Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO
Called upon to challenge the deplorable conditions of the broader workforce that remains voiceless, powerless, and invisible to mainstream America
FLOC and allies attended the Philip Morris International (PMI) shareholders meeting and later delivered a 10,000 name petition about labor violations on PMI farms to press the company to engage with FLOC about resolving problems and guaranteeing freedom of association for farmworkers in their supply chain.
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FLOC members and allies took over Winston Salem streets for the eighth time at Reynolds American’s annual shareholders meeting, calling on the company to guarantee freedom of association throughout their supply chain and ensure farmworkers have a safe grievance procedure to voice and remedy complaints. This year, FLOC’s focus was on a recent report of child labor and other serious violations on Reynolds contract farms.
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FLOC organizers, along with members of the FLOC Homies Union, joined the students representatives of the on-campus chapters of the OSU Student Farmworkers’ Alliance, United Students Against Sweatshops, and Real Food OSU.
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FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez led a group of FLOC members, FLOC Homies Union members, and other activists in a march to Reynolds American Inc. headquarters in Washington D.C to deliver a petition with 20,000 signatures.
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After years of public pressure from the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Reynolds American continues to refuse to guarantee collective bargaining rights, fair wages, and decent housing in their supply chain. On Friday, August 28, Youth
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In commemoration of World Day Against Child Labor, FLOC President Velasquez outlines how child labor is just one of the many consequences of the US government and agricultural industry denying farmworkers a voice on the job.
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FLOC members and allies marched through Downtown Winston Salem, NC as they demanded that Reynolds American sign an agreement with FLOC guaranteeing labor rights for farmworkers in their supply chain.
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U.S. tobacco farmworkers return to BAT AGM for fourth year.
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LONDON, UK- Baldemar Velasquez, the President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a union that represents tobacco farm workers in North Carolina and the American South, told stockholders at the British American Tobacco (BAT) Annual
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