Action Alert: Support new farm worker overtime bill in CA
California friends, your help is needed! On June 2nd, the overtime for farm workers bill (AB 2757) in the California State Assembly received a 38-35 v... Read More »
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Action Alert: Support Sakuma Workers!
We ask you to continue to support members of Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) so they get a fair, transparent negotiation process and a clean ele... Read More »
Tags: Driscolls, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, FUJ, NFWM, Sakuma Bros. Farm
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2016 UFW Constitutional Convention
Earlier in May, I joined the National Farm Worker Ministry staff and board as we journeyed to Bakersfield, California for the 50th anniversary of the ... Read More »
Tags: NFWM, UFW, United Farm Workers
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2016 March on Reynolds
The 2016 FLOC trip was smaller and shorter than years past, however, there was some serious quality packed into this three day whirlwind. Nico Gumbs, ... Read More »
Tags: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, FLOC, RAI, Reynolds Tobacco
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NFWM Joins FLOC’s Support for Blacklisted Farm Workers
“We began to notice that the grower and supervisor would steal our wages by clocking us out for anything they could, like changing fields, waiting f... Read More »
Tags: FLOC, NFWM, North Carolina, Reynolds American, United Farm Workers
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Welcome Patrick Webb – Duke Divinity School Ministerial Intern
National Farm Worker Ministry is pleased to ... Read More »
Tags: NFWM
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Earth Day Celebration 2016
Saturday, April 23rd, YAYA tabled at the Earth Day Festival at Lake Eola. There were so many different interests represented at the festival, and we h... Read More »
Tags: Central Florida, Earth Day, Orlando
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Hauling, Weeding, Feasting, and Sweating
On Saturday, April 9th a group of seven volunteers travelled to Fellsmere to visit old friends, make new ones, and help out in the Campesinos Garden.... Read More »
Tags: Campesinos Garden, Community Garden, Farmworker Association of Florida, Fellsmere, FWAF
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Farm workers, Climate Change, & Agriculture
On Thursday, March 31st, YAYA –NFWM and the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF) hosted a Climate & Agricultural Panel at 1st Unitarian Chur... Read More »
Tags: Climate Change, Farm Workers, Farmworker Association of Florida, FWAF
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Join NFWM May 5th for the March on Reynolds 2016
Come out and support FLOC and farm workers! Rally at Reynolds May 5th at 10:00 AM Reynolds American Headquarters, 401 N. Main St, Winston-Salem foll... Read More »
Tags: FLOC, Reynolds American
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