Word: boycotters
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Munoz's effort is part of the third and largest boycott that the Chavez union has attempted since it first went out on strike against Delano Vineyards in September of 1965. Similar groups of farmworkers have been stationed in large cities throughout the country...
SINCE THE first strike, and a wine boycott against the Schenley company, the farmworkers have held and won union elections on seven of the grape ranches in the area, including Schenley and the California giant, DiGiorgio Farms. The remaining holdouts have proven more resistant, and the target of the present boycott, Giumarra Vineyards, has issued statements indicating that it never intends to negotiate with the Farm Workers on any basis. Still, the union has established itself in California as the strongest organization of agricultural workers since the thirties...
...cooperation of the local AFL-CIO continues to be important to Munoz' boycott--farmworkers have been given an office and office supplies gratis in the AFL-CIO building downtown, and several locals make contributions fairly regularly. But misunderstandings are common. Several times this summer when local unions received no acknowledgment for their contributions, they wrote irate letters citing the farmworkers for lack of gratitude. But before this month, Munoz was often the only man in the office for long periods of time. And he could not acknowledge the contributions because he does not read or write...
...PAST MONTH, the grape strikers have become increasingly concerned over the probability of Nixon's election. Whereas Humphrey has endorsed the boycott, Nixon has strongly opposed it, terming it "a descent into lawlessness...
Particularly galling to the farmworkers was Nixon's remark that the boycott was "illegal and unnecessary" because "we have a National Labor Relations Board to impartially supervise the election of collective bargaining agents and to safeguard the rights of organizers." In fact, as every farmworker is well aware, the National Labor Relations Act specifically excludes agricultural labor from protection, as does every significant piece of labor legislation passed since...