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  2. Farm Labor Organizing Committee - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  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. 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 ...

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

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    The contractor provided agricultural labor to as many as four growers in Benton and Yakima counties since 2022. The department’s Wage and Hour Division completed an investigation into Harvest ...

  8. 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.

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

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    The UFW ultimately presented the labor board with signed cards from more than half the employees giving the UFW authority to represent them in collective bargaining on a contract, a process known ...