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Recently the United Farm Workers boycott campaign has generated a great deal of controversy. The Gallo distributors and liquor stores supporting Gallo insist that the farm workers struggle is a jurisdictional dispute between two unions and that liquor stores have nothing to do with it. It should be clear that more is at stake than a simple tight between unions. An examination of the political and economic factors involved in the unionization drive should clarity the role of the national boycott campaign in promoting a farm workers victory...
California agriculture is dominated by large monopolistic corporations which historically have had ties to conservative politicians, law enforcement agencies, and the courts E & J Gallo Winery fits right into this group. Although most of the company's production, sales and profit statistics are kept secret by the management, it is known that the company produces about one-third of all wine sold in this country. Gallo's pre-tax profits in 1971 reached $35 to $40 million, according to the Nov. 27 1972, issue of Time. Gallo's economic strength makes it possible for the company to recruit and transport...
Recognition of the United Farm Workers union by Gallo Wineries would run counter to the company's interests and would cut into profits, both in the short run (through union demands for higher wages, pensions and benefits) and in the long run (through union demands for employment security, higher health and safety standards and increased worker control over hiring, firing and speed of work). Therefore, Gallo wineries is just acting in its own self-interest--no amount of pleading can convince them that recognition of the UFW is the "right" thing to do. The only way for the farm workers...
...response to Gallo's effort to crush the UFW, the union has called for a national boycott of Gallo wine...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Support Committee supports the boycott of Gallo wines for three main reasons. First, we believe that all workers have a right to choose their own union in free election. Second, we feel that all evidence points to the fact that the UFW is the farm workers' choice. Third, we believe that farm workers should be supported in their-struggle against bad working conditions, poor material benefits, and racism. We have gone to stores in the Harvard Square area, asking them to stop selling Gallo wine, and all have agreed except the Harvard provision Co. The boycott can only...