Source: Joe Killian, NC POLICY WATCH, 3/4/20

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a labor union representing 10,000 agricultural workers in North Carolina and the Midwest, is again suing the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of tobacco farm workers. On Thursday the committee and lawyers from the legal non-profit Public Citizen will file a claim in federal court to compel the release of records they say will show violations of federal labor laws on farms that sold tobacco to RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Universal Leaf Corporation, Altria or Alliance One International.

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