The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), with support from the Campaign for Migrant Worker Justice (CMWJ), just concluded a two-year organizing campaign resulting in a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at an agricultural packing shed at Battleboro Produce in North Carolina! This is an unprecedented win for immigrant workers in the deep South.
The contract guarantees overtime pay, an 8% wage increase, union business paid leave, bereavement pay and more. Workers are now officially part of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO and will have union representation and a collective voice.
“We have benefits now, we have rights and representation!”-a new FLOC union member at Battleboro Produce
This is a historic victory extending union representation to a workforce that is predominately immigrant women. Our strategy and mission is to build immigrant power, fight for workers’ rights, and hold those in power accountable. This requires being both a community and labor union. By organizing the women at Battleboro Produce, we are not only strengthening workplace protections and directly increasing wages, but we are organizing households and entire communities.
Read more in-depth about the innovative methods we're using to organize immigrant workers in the deep South and how this worked at Battleboro Produce.
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