Vol. 80/No. 32      August 29, 2016

 

25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

 
August 30, 1991

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — The Fifth Constitutional Convention of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), held here August 3, reflected the accomplishments as well as the challenges still ahead for the Toledo-based union of 5,000 agricultural workers, most of them migrant.

Since its founding 24 years ago FLOC has grown in membership and geographical influence, winning contracts that can help strengthen the hand of farm laborers.

The convention celebrated the union’s recent breakthrough at Dean Foods, where the company has agreed to negotiate three-way contracts with FLOC members and the owners of the farms where they work.

Dean is the last of the three major pickle processors in the region to negotiate with FLOC.

Sept. 5, 1966

Cartoon shows new program to increase U.S. troops in Vietnam

August 30, 1941

MINNEAPOLIS — The Tobin-employers-government attempt to smash Local 544-CIO motor transport workers union met with further reverses this week as the CIO union hammered away on its demand for democratic industry-wide elections to determine the choice of bargaining agency for the truck drivers of this city.

A parade of CIO witnesses has appeared in the past two days before the hearings being held by state labor conciliator Blair on Tobin’s AFL-“544”’s petition for certification as the exclusive bargaining agent for all the local drivers. The claims of Tobin’s agents were knocked out completely when over 1,200 drivers packed the 544-CIO headquarters at the regular membership meeting. At the last reported AFL “544” meeting there was an attendance of only 56.  
 
 
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