The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) is a labor union representing migrant farm workers in the Midwestern United States and North Carolina. FLOC...
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National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)...
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Farmer–Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that...
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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...
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Printing, Publishing and Media Workers (PPMW-CWA) Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) International Alliance...
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February 15, 1947) 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...
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students and activists. The Chicano Movement also crossed over with the Labor Movement using similar strategies and even overlapping goals with one another...
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civil servant Baldemar Velasquez (born 1947), president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL–CIO Chico Velasquez (died 1854), Native American leader...
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support "strata organizing", which focuses on "unrecognized workers" who are unable to organize due to the "dubious benefits of the National Labor Relations...
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María Elena Lucas (category United Farm Workers people)
American Midwest, organizing day care, a health clinic and other services. She was vice president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). Her activism...
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the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. He studied Irish literature at UC Berkeley. He is married with two children. "Mike Casey | San Francisco Labor Council...
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Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), an organization of mainly Filipino workers, to form the United Farm Workers. The labor organizing of Chávez was...
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history. Since 2006, R. J. Reynolds has been the subject of a Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) campaign to reduce the exploitative nature of its tobacco...
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organizing Texas agricultural workers under a separate banner much like those who founded Obreros Unidos in Wisconsin, and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee...
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Peace Project, Anne Braden, César Chávez, the United Farm Workers, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Teatro Campesino, LGBT social movements, the Stonewall...
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20th anniversary on December 31, 2019. In October 1998, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), a trade union, announced a boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle...
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"Sandusky County Democratic Party; the Ohio Democratic Party; Farm Labor Organizing Committee; North Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council;...
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The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC, /ˈdiːsɒk/ DEE-sok) was a political organization founded by Michael Harrington that advocated democratic...
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Employes, California Nurses Association, Farm Labor Organizing Committee and hundreds of other local labor unions.[citation needed] Delegates to the...
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Delano grape strike (category United Farm Workers)
strike was a labor strike organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization...
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The Tulare Labor Camps rent strike was conducted in 1965 in the United States by tenants of the Woodville and Linnell farm labor camps in California against...
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union originated as the Farm Equipment Workers' Organizing Committee, which was split off from the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee in 1938. In 1942, it...
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Gilbert Padilla (category United Farm Workers people)
Porterville. By May, Drake and Padilla were organizing farm worker families living in the area's Woodville and Linnell labor camps in a rent strike. The workers...
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The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) is an American secular Jewish labor organization founded in 1934 to oppose the rise of Nazism in Germany. Among its central...
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Maria Moreno (activist) (category United Farm Workers people)
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), becoming the first female farmworker in the U.S. to be hired as a union organizer. In December 1961, funding...
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– organizer, author, and co-founder of the Workers Defense Project Baldemar Velasquez (born 1947) – president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee Gustavo...
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Gino Perente (category National Labor Federation)
coast, and eventually one farm worker organizing drive had spawned a network of twenty such drives, called the National Labor Federation (NATLFED). By...
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Philip Vera Cruz (category United Farm Workers people)
American labor leader and farmworker. He helped found the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), which later merged with the National Farm Workers...
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(March 8, 1894 - March 23, 1962) was a Mexican American farm labor organizer, and the organizer of the school boycott famously known as The Lemon Grove...
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football team. Baldemar Velasquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and a 1989 MacArthur Fellow, received a BA in sociology from...
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