May 1, 2014
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Read how members of UFCW Local 1208 are bringing hope to their neighbors in rural North Carolina, as featured in Indy Week.
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.
UFCW members at Local 1208 need North Carolina and the country to pay attention to this campaign, part of the larger effort by labor unions to organize a new movement of southern workers.
“Tennesee taxpayer money was used to influence the outcome of the UAW vote,” says MSNBC host Ed Schultz, based on a report in the Detroit News.
Kellogg’s workers are fighting back through their union against a new corporate culture at the company that is locking out workers, shuttering plants, and threatening to drive its workers out of the middle class.
“Laws in and of themselves don’t grant power,” says Angaza Laughinghouse. “We can have collective bargaining rights, but if workers aren’t taking workplace action, nothing is going to happen.”
“Myths about the impossibility of organizing in the South or organizing poor workers are increasingly being put to rest,” says Zaina Alsous.
“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.
“We are one of the few success here in the South in recent history, and everybody is a part of that,” says Keith Ludlum.
“We need to spread the word that a union card is the best anti-poverty program around,” says MaryBe McMillan.
“North Carolina has been the scene of some of the most important labor struggles in American history,” says Robert Korstad.
“The center of political gravity in the country is shifting toward the South,” says Chris Kromm.
Attend a forum for people of faith about farm workers’ struggle in North Carolina and help Organize the South!
Worker organizing in the South was the focus of a panel discussion and public Q&A session attended by nearly 150 activists and scholars on Presidents Day at Duke.
The North Carolina State AFL-CIO is the largest association of local unions and union councils in North Carolina, representing over one-hundred and forty-thousand union members, fighting for good jobs, safe workplaces, workers’ rights, consumer protections, and quality public services on behalf of ALL working people.
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