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...workers will not be reduced to chattel again. Least of all Teamster chattel. Cesar Chavez asks consumers to unite as never before. No less will cause the growers to grant workers the simple right to vote, by secret ballot, on the union to represent them: the UFW or the Teamsters...
Three years ago a massive consumer boycott dragged growers kicking and screaming into the 20th Century. Now, when the UFW's hard-won contracts are up for renewal along come Teamster honchos who, without a word to the workers, sign a ready-made contract with the growers. That Teamster contract reinstitutes the notorious Labor Contractor hiring system, reduces the workers' already minimal pay, imposes no restrictions on the use of man-killing pesticides and leaves the workers without any effective medical benefits. There are other cruel inadequacies in the Teamsters' sweetheart contract, but that should be enough to make...
Purity Supreme, First National, Star Market, and Stop & Shop stores have agreed to sell only UFW-grown head lettuce, when it is available...
Jones noted that all the arrests--on trespassing charges--of UFW workers within the last two months have ended in acquittals, except a refusal to rule by a Brockton judge. "We spend half our time in the courts, defending ourselves for things that were established years ago," Jones said...
...largest metropolitan food chain, has refused to stop selling lettuce grown under International Brotherhood of Teamsters contracts, which the UFW claims are "sweetheart" pacts...