Word: chavez
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some organizers have been working for 11 months to set up this year's Model Congress, and the board members had been at the Park Plaza since Wednesday morning, according to Business Manager Nicolas A. Chavez...
...little different this year because we changed from the Boston Sheraton to the Park Plaza, but the faculty have been saying that this has been one of the best, if not the best, Harvard Model Congress ever," said Chavez, who is a former Crimson executive...
...contracts expire and the Teamsters union vies with the UFW for new ones. Chavez leads UFW workers in a strike, and growers get Teamsters thugs to rough-up the striking workers. About 3,000 arrests, 400 beatings and 44 shootings occur, according to Marshal Ganz '66-'92, an instructor at the Kennedy School of Government and a former officer of the UFW. Chavez ends the strike and calls for a boycott...
...Chavez calls for another grape boycott. In the boycott resolution, low wages and lax enforcement of the ALRA are cited. Pesticides are not mentioned as a motive...
...Chavez passes away in April. Critics reviewing his life say he lost touch with the workers as he grew older. Arturo Rodriguez succeeds him as UFW President and organizes a march through grape country to reconnect the UFW with the workers. The grape boycott is no longer actively pursued...