Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CESAR CHAVEZ, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was in town this week to drum up support for a new grape boycott. It seems the governor of California, George Deukmejian, has turned a deaf ear to the plight of the impoverished--in some cases, starving--laborers, in sharp contrast to the open-arms policies of Chavez old friend, former governer Jerry Brown. Chavez objects specifically to Deukmejian's recent line-veto of an appropriation by the state congress which was to speed up the collection of millions of dollars in back pay owed the workers. But that issue...
...already demanded by the court from growers to the laborers. But most of those cases take more than six years to resolve, because of the excessively complex, drawn-out system of court appeals and time lags which, as Smith admits, favor the rich growers without exception. Smith says the boycott, if successful, could help the union win contracts--currently, only a small minority of the fields are unionized. On the non-union farms, firings over union activity and discrimination and bad-faith bargaining are the rule, not the exception. As with the disputes over salary, all these cases take years...
Chavez, who began organizing farm workers in 1962, founded the United Farm Workers four years later. In 1973 he called on a worldwide boycott of grapes, head lettuce, and Gallo wines, protesting growers' refusal to allow union organizing...
...boycott, which ended successfully in 1975, was supported by 17 million American adults, according to a Harris Poll. Chavez has directed a total of 27 boycotts during his tenure as UFW president, each of which he served "successful...
Chavez called on all his old supporters to back the present boycott, and also asked for the help of the "new crop' of concerned citizens. He has been in Boston for the past three days to gather support of the boycott...