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...understand why Raza or the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) might have challenged Kovacevich. United Farm Workers (UFW) purported to speak on behalf of Mexican migrant and immigrant grape workers and for improved labor conditions (never mind that most grape workers chose not to join the UFW). It is less clear what motivated groups like UNITE, Education 4 Action, Phillips Brooks House Association, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance, and Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan. (Those last two seem especially peculiar, but hey, why exclude people from the party...
Glickman said farm labor has not been atraditional policy area of the Department ofAgriculture, but said he plans to conduct a jointtour later this year with Secretary of LaborAlexis M. Herman to examine migrant workerconditions...
...third generation of the family to grow grapes in the San Joaquin Valley since his grandfather emigrated from Yugoslavia, says that many people may not realize that his work-force is made up of repeat workers who live in the area-contrary to the popular image of itinerant migrant labor...
...obligations of a life of religious conviction or of privilege. These students often felt that one or another of PBHA's constituent programs went too far: PBHA's Committee on Economic Change aided in the formation of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW); and PBHA's Migrant Farm Workers Committee pushed Harvard Dining Services to boycott grapes...
...care about the migrant grape workers and the dangers of their plight. We affirm our long-standing point of boycotting the California grape industry. Nevertheless, Alexandra McNitt, project manager at HDS, is right on target: "All I do is talk about grapes." We feel the same way. Last week the momentum was high: vigils, debates, posters, buttons--everyone had an opinion. And now that energy has been lost. For this reason we are disappointed with Harvard Dining Service's (HDS) handling of the "Great Grape referendum." We push HDS to keep the best option on the ballot: buying grapes only...