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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]
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Moreno's activism began in 1958, after a flood destroyed crops and stopped farm work. Farmworkers were denied food assistance and her family nearly starved. [4] In 1959 she was hired as an organizer for the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), becoming the first female farmworker in the U.S. to be hired as a union organizer.