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According to Grossman, only 300 grape workers--less than 1 percent of the grape industry in California--are currently members of the UFW. The boycott applies to all California table grapes not picked by these workers...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Long-Time Ban, Dining Halls Will Serve Grapes Again | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

Mark Givens, an operating manager at Corrin--which supplies 75 percent of Costa's grapes--said California growers have responded to many union demands...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Long-Time Ban, Dining Halls Will Serve Grapes Again | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

...have in the '60s, you now have laws about working conditions and sanitation and toilets in the field and cleaning facilities to wash your hands," Givens said. "You have legal requirements on pay and overtime that didn't exist for farm workers in the '60s. The laws in California were changed...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Long-Time Ban, Dining Halls Will Serve Grapes Again | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

...union leaders disagree, citing the poor conditions still prevalent in California vineyards...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Long-Time Ban, Dining Halls Will Serve Grapes Again | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

...danger of becoming only as important as that optional essay on college applications that most of us chose not to write. The University of California, which includes nine campuses and enrolls 166,000 students, is considering dropping the SAT as a pre-requisite for admission in response to the state's recent ban on affirmative action. A task force commissioned by the university has projected that continuing to use the SAT could cause Hispanic and black enrollment at its schools to fall by as much as 70 percent when the ban takes effect on next year's undergraduate first-year...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Don't Abandon the SAT | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

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