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Exposing the "State of Fear" in NC Tobacco Fields

From 2010 to 2011, Oxfam America and FLOC conducted face-to-face interviews with tobacco stakeholders, including farmworkers, growers, and cigarette makers. The summary report released May 5, 2011 by Oxfam and FLOC details widespread human rights abuses in North Carolina tobacco fields.

Exposing the "State of Fear" in NC Tobacco Fields

British American Tobacco Feels Heat Over Reynolds' Refusal to Meet

Last week outside the British embassy in Washington, DC and British consulates in nine other major cities, supporters of justice for tobacco field hands rallied and delivered messages urging the government of the United Kingdom to pressure BAT to take affirmative action to bring Reynolds American executives to the bargaining table with FLOC.

British American Tobacco Feels Heat Over Reynolds' Refusal to Meet

Press Clips May 2, 2011

• AFL-CIO President speaks at Milwaukee's May Day march
• Ryan's budget represents a path to nowhere for m

Press Clips May 2, 2011

Speak NC: Speech Therapist

With legislators proposing hundreds of millions of dollars to cuts in Medicaid, it's unclear whether or not many of North Carolina's speech therapists will be able to stay in business.

Speak NC: Speech Therapist

Jobless Workers Testify at Public Hearing on Benefits Lapse

This week, Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis and others came face-to-face with jobless workers who spoke at a public hearing called by Sen. Martin Nesbitt to shame state lawmakers who are blocking the extension of federal unemployment benefits in North Carolina.

Jobless Workers Testify at Public Hearing on Benefits Lapse

NC GOP to Workers Walking Picket Line, "Let them eat cake."

About three dozen North Carolinians who are fed up with calls by Republican leaders for everyone else to sacrifice so they and their corporate campaign backers can continue to sacrifice nothing walked a picket line outside the headquarters of the North Carolina Republican Party in Raleigh, today.

NC GOP to Workers Walking Picket Line, "Let them eat cake."