The Virginia Worker August 2023: The Civil War in the Farm Labor Organizing Committee…
Article in The Virginia Worker by SNR and Sal Rojo, August 2023
“On a sweltering hot day early in July, a meeting was held in the back of the Cleopatra Beauty Salon. The space was decked out with “Virginia for Baldemar” banners – Baldemar being the 56-year long union president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC).
FLOC is the only farmworker union operating in the eastern half of the US, pioneering collective bargaining agreements for H-2A Visa migrant workers coming from Mexico.
The meeting was promoted as a rally to support two Virginia immigrant women FLOC members under attack from nefarious forces within FLOC.”