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Thank goodness it's finally over. After tomorrow, we can look forward to a campus discourse free of produce and hopefully we will also have grapes. Don't believe the UFW propaganda. Grape picking may be unpleasant, but it is not criminally exploitative. Further, grapes are safe. There have been no grape-related deaths in recent memory. Vote for grapes...
According to statements released by the Grape Farmers and Workers Coalition (GFWC) in 1989, the five chemicals the United Farm Workers (UFW) protests-dinoseb, parathion, methyl bromide, phosdrin and captan-were either eliminated or scheduled for removal at the time the UFW announced its opposition...
...truly independent organization working to bridge the gap between growers and workers. It is a subsidiary of the Dolphin Group-a consulting firm that has had ties to the Republican party since Reagan was elected Governor of California in 1966, according to Mark Grossman, spokesperson for the UFW. It is only against workers to further the political fortunes of Republican politicians, he said...
...December 1996 press release, the UFW claimed that pesticides were an initial reason for the 1984 boycott. However the grape boycott resolution it released in 1984 does not mention pesticides...
...United Farm Workers (UFW) calls for a national boycott of table grapes, citing low wages for workers and protesting the policies of Republican California Governor George Duekmejian. The boycott is the third the union has called in its history...