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Though conditions have improved since Cesar Chavez began organizing workers in the late 1960s, Felipe said she would not support buying most California grapes if she were a Harvard student...
That distrust, which runs in two directions, seems to touch everything in the district. Not long ago, Latino residents decided to rename one of the elementary schools after the late activist Cesar Chavez, as a mark of cultural pride. But on the day of the dedication, supporters of the name change showed up at the school to find a group of blacks there too--protesting. They thought the Latinos wanted to honor Julio Cesar Chavez, the boxer, and they disapproved. Recalls Matias Varela, a Hispanic resident who heads the county's arts council: "It was a total misunderstanding between...
...addition, according to Mark Grossman, director of the UFW's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from 1975 to 1993, there are approximately 300 grape workers who are union members. Any grapes picked by these workers would be exempt from the boycott...
...Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who marched with UFW founder Cesar Chavez, came out against the UFW's grape boycott because of California's unique labor relations law that protects farm workers. Mahoney served as the first chair of California's Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Massachusetts does not have this type of protective farm labor law and many growers in this state perpetuate poor conditions for farm workers...
...very least, more thought should be given before changing the policy. If nothing else, it is not clear what circumstances have changed to warrant this new policy. In a Crimson article of Oct. 28, Mark Grossman, the director of the United Farm Worker's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from 1975-'93, was quoted as saying, "Nothing has changed. Grape workers who have organized under the UFW have been intimidated, physically attacked, and harassed [by] grape growers who refuse to bargain in good faith for union contracts...