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.
The 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.
Union 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.
“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.
Attend a forum for people of faith about farm workers’ struggle in North Carolina and help Organize the South!
Volunteers are needed to help farm laborers hold a successful convention.
Baldemar Velasquez will be the guest speaker at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, Sep. 1.
We are down to the wire, and we desperately need your help.
The strategy is to hold actions every 3rd Wednesday this summer, beginning next week on June 19th.
Baldemar Velasquez and The Aguila Negra band will perform a mix of movement songs with traditional Mexican folk music at a benefit concert for FLOC on June 15th
Farmworkers and their supporters turned out in full force on May 9 at the Reynolds American 2013 Shareholders Meeting.
Join us in Winston-Salem on Thursday, May 9 as we rally and march for justice for tobacco farmworkers!
National Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW) will be celebrated in the United States beginning on Sunday, March 24th and running through Cesar Chavez’ birthday on Saturday, March 31st. There are plenty of ways you can join the celebration.
