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Stanford University announces it will boycott table grapes...
Pressure from student groups forces Duke University to reintroduces its grape boycott...
...December 1996 press release, the UFW claimed that pesticides were an initial reason for the 1984 boycott. However the grape boycott resolution it released in 1984 does not mention pesticides...
...United Farm Workers (UFW) calls for a national boycott of table grapes, citing low wages for workers and protesting the policies of Republican California Governor George Duekmejian. The boycott is the third the union has called in its history...
Receiving less money for their grapes, the employers will either cut down on employment, leaving already destitute grape pickers unemployed, or will lower the quality of life for the grape pickers even more. The only party that stands to profit from the boycott is the United Farm workers Union, and the union benefits at the cost of all non-unionized workers. By claiming that supporting the boycott somehow upholds human rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings...