Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston UFW branch was protesting the firm's investments in the California Desert Valley Citrus Company, which is having contract disputes with migrant farm-workers in California's Coachella Valley, protester Bernard Bell '78 said yesterday...
Every year when the azalea and eucalyptus bushes begin to bloom in the citrus belt, the winter golf tour gets underway and people begin to wonder if Jack Nicklaus will reassert his dominance or if the golden hours of the Golden Bear are finally winding down...
Although elections still command much of the spotlight, the UFW has to focus its very limited resources on getting negotiations underway. For example, at Coachella Growers (citrus), the UFW won the union election, but the company has harassed workers by stopping bus service and cutting back the work week. Workers must now get up at 4 a.m. if they wish to commute; otherwise they must live in the labor camp which is expensive and only accomodates men. Growers have said no to a UFW hiring hall, no to a grievance procedure, and no to UFW medical and pension plans...
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, in partnership with the Desert Valley Citrus Corporation, controls Coachella Growers, and thus directly contributes to the exploitation of the 450 citrus workers on the ranch. Irv Hirshenbaum, director of the New England UFW office, has asked supporters to apply pressure on Connecticut Mutual by demanding to know why the company is stalling negotiations at the workers' expense. "Job security, pension and medical benefits are not unreasonable proposals," Hirshenbaum says...
...owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that the federal funds will go mostly to pickers in the form of unemployment compensation, claiming that many workers will stop picking once the pay is available. "With your citrus worker, you put a check in his pocket and he'll come right down off the ladder to spend it," claims Owner George Karst...