Farm workers and their allies delivered nearly 5,000 letters from consumers around the country to convenience chain Kangaroo Express at its headquarters in Cary, N.C., this week. The letters call on its chairman of the board, Edwin Holman, to visit the tobacco fields and see firsthand the harsh working conditions of those who toil for Reynolds American.
For months, consumers and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) have been urging Kangaroo Express, the largest convenience store chain in the Southeast that sells tobacco products, to encourage Reynolds American to develop with FLOC a written agreement guaranteeing freedom of association and collective bargaining for thousands of tobacco farm workers in North Carolina.
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