Word: huelga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly four years ago, Cesar Chavez called la huelga-the strike-against many of California's growers of table grapes, seeking to gain for farm laborers the same rights of union recognition and collective bargaining that industrial workers have long enjoyed. Success at first was minimal. Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee won few contracts with table-grape growers; three of them have subsequently sold out their table-grape vineyards. In 1968, the union called for a nationwide boycott of California grapes, deepening the hostility between union and growers into seemingly hopeless stalemate...
...continues to oppose negotiations adamantly, along with many smaller operators. But the union, buoyed by its initial success, is equally determined. Says Union Counsel Jerome Cohen: "We're not going to let up an inch until we have a contract with every single grower in California." Meanwhile, la huelga and el boicoteo will continue...
After four years of Union Leader Cesar Chavez's celebrated huelga (strike) by California grape pickers, the growers are anxious for federal regulation of union activity in agriculture. Farm workers have always been excluded from coverage by federal labor-relations law. One reason is that farmers are terrified of strikes at harvest time, which would be ruinous. Another rationale for exclusion has been that agricultural employment is so seasonal and transient that farm .workers were not even covered by minimum wage legislation until...
...students) had suspended classes and were on strike. They've been on strike since then and will remain so until a settlement with the government is reached. By August 8, all the schools in Mexico City were on strike. A National Committee of Strike (Consejo Nacional de Huelga) was formed and elections were held on August...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...