Report details plight of North Carolina’s tobacco workers – Independent Weekly
Children of farmworkers play in the dusty backyard of a Wilson County labor camp, where their family lives in bunks with other workers. Photo by Victoria Bouloubasis.
One hundred and three farmworkers were interviewed last year for a report released in September by OxFam America and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). The report, “A state of fear: Human rights abuses in North Carolina’s tobacco industry,” brings an adamant argument to the table that human rights abuses exist in NC’s top industry. The result is an eye-opening awareness of exploited labor as the backbone of a direct consumer product—tobacco. Read the Independent Weekly story.
