Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after all, his parents were grape pickers back in California. The friend said the cartoon was appropriate for Paco, so he had hung it on his wall next to the stark black eagle of UFW union seal. He used to chuckle at it every now and then without really knowing...
First, the article neglected to mention the 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...
July of 1970 marked the first major successful effort of agricultural labor organizing in this country. The UFW culminated a five year campaign that year when it convinced the bulk of California's table grape growers to sign contracts giving the union representation over the tiny percentage of farmworkers who toil in the grape vineyards. The international grape boycott was over. The triumph belonged to the hundreds of thousands of boycott supporters and to the farmworkers, who now had a realization that they did have power over their lives and working conditions...
...when a number of the UFW 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...
...President's defense in a Miami Herald interview. As Graham reads his well-worn Bible, there is no doubt that "Jesus drank wine." After all, he miraculously turned six huge jars of water into wine at the wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11). "That wasn't grape juice, as some of them try to claim," added Graham...