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...Coop board of directors voted on January 26 to continue to sell the pants, after meeting with union and Farah representatives...
Employees of the Farah Pant Company have been on strike in El Paso, Texas, since May. Over 80 per cent of them are Mexican-Americans, Carlos Alcala, a first year law student and a spokesman for the Movimento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan (MECDA), said yesterday...
Alcala said that the Coop had reneged on an earlier agreement not to sell Farah pants, and that their recent decision represented a reveral of policy...
Alcala said that his organization has been working closely with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) which has been trying to organize the Farah workers. He said MECDA is considering running a pro-union slate in the next Coop elections...
...said that the Coop carries a tremendous amount of Farah products, and that his union has been able to convince many other large retailers to drop the Farah line...