carolina and help Organize the South!
