Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most American consumers of Gallo products--which include all wines bottled in Modesto, California--would like to see a quick and fair resolution to the struggle for labor representation. One deceptively simple solution is a "free," secret-ballot election. Elections are certainly desirable, but merely calling for them now is not enough. This proposal fails to take into account the context in which any elections would now take place. In widely different cases, General Nguyen van Thieu and Mayor Richard Daley have shown that elections are not the be-all and end-all they are sometimes thought to be, even...
...lettuce workers earn much more than your national median figures. And it's not just income that they have distorted, but migrancy, farmer's incomes, UFW support among farmworkers, UFW's record on violence, Teamster contracts, the nature of the UFW hiring hall, Chavez's record on secret ballot elections and a number of other issues...
...continue to support vigorously the banning of the private possession of handguns by everyone except the military and police. If the legislature cannot see its way to pass such a law, I will lead an initiative petition drive, collecting signatures next fall, which would put the question on the ballot...
...Greece. I made a speech, and after that I went around the town square. An old man of about 80 years with a grand white beard came up and kissed me. I asked him, "What is your forecast for the results of the election?" He said, "My boy, the ballot box is like a pregnant woman. She's full, and you do not know what is going to be born, a boy or a girl...
...California Conciliation Service stated it had never held elections and the UFW had rejected its offers to do so. While the Teamsters and growers have always demanded elections, Chavez has consistently prevented them. Chavez testified against a California legistlature bill in 1971 that guaranteed secret ballot elections, saying elections were too sophisticated for farmworkers. Dolores Huerta, UFW vice president, testified, "Farmworkers don't understand democracy, they don't know what an election...