The US Midwest does not plant, grow, pack or transport many vegetables. However near Toledo OH the Farm Labor Organizing Committee AFL-CIO has organised agricultural areas with walkouts and the signing of strike authorization cards by over 2,500 members in the early 1980's as covered by Multinational Monit
FLOC initiated a national boycott agaisnt Campbells Soup Company and Libbys. It was reported that farmers were getting only 9% of ech dollar spent at local grocery stores while a scant 4% went to the field hands.
FLOC won the boycott, and marched to New Jersey from Toledo where they met representatives of the soup company.
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Original: Brief History of Ohio Farmwokers in FLOC near Toledo