Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona Ecumenical Council interviewed 71 non-union grape pickers in 1972. Sixty-five said they did not want to join the UFW and bitterly opposed Chavez, although many said they would like some union...
Public sympathy against Chavez and the UFW in Delano is so strong that Mayor Frank Herrara and Assemblyman Bill Ketchum have been elected decisively in recent years while they have openly and bitterly opposed...
...Some Chavez supporters have attempted to explain the strike's failure by saying the workers feared the growers would replace them with migrants. But both California and Arizona, where Chavez has called his strikes, have laws granting the workers unionizing privileges. As soon as the workers strike the state moves in to arbitrate negotiations and the growers must recognize the union. The California Conciliation Service offered to do just this when Chavez first called his strikes, but Chavez declined the offer because the agency would require substantiation of his support among workers...
There is other evidence that the workers do not support Chavez. In the spring of 1970, 8000 Coachella Valley farmworkers paid for a full-page signed ad in the Riverside paper asking growers not to sign with...
...Washington, 1200 farmworkers have petitioned the governor and the legislature for protection that would keep Chavez out of the state...