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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.
In 2019, the IUF was composed of 422 member organisations in 127 countries, representing more than 10 million workers. The organization represents workers employed in agriculture, the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages, hotels, restaurants and catering services and in tobacco processing.
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 ...
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.
The first major farm union organizing drive in the state, among hops pickers in Wheatland, north of Sacramento, was broken up by four companies of the National Guard called out by Gov. Hiram ...
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
Ernesto Galarza (August 15, 1905 – June 22, 1984) was a Mexican-American labor organizer, activist, professor, poet, writer, storyteller, and a key figure in the history of immigrant farmworker organization in California. He had a dream of giving better living conditions to working-class Latinos.