Word: cesar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect fair employment on the pesticides, clean drinking water and sanitary facilities, a medical plan, and so forth. The new law requires the owners to bargain "in good faith" with the union chosen by the majority of workers, but that is as far as it goes. UFW President Cesar Chavez expected that 90 per cent of the growers wouldn't sign contracts after elections were won by UFW--until they were faced with strikes and boycotts...
...consumers and farmworkers to engage in delegations, boycotts, and strikes to contracts signed. Knowledge of the farmworkers' plight has compelled many people to support the UFW union efforts to bring about change. Close to 500 volunteer organizers are working for the union. Organizers receive the same benefits as Cesar Chavez and all members of the UFW staff--room, board, $5 a week, and transportation money in the area of work. They take with them a rare learning experience in practical skills which can be applied to many aspects of daily living and working. They also know the sense of making...
...Memoirs do give us wonderful sketches of Neruda's friends and contemporaries--Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Eduardo Frei, Soong Ch'ing Ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen, and Cesar Vallejo among others--but they somehow leave us without the personal detail of Neruda himself. The Memoirs, for instance, barely mention Neruda's first wife or marriage, an 18-year venture--and have no more than one or two dozen specific time references...
...some areas, they emphatically want it to leave them alone in others. Outside Del Rey. Calif.. Harold Shidan, 57, a stocky raisin grower, faulted Carter for endorsing the state's unsuccessful attempt to settle the three-way labor battle between the growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull up seven acres of plum trees because...
...July 10 the non-striking Gallo workers, including the new replacements, ratified a four-year Teamster contract by a vote of 158-1. The striking workers did not vote in the contract-ratification election and Cesar Chavez, head of the UFW, called the contract a "sweetheart deal" between the Teamsters and the winery. The UFW complained that the election had not been verified by a third-party, but Solomon said that it had not even been observed by Gallo. "It was a closed-door union meeting; management doesn't sit in on contract-ratification votes," Solomon says...