Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chavez was not the first to try to organize farm workers. Ineffective efforts to found agricultural unions date back to the turn of the century. But only in Hawaii, where Harry Bridges' tough longshoremen's union used its muscle to win the first farm-labor contract for sugar-cane workers in 1945, did unionization take hold. Agriculture is outside the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, which has provided federal ground rules for industrial workers' unions since 1935; on a national level, there is no similar mechanism for farm workers...
...year. Since the appearance of the fruit affects its value?unlike the case of wine grapes?the bunches must be carefully picked by hand. Because of their vulnerability, Chavez picked the table-grape growers as his first target. In 1966, after a strike, he got his first contract when Schenley Industries capitulated because it had a nationally known name at stake. Later that year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored by the American Arbitration Association. Both Di Giorgio and Schenley have since sold their table-grape holdings, however...
...staff capability of the Housing Authority. The Authority now, with 1700 units to manage and several new programs to initiate, has one less staff member than when it administered a single project. If recruitment is a problem, we can solve it; it staff cannot be found, we can contract for services. The job is there to be done; we must have people...
...table-grape producer with 10% of the crop, also continues to oppose negotiations adamantly, along with many smaller operators. But the union, buoyed by its initial success, is equally determined. Says Union Counsel Jerome Cohen: "We're not going to let up an inch until we have a contract with every single grower in California." Meanwhile, la huelga and el boicoteo will continue...
...some industries by as much as 10%. Gainsbrugh believes that the long boom in capital spending will level off through the year, as businessmen face up to a squeeze on profits and repeal of the 7% investment tax credit, and that by early 1970 such outlays may begin to contract. There is a rather general belief that the economy as a whole may slow down more quickly. President Nixon last week predicted that the restraining effects of the surtax extension would begin to appear "within a matter of two to three months...