N.C. Tobacco Farm Workers March on R.J. Reynolds for a Voice at Work
30th October 2007
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Katrina Blomdahl, AFL-CIO Voice@Work communications specialist, describes a rally backing the nearly 25,000 tobacco farm workers in North Carolina and their efforts to win justice on the job.
Nearly 400 tobacco farm workers and community and religious leaders from more than a dozen faith groups on Sunday marched at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. corporate headquarters with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)—the largest-ever FLOC event in the state.
Dressed in bright red T-shirts and carrying signs saying “End Oppression in the Tobacco Fields” and “Hasta la Victoria,” the energized crowd rallied behind a fundamental request: For R.J. Reynolds CEO Susan Ivey to meet with the workers to learn about the horrendous conditions suffered not only by tobacco farm workers in North Carolina, but across the southern United States and in Mexico.