Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grape Coalition...
According to a fact sheet from the AFL-CIO and the United Farm Workers, grape workers are often exposed to carcinogenic pesticides, forced to work without access to toilets or drinking water and paid less than minimum wage...
...resolution to endorse a "no" vote in next Friday's grape referendum--and continue Harvard Dining Services' boycott of grapes--failed at last night's Undergraduate Council meeting...
...against California's governor at the time. The following year, the boycott campaign expanded to focus on the elimination of pesticides. Working conditions have always been a concern of the UFW, but they were not the original reason for the boycott. Additionally, Stanford University does not currently endorse the grape boycott, as the Crimson staff indicated...
...else, it is not clear what circumstances have changed to warrant this new policy. In a Crimson article of Oct. 28, Mark Grossman, the director of the United Farm Worker's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from 1975-'93, was quoted as saying, "Nothing has changed. Grape workers who have organized under the UFW have been intimidated, physically attacked, and harassed [by] grape growers who refuse to bargain in good faith for union contracts...