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  2. Farm Labor Organizing Committee - Wikipedia

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    FLOC began organizing cucumber pickers and pickle processing workers in North Carolina in the early 1990s. The union's efforts had made little headway by the mid-1990s, however. In October 1998, FLOC announced a boycott of Mount Olive Pickle Company , the major pickle processor in the state.

  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. 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 ...

  5. List of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO - Wikipedia

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    Since the founding of the AFL in 1886, the AFL-CIO and its predecessor bodies have been the dominant labor federation (at least in terms of the number of member workers, if not influence) in the United States. As of 2014, the labor federation had approximately 12.7 million members. [1] [2] As of 2015, the AFL–CIO had 56 member unions. [3] [4]

  6. John Thomas Dunlop - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Floc - Wikipedia

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    Floc can refer to: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a labor union; Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a type of web tracking for interest-based advertising; Floc (or flock), flake of precipitate that comes out of solution during the process of flocculation; Floc (biofilm), a specialized biofilm suspended in water

  8. Tri-Cities farm labor group fined $252K, banned for ... - AOL

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    Kennewick-based farm labor contractor Harvest Plus LLC ... H-2A program for three years and fined the organization $252,475. The contractor provided agricultural labor to as many as four growers ...

  9. 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 ...