Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grape contracts expired, growers signed with the Teamsters, denying the workers any participation in the choice of union representation. Contracts with the Teamsters brought back the notorious labor contractor system, thus doing away with job security, and elminated pesticide controls, medical benefits, and union democracy. When Gallo ignored its workers' wishes and signed with the Teamsters, the workers went out on strike. Gallo had them replaced by strikebreakers and illegal aliens, but even the strikebreakers went out on strike, along with thousands of other workers from other ranches. They were met with intimidation, mass arrests, and violent incidents...
...hard job of rebuilding a nationwide boycott of grapes, lettuce, and Gallo wine began as 600 farmworker families left California for cities like Chicago, New York, and Montreal, to help the boycott organizers tell the story. Two years later the growers were ready to negotiate. Newly-elected Governor Jerry Brown of California brought the growers, Teamsters, and UFW together and hammered out the California Labor Relations Act of 1975, the first piece of collective bargaining legislation for farmworkers in U.S. history. In the first few months, the UFW won 70 per cent of the 200 or so elections held...
...though the number of farms with UFW contracts is growing, the union still represents only a small proportion of the state's agricultural workers. The boycott of non-UFW grapes and head lettuce and Gallo wines continues even though union elections are now protected by California law, because no election law can guarantee contracts. Only 60 of the more than 200 growers at whose ranches UFW won elections last year have signed contracts. In order to achieve decent working conditions, the union must be able to negotiate effective contracts, contracts that ensure a grievance procedure, a living wage, a union...
...group believes it is important to alert students to the ongoing boycott of non-UFW lettuce, grapes and Gallo products because the UFW "efforts in Boston and at Harvard provide the organization and the money that keeps the movement going," Hershenbaum said...
Then the shocks started. Against Southern Connecticut, the best wrestler in the meet, Hofstra's Nick Gallo (142 lbs.), had to forfeit his bout because of an illegal move, and the Owls got a crucial pin at 190 lbs. to clinch an upset over Hofstra...