Uncovering the mistreatment of Farmworkers...

Every year, FLOC builds awareness about farmworker issues. Rev. Nelson Johnson from the Beloved Community Center, UAW President Bob King, UMWA President Cecil Roberts, other activists and Faith and Labor Leaders, have visited migrant farm labor camps in Eastern North Carolina to show their support to FLOC, the farmworkers union.

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) is a social movement and a labor union. Farm work is one of the most difficult, most dangerous, and most important work in our community. North Carolina is home to roughly 150,000 farmworkers and their families, largely a Latino population of migrants from Mexico and Central America. The majority of these workers still face poverty, food insecurity, hazardous working conditions and few protections under the law.

FLOC currently represents more than 7,000 H2A farm workers employed by the North Carolina Growers Association. This victory was won after the famous boycott of Mount Olive Pickles Company ended in 2004. But the majority continues missrepresented.

Tobacco is the main crop in the deep South. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, the second largest tobacco company in the United States, supported by it's financial partner JP Morgan Chase Bank, signs contracts with farmers to grow the tobacco and the farmers hire workers to cut and cultivate the crops. "Reynolds controls the whole system which decides what the workers get. They pay the farmers and the farmers pay the workers..."

For more information about the Reynolds/Chase Campaign, visit http://floc.com/

Thanks for your support! Hasta la Victoria!

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