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...tendency among Chavez' strikers to split the world into rich and poor has strained relations between the United Farm Workers and their sister AFL-CIO unions. In 1965, Chavez' National Farm Workers Association joined the AFL-CIO simply because it could not survive without large-scale financial aid. There is no question that a $5000 monthly contribution by the United Auto Workers has kept the Farm Workers above water. But, as Munoz puts it, many of the farmworkers feel that "the man who makes $50 a day cannot ever understand the man who makes...
...cooperation of the local AFL-CIO continues to be important to Munoz' boycott--farmworkers have been given an office and office supplies gratis in the AFL-CIO building downtown, and several locals make contributions fairly regularly. But misunderstandings are common. Several times this summer when local unions received no acknowledgment for their contributions, they wrote irate letters citing the farmworkers for lack of gratitude. But before this month, Munoz was often the only man in the office for long periods of time. And he could not acknowledge the contributions because he does not read or write...
...protest, sponsored by the Harvard Young Peoples Socialist League (YPSL) in conjunction with the United Farm Workers AFL-CIO, was planned to coincide with the appearance of Nixon at a downtown Boston rally...
...United Farmworkers Organizing Committee, AF of L-CIO, has been on strike against all California growers for more than two years, asking union recognition (they are not covered by the Wagner Act), higher wages, and better working conditions...
...contract calling for annual pay increases of 18%, to $7.54 an hour. Last week in Detroit, carpenters were on strike for a 35% increase in pay and fringes, to $8.07 an hour, while striking bricklayers demanded a 42% raise, to $9.02. Despite a decade-old pledge by the AFL-CIO to end make-work practices in construction, union locals are still getting away with restrictions on such labor-saving devices as paint sprayers and power saws and nailers. In Los Angeles, builders who use air compressors pay an operating engineer $5.59 an hour to do nothing but turn the machine...