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  • Farmworkers Push Tobacco Giant Reynolds to the Table
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    May 24 2012 - 11:55am
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    The perseverance of Farm Labor Organizing Committee activists in North Carolina paid off in early April when Reynolds American finally agreed to meet with the union. FLOC has been demanding since 2008 that the tobacco giant discuss working conditions for tobacco pickers.

  • Restaurant Workers Set Sights On Walmart Wannabe: Darden
    Jenny Brown
    May 24 2012 - 11:21am
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    Restaurant workers organizing with the Restaurant Opportunities Center have trained their sights on their most ambitious target yet—a giant chain that wants to become the Walmart of sit-down dining.

  • Common Ground on the Kill Floor: Organizing Smithfield

    Organizing the union at the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was a bruising 16-year battle, the fight brought together African American, white, and Mexican immigrant workers, who were able to find common ground despite the company’s attempts to use racial division and immigration enforcement to try to defeat them.

  • Fear is Biggest Obstacle, Says Farmworkers Union
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Oct 24 2011 - 10:41am

    An undocumented farmworker leader was deported last week, reinforcing the findings of a new Farm Labor Organizing Committee report that says tobacco pickers struggling to organize are stymied by fear.

  • Philly Troublemakers Get Schooled

    Philadelphia’s Troublemakers School saw classrooms full of union activists eager to work together and share. For many of the 125 participants, the opportunity to communicate with each other about their experience as organizers in the workplace was rare and important.

  • Minneapolis Hunger Strike Ends with Promises to Press On

    Retail cleaning workers and community allies ended a 12-day hunger strike against the Supervalu grocery chain Thursday. The workers, members of a Minneapolis worker center, called off the action when religious leaders and elected officials said they'd press management for a solution.

  • Minneapolis Grocery Store Cleaners Launch Hunger Strike
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    May 20 2011 - 11:14am

    Retail cleaners and community allies will begin a hunger strike Saturday to pressure the Supervalu grocery chain. A Minneapolis worker center seeks fair wages and conditions for workers who clean its stores late into the night.

  • NY Cabbies, Modern-Day Sharecroppers, Bid for Health Care

    The New York Taxi Workers Alliance released a groundbreaking plan yesterday to win health care for drivers. Classified as independent contractors, the city’s 50,000 licensed cabbies are uninsured at twice the rate of other New Yorkers—52 percent lack coverage, according to a city councilman’s 2009 survey.

  • May Day Marches See Labor Join Immigrants' Struggle for Rights
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    May 2 2011 - 3:53pm

    Tens of thousands marched nationwide May Day, demanding an end to attacks on workers and immigrants. “We have had all we can take,” said an immigrant organizer, noting record deportations.

  • Georgia: The New 'Show Me Your Papers' State

    Thousands rallied at the Georgia state Capitol last week, protesting anti-immigrant legislation. While Arizona-like bills are advancing in other Southern states, Georgia was the first to have a big show of opposition. Adelina Nicholls, executive director of Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, explained why.