Word: boycotts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chavez also called for support of the farmworkers' boycott against non-union lettuce and grapes...
...boycott has caused the prices of lettuce and grapes to drop drastically, Chavez said, "to the point where they were giving grapes away in supermarkets...
...owner of Gallo Wine "expects us to leave the Gallo boycott and go after grapes, but we're going to fool him and go after both," Chavez said...
...film ends with the narrator explaining the decision to extend the fight to a nation-wide boycott as carloads of union members crowd into old Chevies heading out of California. The point is that the UFW has staked all in this struggle; to back down, to call off the boycott would discredit them forever. And this is where things stand now: Chavez vows to break the growers and the Teamsters and the growers seem determined to use the Teamsters to drive, the UFW out of existence. And seen though Pearey is uncritical and uncomplicated in his approach...
...Azores could not be used to resupply Israel in the event of a new Middle East war; and 3) warned that multinational corporations opposed to Portugal's "transition to socialism" have tried to damage the country's economy by withdrawing investment, and that a financial boycott by Western powers might follow...