Farm Labor Organizing Committee FLOC, AFL-CIO

Reynolds Campaign Gains Momentum!

Stop Investing in Exploitation!

JP Morgan Chase is one of the lead banks in a consortium of lenders that has invested $498 million dollars in Reynolds American, one of the largest tobacco companies in the US.

While Reynolds American and JP Morgan Chase make billions, farmworkers continue to suffer serious human rights abuses in the fields.

At a demonstration in Detroit on June 25, Baldemar Velasquez announced that this summer we will be gathering thousands of signatures from supporters who will take their money out of Chase in the fall if the bank does not act to end abuses in tobacco fields.

Click here to pledge to support the boycott!

Recent Events

FLOC Announces Campaign leading up to Boycott of JP Morgan Chase at Demonstration in Detroit

FLOC Convinces Reynolds Board Member to Resign!

After months of pressure from FLOC and hundreds of calls, faxes, and visits from our supporters, last week Atkins turned in her letter of resignation. Read more.

Congratulations to Bill Bryan, recipient of 2010 "Being a Difference" Award

This is what responsible corporate leadership looks like!

March on Reynolds for Farmworker Justice!

On Friday, May 7th, 2010, hundreds of FLOC members and supporters gathered at the Reynolds Shareholders Meeting with a broad coalition of those interested in justice for tobacco farmworkers. Read more and watch the video

FLOC releases response to Reynolds American's disingenuous PR statement on human rights

In February 2010 Reynolds Board of Directors adopted a statment in support of human rights. Farmworkers deserve more than a meaningless statement! Read FLOC's response

Second annual leadership training held in Monterrey, MX March 28-29, 2010

Hundreds of FLOC leaders from all over Mexico gathered in Monterrey for a weekend of training and leadership development. Read the full report

FLOC Marches with our UMWA Brothers at Massey Energy Shareholder Meeting Read more

FLOC Denounces Anti-Immigrant Arizona Law

On April 28, FLOC joined other immigrant rights organizations denouncing the recent events in AZ and calling on supporters to fight against SB 1070 and similar policies locally. Read the statement

Chatham and Orange County Democratic Parties Vote Unanimously to Support Reynolds Campaign Read the Resolution

Upcoming Events

>> From AZ to NC: March For Immigrant Justice. Thursday, July 29, 2010

>> FLOC action at the US Social Forum in Detroit, MI June 22-26. Click here for our calendar of events!

Get Invovled!

>> Help us raise 200K in 2010!

>> Summer internships now available!

>> Volunteers needed for worker meetings in NC this summer. Contact us if you can help!

FLOC in the News

>> Immigrant Workers Find Respect Scarce Item in Another Country

>> Fighting for Farmworkers' Rights for More Than 40 Years

>>Social Forum Focuses on Workers' Issues

>> Workers Demand Chase Stop Michigan Foreclosures

>> FLOC Confronts JPMorgan Chase on way to Detroit Forum

>>Farm Labor Violators Facing New Scrutiny

>> Farm workers' union protests Reynolds' labor practices for third straight year

>> Rallying for Rights

>> A day's walk from Tobaccoville

>> FLOC Meeting Shines Light on Discrimination

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The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), 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 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 workers to have a direct voice in their own conditions.

Farm Labor Organizing Committee FLOC, AFL-CIO

...called upon to challenge the deplorable conditions of the broader workforce that remains voiceless, powerless, and invisible to mainstream America...