Word: coachella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale, we showed "Union Maids" and "The Grapes of Wrath" and sponsored a Cinco de Mayo celebration with La Raza. This year the struggle continues; for example we have brought and may again need to bring pressure on Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. which owns a controlling interest in Coachella Growers, who, like Hemmet Wholesale, are refusing to bargain in good faith. The UFW experience certainly changed my viewpoint on farmwork, and agribusiness...
...true purpose of the delegation. Connecticut Mutual, in partnership with the California-based Desert Valley Citrus Corporation, has a controlling interest in a major grape-produceg in California at whose farm the UFW won a state-sponsored, union representational election in 1975. Since that time, this grape-producer, the Coachella Growers Company (CGC), has refused to negotiate a contract with the UFW. Therefore, members of the H-R UFW Support Committee went to Connecticut Mutual's Boston office to urge Connecticut Mutual to pressure CGC to enter into serious negotiations with...
...Desert Valley packaging company buys fruit from Coachella Growers, which employ 450 workers represented...
...series of negotiations held over the past year, Coachella turned down UFW proposals for adequate medical and pension plans, transportation to and from the ranch and a grievance procedure...
Connecticut Mutual is not involved in daily supervision of the negotiations between the farmworkers and Coachella growers, Robert Stevens, vice president of the insurance company, said yesterday...