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TOBACCO farm workers in North Carolina have called for international solidarity over “union-busting” operations by the British American Tobacco (BAT) company.
They have united in the Farm Labour Organising Committee in their campaign for the right to organise and bargain collectively to improve their working and living conditions.
The farm workers accuse BAT of refusing to recognise the union and not acknowledging its own union-busting operations in the supply chain.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR