Cucumber Pickers Maintain a Boycott.

• Position: Boycott against Mt. Olive Pickle Co. - Brief Article

Durham, North Carolina

On March 24, Ajamu Dillahunt, a steering committee member of Black Workers for Justice, spoke at a rally marking the first anniversary of the boycott against Mt. Olive Pickle Co. That boycott is spearheaded by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), which organizes cucumber pickers in North Carolina. FLOC and Black Workers for Justice say pickers work an average of twelve hours, six or seven days a week, that their living conditions are abominable, and that...