They were picketing what they claim to be Greenleaf’s use of the Edgecombe County legal system on Oct. Pickets from the Farm Labor Organizing Committee of the AFL-CIO - FLOC - and the National Farm Worker Ministry were set up Wednesday on Chinquapin Road, which runs through the middle of the Oklahoma-based company’s 209-acre property covered with dozens and dozens of greenhouses. The dispute heated up recently when one of the growers, Greenleaf Nursery, called the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office out to the farm to intimidate its workers and their union. FLOC has been informing the tobacco industry about these types of abuses by H2ALCs for years, but continue to meet with inaction. FLCs save money by stealing from workers and not complying with the law, using threats and intimidation to keep workers quiet. Growers frequently outsource the recruitment and management of farm workers to FLCs because the costs of hiring workers directly, paying good wages, maintaining proper housing, and ensuring compliance with laws and benefits in a union contract cost money. Sign this petition calling on these growers and their Farm Labor Contractor Salvador Barajas to negotiate with their employees. Salvador Barajas, the FLC on these farms, has stolen workers’ wages and put workers’ health at risk through dilapidated housing and by forcing them to purchase unsanitary and inhumane meals at illegal prices. Watch a video of two FLOC members discussing corruption and abuse on their farm. They are demanding that the farms recognize their union and negotiate to end wage theft, abuse, and intimidation they have suffered at the hands of corrupt farm labor contractor (FLC) Salvador Barajas. Over the last several weeks, delegations of farm workers and community supporters delivered written notices to employers in support of Farm Labor Organizing Committee ( FLOC) members calling for an end to abuses and corruption in their workplace. “ Workers are no one’s property, they are human beings.”
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