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...main issue in the lettuce boycott is the right of the lettuce pickers to form their own union. The UFW has been trying to organize farm workers in California's Salinas Valley, but lettuce growers have resisted, and have refused to recognize the UFW as the legitimate bargaining representative of the workers...
...conditions the UFW are trying to change are the $1.25 per hour average wage pickers earn, and the lack of any health, education, or housing facilities. Growers have been able to fire workers who objected to the conditions, and draw upon the large pool of unskilled migrant workers, largely Mexican-Americans, to make up their work force...
...this point, Chavez decided to move into Salinas. The UFW began to organize the workers around three points: the recognition of the right of workers to form their own union, the institution of a health care plan, and the increase of the hourly wage...
...officials of the Western Conference of Teamsters met with UFW leaders to discuss the organization of the workers. This meeting produced a jurisdictional pact between the two unions, giving the UFW the exclusive right to organize Salinas field workers and letting the Teamsters represent all warehouses and transportation employees...
...than 5000 of the 7000 farm workers walked off the job, and production of lettuce dropped nearly 70 per cent in the next three weeks. The price of lettuce on the market doubled. This economic pressure caused two large growers. Inter Harvest and Purex to sign contracts with the UFW...