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>>Outside Democratic Convention 2012, Unions Call To 'Organize The South'

>>Getting needed medical help to migrant farmworkers

>>Farmworkers Push Tobacco Giant Reynolds to the Table

>>Reynolds OKs meeting farm workers group

 

>>NC farmworkers' group to protest at RJR meeting

>>Farmworkers to protest Reynolds American meeting

>>Winston-Salem picket and march in support of NC tobacco farmworkers

>>NC farmworkers' group to protest at RJR meeting

 

>>The Changing Face of Unions

>>Hundreds of farmworkers to protest Reynolds American

>>Tobacco companies, growers and workers to meet

>>FLOC aids tobacco workers
Toledo-based union forming council for dialogue in N.C.

>>Tobacco firms agree to discuss farm workers' rights

>>Organizing in the Tobacco Fields

 

U.S.-Mexico labor alliance calls for end to persecution of Mexican workers

Farm Worker Advocates Target Kangaroo Express

FLOC pressures Mexican president on murder investigation

North Carolina convenience-store chain targeted for ignoring abuse of tobacco pickers

USAS campaign to ban sale of some cigarettes on campus

 

President Velasquez named one of 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business

 

From The Promised Land: interview with Baldemar Velasquez

Report details plight of North Carolina's tobacco workers

 

The difference between legal, illegal farm labor

 

US Congress has unpaid debt to migrant farmworkers/ Congreso tiene deuda pendiente con trabajadores del campo en Estados Unidos

Eye-Witness to the Cruel Conditions in Tobacco Farm Labor Camps

 

Fear is Biggest Obstacle, Says Farmworkers’ Union

 

Farmworkers take plea to government

 

Rights of Tobacco Farm Workers Go Up in Smoke in North Carolina

 

Power of Politics Blog by Oxfam

 

Justin Flores and Russell Bannan on the Mario Solis-Marich Radio Show

 

NC tobacco workers face below-minimum wages and abusive working and living conditions

FLOC, family seek justice in 2007 death

 

Gremio de EU denunciará al Estado mexicano por asesinato de activista

 

Marcha nacional e investigación ratifican malas condiciones y abusos de trabajadores agrícolas

Campesinos ¡de pie!

Reynolds' farm worker concessions show evolution of handling conflict

FLOC Organizer Justin Flores on the Rick Smith radio show

Group protests inhumane labor conditions

Mala vida en el campo

Study: Tobacco workers face brutal conditions in tobacco fields

Unions use tobacco company AGM to organize global supply chain

Unions raise exploitation of American tobacco workers at BAT London AGM

Hundreds Demand Chase Respect Human Rights

Dozens Picket Mexican Consulate in Raleigh

At Nationwide Protests FLOC and Coalition Deliver the Message: JP Morgan Chase--Morally Bankrupt

Velasquez represents US-American farmworkers in historic global labor code negotiations in Geneva

FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez Inducted into OH Civil Rights Hall of Fame

UAW Launches Protest of Chase Over Foreclosures, RJ Reynolds Ties

UAW says could use GM IPO to pressure Chase

September 24, 2010. Reuters.

 

"Migajas:" El Pago a los trabajadores agricolas

September 22, 2010. La Conexion

Farmworkers launch divestment campaign against JPMorgan Chase

September 16, 2010. Facing South.

Undocumented immigrants protest "tax and deport" policy

August 27, 2010. News & Record

Social Forum Focuses on Workers' Issues

June 28, 2010. AFL-CIO Now Blog News.

Workers Demand Chase Stop Michigan Foreclosures

June 29, 2010. People's World

FLOC Confronts JPMorgan Chase on way to Detroit Forum

June 22, 2010. La Prensa

Farm Labor Violators Facing New Scrutiny

June 10, 2010. Toledo Blade

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

May 12, 2010, Yes! Weekly

Rallying for Rights

May 21, 2010. Oxfam America

A day's walk from Tobaccoville

June 4, 2010. Oxfam America

FLOC Meeting Shines Light on Discrimination

April 18, 2010, Toledo Blade

Fighting for Farmworkers' Rights for More Than 40 Years

January 10, 2010. Ground Report

Lawsuit alleges racial profiling by U.S. Border Patrol, et al.

December 10, 2009. La Prensa

Workers Without Borders

March 9, 2009. The New York Times, Jennifer Gordon

Baldemar Velasquez writes to President Obama on Guest Worker Program

February 3, 2009. In response to the exploitive lame-duck rules for "guest workers" implemented by the Bush administration before he left office, Baldemar Velásquez wrote President Obama to address the Guest Worker program.

Labor Secretary Proposes Suspending Farm Rules

March 13, 2009. The New York Times, Steven Greenhouse

FLOC Protests Proposed H2A Rules

March 20, 2008 FLOC Letter to Thomas Dowd, Office of Policy Development and Reserach

FLOC works to put immigrants back on the map

December 10, 2008. Toledo City Paper

FLOC Denounces New Crackdown on Immigrants

August 22, 2007. FLOC publication

Unions Fight Against Abuse of Migrant Laborers

June 11, 2007. The Christian Science Monitor, Sara Miller Llana

Graft Mars the Recruitment of Mexican Guest Workers

May 24, 2007. The New York Times, Elisabeth Malkin

Voices of a New Movimiento

June 1, 2006. The Nation, Roberto Lovato

FLOC Challenges Congressman Gillmor At Town Hall Meeting

August 30, 2006. FLOC Press Release.