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Big tobacco companies are among the richest parties in American agriculture. They have constructed a supply system that benefits themselves, at the expense of those who produce their leaf products. FLOC has continuously called on Reynolds American to meet with the farmworkers their company relies on for its raw product and put an end to exploitation in NC tobacco fields.

Big tobacco has an expansive supply chain that spans from the tobacco fields to their production facilities to local stores near you. Recently, FLOC supporters have called on regional chains, such as Kangaroo Express , 7-Eleven, and Wawa to be a part of the solution.

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Highlights

>>Press Release: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO Endorses Immigration Reform Compromise with Labor Protections for Farmworkers

>>Immigration feature article: Deportation breaks apart families in Ohio, across nation

>>ReynoldsCampaign Breakthrough! After four years of pressure, Reynolds has agreed to meet directly with FLOC.Read more

Recent Events

Over 40 union leaders attend the 2013 Leadership Training In Monterrey, Mexico

NC Supporters tell Kangaroo to stand up for Human Rights

Local actions in NC

Northwest OH Immigration Forum

How local immigration policies are affecting families

Sesario Duran steps up as Secretary Treasurer of FLOC, awarded Distinguished Hispanic Ohioans Award by Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs

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Consumers deliver thousands of letters to Kangaroo stores in North Carolina and South Carolina

Watch YAYA and LCLAA allies mic check letter delivery to Kangaroo in Florida!

26th Annual Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice walks through Wilson for justice for tobacco farmworkers

FLOC sends message of solidarity to MOCRI and community members in Chiapas fighting for basic human rights

FLOC stands in solidarity with Boeing machinists on strike at Seymour Johnson AFB

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FLOC and Oxfam release groundbreaking human rights report

We are pleased to announce the release of our new report, "A state of fear: Human rights abuses in North Carolina’s tobacco industry," which details the human rights impact of the tobacco industry on North Carolina’s farmworkers

>Read the full report here

>Pictures from the launch rally

>Watch video clip from the launch rally

>Press Release

>Read reviews of the report

2013 March on Reynolds Shareholders Meeting

Check out the report back and pictures from the protest!

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FLOC in the News

>>Protesters say they want more than talk from Reynolds

>>Top tobacco executives set to meet with FLOC

>>Immigration reform won’t solve farm workers’ woes

>>A Look Back At The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign And How We Create Black And Brown Unity Today (Audio)

>>Protesters take tobacco farmworker issues to local stores

>>Danger and death in the tobacco fields

>>Many migrant camps lack safe water

>>Labor rights leader: ‘Anything is negotiable’ when ‘the rich man’s’ money is threatened

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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...