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FARM LABOR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
AFL-CIO

Hasta La Victoria!
Victory will come!
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO is both a social movement and a labor union. Our immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry, but we are also involved with immigrant workers, Latinos, our local communities, and national and international coalitions concerned with justice. The FLOC vision emphasizes human rights as the standard and self-determination as the process for achieving these rights. We struggle for full justice for those who have been marginalized and exploited for the benefit of others, and we work to change the structures of society to enable these people a direct voice in their own conditions. (See About FLOC)
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FLOC 2009 WINTER NEWSLETTER
What's happened with FLOC this year?
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FLOC SEEKS JUSTICE For Reynolds Tobacco Field Workers
Tobacco workers suffer hazardous and demeaning conditions to make big corporations rich. FLOC President Baldemar Velásquez has called on Reynolds Tobacco CEO Susan Ivey to restructure its supply system to give field workers a direct voice in their own conditions. See Justice for Tobacco Field Workers
Also see:
  • FLOC responds to Reynolds' False and Misleading Statements.
  • FLOC at the 2009 Reynolds shareholders meeting
    • JUSTICE FOR SANTIAGO!
    The day after Easter, on April 9 2007, FLOC lost Santiago Rafael, an organizer who was viciously tortured and murdered in the union's offices in Mexico. See Justice for Santiago Rafael (PDF document in both English and Spanish).
    Santiago Rafael Cruz, PRESENTE!
    FLOC FIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
    FLOC President Baldemar Velásquez calls on President Obama and all Americans to (1) bring together unions, advocates, growers and corporations with relevant agriculture interests for the purpose of designing worker supply programs where the corporations are accountable for the labor which supplies their products, and (2) extend full labor rights for domestic, undocumented, and "guest workers", including the rights of association and right to organize unions. For more on FLOC and immigration, see Immigrant Rights
    FLOC SUPPORTERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
    Detroit FLOC supporters discuss how their group can raise funds to help support the FLOC campaign in N.C. To learn more about how our supporters have made a critical difference to the successes of the FLOC movement, go to FLOC Supporters.
    SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY
    FLOC President Baldemar Velásquez and the Aguila Negra band have released a new album, Justice Has No Boundaries, which sets the background for the campaign to organize Reynolds farmworkers in North Carolina. One original song in particular, Urbano's Song, tells the story of a worker who came from Guerrero Mexico seeking to support his family, only to be forgotten and left to die in fields of North Carolina. You can show your involvement with the FLOC movement through this album and other items in the FLOC Shop
    Thank You! Thank you for your support! It has always been the commitments and efforts of our supporters that have made our victories possible. As we continue the struggle for justice, we know we can count on you as we face new challenges and victories together.

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