Nat’l Catholic Reporter 10/20/22: Prolonged leadership dispute…
Article in National Catholic Reporter, October 20, 2022
https://www.ncronline.org/news/prolonged-leadership-dispute-rankles-major-farm-labor-union
Prolonged leadership dispute rankles major farm labor union by Patrick O’Neill
“At age 21, Baldemar Velasquez, son of a Mexican family that spent years working in U.S. agriculture, decided to take action to address the deplorable conditions imposed on farmworkers.
Angered and aggrieved and following in the footsteps of Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mohandas Gandhi, Velasquez founded the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, or FLOC. According to its website, the union “has set international precedents in labor history, including being the first union to negotiate multi-party collective bargaining agreements, and the first to represent H2A international guestworkers under a labor agreement.””