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2. Farm Labor Organizing Committee - Wikipedia

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   FLOC's initial organizing strategy was to focus on workers, as most unions did. FLOC organizers followed migrant workers year-round, moving south to Texas and Florida every winter to build an organizing base. [4] By 1977, however, FLOC had only 700 members. [3]

3. Baldemar Velasquez - Wikipedia

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   Baldemar Velásquez (born February 15, 1947) [1] is an American labor union activist.He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO.He was named a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the "Genius Grant") in 1989, and awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1994, the highest honor Mexico can bestow on a non-citizen.

4. María Elena Lucas - Wikipedia

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   María Elena Lucas (born March 22, 1941) is a Chicana migrant farm worker, labor rights activist, poet, diarist, storyteller and playwright. [1] [2] [3] She founded the United Farm Workers' Service Center in the North American Midwest, organizing day care, a health clinic and other services.

5. United Farm Workers - Wikipedia

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   The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.

6. Texas Farm Workers Union - Wikipedia

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   After returning to South Texas Orendain left the UFW to devote himself to organizing Texas agricultural workers under a separate banner much like those who founded Obreros Unidos in Wisconsin, and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in Ohio. It appears that there were conflicts between the United Farm Workers and the Texas Farm Workers Union.

7. International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant ...

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   Farm Labor Organizing Committee: FLOC: United States International Brotherhood of Teamsters: IBT: United States Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union: RWDSU/UFCW: United States Service Employees International Union: SEIU: United States UNITE HERE: UNITE HERE: United States United Food and Commercial Workers International Union: UFCW ...

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9. List of labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE) International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers ...