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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. United Farm Workers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. María Elena Lucas - Wikipedia

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    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.

  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. Column: Inside the effort by two Beverly Hills billionaires ...

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    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 ...

  9. Agricultural Workers Organization - Wikipedia

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    In an earlier example of multiracial organizing among IWW agricultural workers was in the 1913 Wheatland Hop-Fields Riot in Wheatland, California. Ralph Durst and his brother, owners of a large farm and ranch, refused to address the complaints of their agricultural workers who presented a list of demands to them. In response to their refusal ...