Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they do it? "With the most sweeping strikebreaking operation in California farm labor history," Chavez answers. Chavez says agricultural strikes are different than strikes in industry. Even though the UFW has signed many contract with growers and despite the passage of California's landmark 1975 collective bargaining law for farm workers, organizing farm labor is still almost as difficult...
...Late Sixties." Many movements arose (and subsequently declined) during that era, but one movement which rose up on the crest of the Civil Rights Movement continues to push forward, and remarkably has kept all of its original principles intact. The United Farm Workers' (UFW) Union, led by Cesar Chavez, has weathered 17 years of struggle with California agribusiness and since 1962, has become a viable instrument in representing and protecting farm labor...
...boycott yet another brand name: Red Coach Lettuce. Why are the farm workers asking their friends to answer yet another call for support? "Because what began as a traditional economic dispute between labor and management has turned into another attempt by growers to crush the union." UFW President Cesar Chavez says. "Because agribusiness has not really accepted the idea of free collective bargaining. Because many growers still hope to destroy...
...does not matter how well organized the workers are or how effective the strike is," Chavez says. "In agriculture that is not enough because the growers use thousands of illegal alien strikebreakers to respond to their workers' just economic demands...
...supermarkets in the Boston area, De Moula's, Ceritan's, Purity Supreme, Hernandez., Star and Capital, have agreed not to carry Red Coach lettuce. Chavez met with Stop and Shop Supermarket officials yesterday, and reached no agreement...