FLOC Reynolds Tobacco Campaign
FLOC Reynolds Tobacco Campaign
Current Campaigns: FLOC Reynolds Tobacco Campaign
Start Date: October 2007
Summary: Despite several attempts by FLOC President Baldemar Velazquez and FLOC allies, Susan Ivey, CEO of RJ Reynolds, has refused to meet with FLOC to discuss conditions for farmworkers in North Carolina's tobacco fields.
Save the Date - May 7th Reynolds Shareholder Meeting
The 2010 meeting of Reynolds Tobacco Shareholders will be May 7th in Winston-Salem, NC. As we have for the past two years, NFWM and FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing Committee)and other allies will have a significant presence demanding that Reynolds meet with FLOC to improve conditions for tobacco farm workers. We will be both inside the shareholder's meeting and outside on the streets. Check back here later for more information.
Reynolds Tobacco's 2009 Annual Shareholders Meeting - NOT Business as Ususal!
On May 6th, NFWM, FLOC, farm workers and other allies gathered in Winston Salem, NC for a day of actions during the annual shareholders meeting of Reynolds Tobacco (RAI). We were there to tell Reynolds’ management and shareholders that farm workers are stakeholders too!
The day began with a brief prayer service outside of Reynolds led by Kevin Todd, Duke Divinity Field Education Intern at NFWM NC. Together, they read the Litany, “Give us hope in a new day in which all women and men will know justice, peace, equality, and love; A new day when we will no longer need to gather to STRUGGLE for justice but will gather to CELEBRATE justice.”
