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Rosenbaum, Rene P. "Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC): Grassroots Organizing for the Empowerment of the Migrant Farm Worker Community." Culture and Agriculture. No. 47 (Fall 1993). Rosenbaum, Rene P. "Unionization of Tomato Field Workers in Northwest Ohio, 1967–1969." Labor History. 35:3 (Summer 1994). Schneider, Keith.
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.
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.
In 1983, she resigned from the service center. In 1985, she trained under Cesar Chavez to be an organizer for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in Onarga, Illinois. [6] [7] Although committed to her work in FLOC, she was keenly aware of the gender discrimination within the organization. [8]
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 ...
No further significant farm organizing took place for 16 years. In 1975, a state law passed at the urging of César Chavez's UFW gave union organizers the right to meet with workers on the farms ...
In agriculture, he intervened in an eight-year-old dispute between the Campbell Soup Company, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, an AFL-CIO affiliate that organized farm workers in the Midwest) and tomato growers in Michigan and Ohio regarding conditions of work among the migrant workers who worked for growers supplying Campbell's with ...
The contractor provided agricultural labor to as many as four growers in Benton and Yakima counties since 2022. The department’s Wage and Hour Division completed an investigation into Harvest ...