Representatives from the IUF-affiliated Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) completed a 2 week European tour targeting Reynolds America & BAT…for the appalling migrant worker conditions on tobacco farms in the US...At BAT’s…annual shareholders’ meeting, Velasquez [FLOC President] presented extracts from an Oxfam America report detailing the abuses of workers…and urged BAT to take immediate steps to ensure that in its supply chain it respects human rights and its own corporate code of conduct…Velasquez…[said] “Through its significant influence over Reynolds America, BAT has the power and a moral obligation to take action to end these abuses.” Following the interventions…BAT chairman Richard Burrows committed the company to an urgent formal meeting with representatives of FLOC, the IUF, the AFL-CIO and the TUC to discuss conditions in U.S. tobacco fields…BAT management also agreed to support an industry-wide approach bringing together those who are best placed to bring about positive change in US tobacco fields.