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FLOC then targeted three members of Campbell's board of directors for economic pressure. FLOC also picketed Philadelphia National Bank, one of Campbell's major creditors. Shortly thereafter, depositors threatened to pull $500,000 out of the bank. [1] [6] [7] FLOC marches to Camden, New Jersey, to put pressure on the Campbell's Soup Co.
The Act established rules and authorized regulations similar to those of National Labor Relations Act, a federal law which formally protected the collective bargaining rights of most American workers except farm and domestic workers. [7] The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) administers the Act.
McWilliams described the prejudice that existed between urban and rural labor as a major obstacle to unionizing. Within the labor movement, urban factory labor was viewed more favorably than its rural counterpart. McWilliams states, "In order to achieve its ultimate objectives, organized farm labor must demolish this distinction...
A 2023 Sacramento Bee investigation revealed many migrants farmworkers would prefer to stay year-round in California. California closes thousands of farmworkers’ homes annually. New law explores ...
A Modesto-based Latino group is pushing for Stanislaus County’s crop reports to include information about the contributions of farmworkers.
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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 ...
The outcome of the fight between Wonderful Co.'s wealthy owners and California's storied farmworker union will shape the future of a divisive new process for unionizing agricultural job sites.