FLOC Working To Organize 5,000 Tobacco Workers In North Carolina

By Doug Cunningham

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee is busy working North Carolina fields this summer in an effort to organize 5,000 more workers. There are an estimated 30,000 tobacco workers in North Carolina. The “Respect, Recognition, Raise” campaign is an effort to sign up thousands of new members so tobacco worker conditions can be improved. The FLOC campaign focuses not just on agriculture employers but also on RJ Reynolds tobacco company and the entire supply chain for the tobacco industry. FLOC says tobacco product manufacturers control the entire supply chain by setting standards the growers must comply with.