NC faith leaders to meet with Reynolds Tobacco on farmworkers’ rights
Story Date: 11/29/2021

 

Source: Nadia Ramlagan, NC PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE, 11/29/21

Faith leaders are urging tobacco companies to support migrant workers employed by their contract farms. A group of clergy will meet next week with representatives from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company about North Carolina farmworkers' right to organize for better wages and working conditions without retaliation. Julie Taylor, executive director of the Raleigh-based National Farm Worker Ministry, said advocates want British American Tobacco, R.J. Reynolds parent company...

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