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...union battle in the December/January issue of Ramparts. David B. Castro is the secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters' farmworkers' union Local 1973 in Salinas, California, and according to George Baker's article, "The Teamster Raid: Stalled in the Vineyards," he is the symbol of the real struggle between the UFW and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Castro is portrayed as a slick image-conscious operator who feels that if his underlings can't "sell me, I'll lose the [possible union] election." Baker avoids the simplistic statistical approach, the numbers game of wages and benefits in terms of hard cash...
...cannot in clear conscience continue reading the pro-UFW rebuttals directed at Peter Ferrara's article entitled "Has Chavez Fooled Harvard" without making a stand supporting his article. I was very pleased to see his article and equally perturbed to read all of the attacks against it--with each different reply coming up with their own figures supporting their own beliefs...
...Salinas Valley produces about 95 per cent of the nation's lettuce during its growing season (mid-May to early October) and the Teamsters have contracts with every lettuce grower in the valley save one: Interharvest Co., the largest of all, has a UFW contract...
...year as the earnings of full-time Gallo workers, Mr. Ferrara once again neglects to mention that these workers are under Teamsters contract. He also fails to mention that when that contract was first signed, the Gallo workers walked out because of their support of the UFW, and that this September the scabs who were brought in to replace them walked out on the grounds that the Teamsters were not enforcing the provisions of their contract. The wage figures Mr. Ferrara cites are only meaningful as long as the Teamsters are willing to enforce them, and so far their record...
...symptom of pesticide poisoning (California state study, reported in Fresno Bee, 9/26/69). Few have sanitary toilets or safe drinking water at work (Congressional Record, 7/20/70). Their life expectancy is only 49 years, 23 less than the national average (U.S. Public Health Service). And except for those workers covered by UFW contracts, they have no method to change these conditions except for the strike and the boycott. Steven Carlip