Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW), will march with the demonstrators from Faneuil Hall to the A&P Boston headquarters on Atlantic...
...United Farmworkers, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, are slowly changing all that. The grape strike and boycott of the late 1960s won contracts from all major California and Arizona table grape growers by 1970. But the other produce industries remain to be tackled, one by one, until the growers will agree to provide wages, security, working conditions and benefits that have been considered basic in most industries for decades, and more importantly, until they recognize the workers' own choice of union representation. That can only be done by putting consumer pressure on the non-union growers...
...clothing workers boycott has been joined by a Citizens Committee for Justice for Farah Workers, chaired by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Included among the group's membership are Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.). Cesar Chavez, Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and Morris B. Abrams, former president of Brandeis College...
...other troubles, the U.F.W. finds its very existence under attack. In Arizona, Kansas and Idaho, laws have been passed that would cripple Chavez's organizing activities; they prohibit boycotts by farm workers, require farm-union elections before strikes can be called and hinder strikes at harvest time. Similar measures are included in an initiative that has been put on the California ballot by a combination of growers, shippers and the California Farm Bureau Federation. If a lettuce boycott can succeed under these circumstances, it may be that only Cesar Chavez can bring...