FLOC confronts JPMorgan Chase on way to Detroit forum

On June 22, 2010, noon, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)—a migrant farm worker union affiliated with the AFL-CIO—rallied at One Government Center, Toledo, Ohio, to build support to stop the inhumane treatment of tobacco field workers at RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and their “complicit partner,” JPMorgan Chase. 

According to its news release, FLOC has chosen the Government Center “as the symbol of the government that has failed to protect these workers by their inability to enforce existing laws regarding minimum wages, adequate housing, working conditions, criminal indentured servitude and many other human rights violations.”

FLOC will be joined by hundreds of movement builders from all over the country, who will be passing through Toledo on their way to the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit. At the U.S. Social Forum on June 25^th, FLOC will lead thousands of protesters in the Faith, Labor, and Community March and Action Rally against JPMorgan Chase.

This march will make the links in the entire economic chain: from the tobacco harvesters exploited by RJ Reynolds and its business partner Chase to the foreclosures in Detroit and beyond. 

FLOC has chosen to go to the seat of power of the corporations who are responsible for these conditions to demand change in the practices in their supply chain.

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